With an incredible display of offence in the second period, especially on the powerplay, Skellefteå AIK won 4-1 over ZSC Lions Zurich to win the Round of 16 matchup 9-5 on aggregate and advance to the Quarter-Finals. They went 3-for-4 on the powerplay, which started the game at 29.03% in the Champions Hockey League. Max Lindholm assisted on all three goals.

After a nine-goal outburst in the First Game, these teams settled down and played a defensive first period, with no goals and Zurich holding a 7-4 edge in shots. In the second period, however, the offence ramped back up with four goals, all on powerplays.

On their first two powerplays of the game, Skellefteå scored twice to take a three-goal stranglehold on aggregate. First it was Filip Sandberg after working a give-and-go with Lindholm on a rush into the zone. The second one was a shot by Lindholm that was re-directed in front by Andreas Wingerli at 25:49.

Just past the game’s midpoint, Zurich cut into the deficit on their second powerplay of the game, with Chris Baltisberger at the side of the net finishing off a nice tic-tac-toe passing play that had Linus Söderström sliding back and forth. But a few minutes later, Yannick Weber was called for closing his hand on the puck and Pär Lindholm made him pay, sweeping in a loose puck in the crease with Max Lindholm (no relation) picking up his third powerplay assist.

Early in the third period, Zurich thought they had got one back on another powerplay, with the players raising their sticks but the referee signalling no goal. More than three minutes later, at the next whistle, replays showed that the shot from Lucas Wallmark incredibly hit the left post, crossbar and right post but stayed out.

Trailing by three on aggregate, that was a break that Zurich needed but it was the Skellefteå defence and Söderström that shone the rest of the way, with Rickard Hugg rounding out the scoring with an empty-net goal.