One goal in 15 games in the regular season, zero in the first two quarterfinals. But in the third quarter-final against Björklöven, it came loose for Victor Eklund.
The 17-year-old talent accounted for two complete hits as Djurgården won 4–3. He started by taking a lap around the Björklöven zone, and then getting a half-hit on the puck that produced a rebound that he got into the goal from the extended goal line. The goal meant 1–0 for the visitors at the start of the second period, which would manage to make it 3–0 before the period was over.
And it was Eklund who ended the scoring in the period when, in a turning of the game, he fired a distinct shot into the right crossbar.
Djurgården eventually won the match, but it was a long way off. Because in the third period the team lost the entire 3–0 lead and the match went to extra time, where they would however manage to win.
There it was Emil Berglund who barely nine minutes into extra time managed to make it 4-3 to Djurgården.
– It’s hard to complain. If you had to choose, you would have taken 3-0, says Berglund to TV4 Play about the team going from 3-0 in matches.
3–0 also to Karlskoga
Even between Karlskoga and Södertälje it is 3-0 in matches. That after Karlskoga won after extra time for the third game in a row. Kalle Jellvert got about two minutes into the second overtime period and stepped onto the right wing and finished himself.
– I sat in the booth and thought that now I will go out and come up with something, says the hero of the match to TV4 Play.