MODO had a great situation to decide in the extension when the game turned and André Petersson ran through and put 4-3 distinct and great joy erupted in the hall this late hour.
– I know how Joey Laleggia plays and that he sees me if I stick, says match winner André Petersson to SVT Sport and thanks for the opening pass that cut like a hot knife through all the butter in Småland.
HV seemed to sail away when led by 3-1 in the middle of the second period but instead Modo joined together and reduced both 3-2 and acknowledged to 3-3 and took the match to an extension.
“HV71 was completely finished”
When Modo was on the hardest in the extension, the judge team blew off to check out a possible expulsion for Modo. However, it was an HV player who injured himself at the teammate’s club.
– Nobody in HV had any cream left and no one got the eye out. HV wanted a break and got it. It was no deportation. We got annoyed, Karlin tells SVT Sport.
The judicial team acknowledged that it was wrong but that the regulations were followed.
-I was told in our system that it was a high club by a Modo player. We blew off and video viewed and then we saw that it was a HV71 player club and removed the expulsion. We do everything we can to make it as fair as possible but are only people, says judge Mikael Holm in TV4.
It was Modo that had especially the third period and the extension but HV71 stuck up and could decide.
It is now 2-2 in the series in the best of seven matches that now turn to Ö-vik.
See also: André Petersson shoots the victory to HV71