Facts: This is how the semi-finals are decided
+ Skellefteå–Örebro 0–1.
3/4, match 2: Örebro–Skellefteå, 5/4, match 3: Skellefteå–Örebro, 7/4, match 4: Örebro–Skellefteå, possibly 9/4, match 5: Skellefteå–Örebro, possibly 11/4, match 6: Örebro–Skellefteå, possibly 13/4, match 7: Skellefteå–Örebro.
+ Växjö–Frölunda 1–0.
2/4, match 2: Frölunda–Växjö, 4/4, match 3: Växjö–Frölunda, 6/4, match 4: Frölunda–Växjö, possible 8/4, match 5: Växjö–Frölunda, possible 10/4, match 6: Frölunda–Växjö, possibly 12/4, match 7: Växjö–Frölunda.
It was the young people who lifted Örebro.
18-year-old talent Leo Carlsson, who scored the 2-2 goal, pulled the attack to the game-winning 3-2 goal where 20-year-old Milton Oscarsson hit the final pass to 22-year-old Öberg who scored his fifth goal of the playoffs.
Thus, Örebro’s turnaround from a 1–2 deficit was complete and Skellefteå’s home ground advantage was wiped out directly in the first match.
Robert Leino and William Wikman added a goal each to an empty box when Skellefteå picked out goalkeeper Linus Söderström.
Chasing the first final
Skellefteå, the series runner-up who knocked out Rögle in the quarter-finals, is chasing its first SC final since 2018 after the previous years basically subscribed to final places and won two golds.
Örebro, which needed seven games to knock out Timrå, has never reached a SM final series.
It was the home team that took the lead when defender Oskar Nilsson intercepted the puck, which was stuck in front of the goal, and outwitted Örebro goalkeeper Jhonas Enroth.
The first period belonged to the home team, so the equalizer came unexpectedly. Only 14 seconds remained when Örebrobacken Rasmus Rissanen, who had found a senseless goal form, equalized on his own rebound.
The talent stepped forward
Oscar Möller gave Skellefteå the lead again in numerical superiority in the second period, but a goal after a strange sequence by the super talent Leo Carlsson, 18, gave a draw again.
Both the home team’s goalkeeper Linus Söderström and defender Linus Högberg had lost their clubs when Andreas Wingerli and Elias Salomonsson collided in their own zone. It was free for Linus Öberg, who played Carlsson, who shot into the roof of the net.
— It got a bit strange there, I see two falling on top of each other. I had in the back of my mind that he (goalkeeper Linus Söderström) didn’t have a stick, just put it on the roof, says Leo Carlsson to C More.
It was the talent’s first career playoff goal after a game in which he was prominent and had a solo raid in the first period where he came close to scoring.