Swedish teams hit 10 goals without reply in today's first two Champions Hockey League matches!
Skelleftea AIK 4–0 KalPa Kuopio
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Skelleftea made their passage to the Round of 32 look easy with a comfortable 4-0 home win over KalPa Kuopio. After a goalless first period, Niclas Burstrom gave the hosts the lead shortly before the middle break. In the final period, goals from Top Scorer Andrew Calof, Pontus Petterstrom, and Emil Peterson secured the win.
"It was a tough game. Skelleftea are a good team, they they played well and didn't give us a chance to win. We spent 10 hours on the bus yesterday and looked tired today, but they were a good team," admitted KalPa head coach Pekka Virta after the game. "We'll keep working, rest, and get ready for the next game. Skelleftea play a very tight defence, and it is tough to score goals against them."
Djurgarden Stockholm 6–0 HC Davos
HC Davos suffered a hammering in Stockholm as Djurgarden ran out 6-0 winners over the NLA team – making them just the second team from Switzerland to lose in the CHL this season. Jeff Tambellini hit four for the home side, all on the power play, as Gustav Possler and Carl Ridderwall added the others.
"It was a tight game at the start so it was good to get the lead," Tambellini said afterwards. "Our young player Jusso made a nice play for the second one, he found me there at the side of the net, so it was good to get ahead of them right away and get them behind the eight-ball. We were focusing on our start and were lucky to be up 2-0 after a period."
On the other side of the ice, a blanking away from home was not what HC Davos were expecting – or wanted to give their vocal travelling support. "6-0... it's a bad feeling. Djurgarden were 100% ready, they played very well, and we played like we did in the Semi-Finals last year – we just didn't show up. We had chances, but we instead of being efficient and scoring goals we tried to play too nice. You can't make pretty goals, you have to get some dirty ones," said a visibly disappointed Arno del Curto, the HC Davos head coach. "This is our problem, I've told the players about it and we need to start getting players to the net. We have to learn."