It was indeed a round where most of the top teams played away, but the outcome in Saturday's SHL ice hockey was still something out of the ordinary.
In all arenas, the away teams could celebrate their respective three-pointers. The seven home teams managed to scrape together only five goals – while there were a total of 25 goal celebrations for the away teams.
The anger was great in some places, not least in Jönköping where the bottom team HV71 was zeroed (0–5) by Rögle.
We must grind in some pucks. We will not make any nice goals. The matches are decided in front of the goal and right now we are losing those duels. We have done it far too much now, so to be completely honest, I'm damn furious, says HV71 defender Niklas Hansson in TV4's broadcast according to Aftonbladet.
Even the reigning champions in Luleå were goalless in the 0–3 meeting against Frölunda. Jere Innala shot all three goals for the league leader from Göteborg.
All the results: Brynäs-Färjestad 1–3, Malmö-Växjö 2–4, Linköping-Skellefteå 0–4, Timrå-Örebro 1–3, Luleå-Frölunda 0–3, HV71-Rögle 0–5, Leksand-Djurgården 1–3.
