Skellefteå AIK beat the Malmö Redhawks 4-3 in overtime, settled 62 minutes in after the visitors had wiped out a one-goal deficit in the third. Five of the night's six regulation goals came in a middle period that broke open a scoreless opening 20.
Nothing separated the teams through one. Oscar Lindberg opened at 26 minutes off a Jonathan Johnson feed, Carl Persson answered inside the same minute, and Oliwer Kaski put Malmö ahead at 30 before Lindberg's second (Jonathan Pudas) and Mikkel Aagaard's goal at 39 (Viktor Grahn) made it 3-2 after two. Kaski's second at 51 forced the extra period, and Skellefteå finished it at 62.
Lindberg's two goals were the difference-maker on a night when Kaski matched him with two for Malmö, including an assist on Persson's equalizer — and the Redhawks still left with nothing. Skellefteå scored three times in the second period and once in overtime; the away side's only lead lasted four minutes.