Frolunda Gothenburg put on an impressive display to humble Eisbaren Berlin in the German capital. Read more in Gamecentre.

by Luke Fisher

Defending CHL champions Frolunda Gothenburg are in firm control of their Round of 16 series with Eisbaren Berlin after a huge road win, taking a five-goal lead home with them. They won 6-1 thanks to three-point efforts from Cramo Top Scorer Casey Wellman and team captain Joel Lundqvist.

The visiting Indians started much better with a couple of early chances, including Rasmus Dahlin hitting the post inside the opening five minutes. Berlin did have their chance to open the scoring, as Kyle Wilson came in unmarked at the back post only for Johan Gustafsson to deny him with a great leg save. It wasn't long, however, until Frolunda did take the lead – Sebastian Stalberg the scorer at 5:49. Simon Hjalmarsson hit the post shortly before Frolunda doubled their lead – Lundqvist striking on the power play at 11:02.

"I think we played a pretty solid game," Lundqvist understated after the game. "It's always good to have some extra goals for the next game too, so overall a pretty good game for us."

The Eisbaren however didn't give up on the period, Sven Ziegler coming in 1-on-0 and wristing high over Gustafsson to half the deficit, but Frolunda weren't done in the opening stanza either. Wellman was left unmarked at the far post to fire it in with 18:06 played.

Period two saw Frolunda with long spells camped in the Eisbaren zone. The only goal of the period came with 27:36 played, Lundqvist again the scorer to make it 4-1 – a lead the Indians took into the final period – although they almost doubled it, only for Victor Olofsson's shot to come back off the crossbar.

The last 20 minutes Frolunda were in cruise control, but weren't done scoring. Christoffer Ehn skated from his own blue line before pulling a move on Petri Vehanen to make it 5-1 at 45:56. It got worse for the hosts just over two minutes later, with Johan Sundstrom making it 6-1 at 48:19.

At that point Vehanen pulled himself on that goal, with Marvin Cuepper coming into the net. The new man in net managed to keep the puck out for the remainder of the game, but despite a couple of half-chances for the Eisbaren, it was Frolunda who held on for a huge 6-1 road win.

"It's absolutely our goal for the season to win this league again and I really like the way we performed today," said Frolunda coach Roger Ronnberg. On the return game back home he said, "We have to stay humble and we have to continue playing good hockey, so if we play the next game as effectively as we did today we should be fine."