Färjestad Karlstad held on to earn a 6-4 victory over Tappara Tampere. Both teams had trouble staying out of the box, and the resulting powerplays were a deciding factor in this ten-goal game.

A long shift for Tappara in their zone gave the Swedes some space to work with and Jonathan Andersson used the opportunity to take a shot from the right point that made its way through traffic and past Juha Metsola to open the scoring at 11:14.

A one-goal first turned into a six-goal second as both sides were guilty of several penalties leading to several powerplay tallies in the middle frame.

First, it was Färjestad notching two powerplay goals on the same man-advantage to extend their lead. David Tomasek kick-started the scoring with a superb individual effort that saw the forward deke around a pair of defenders before tucking it home past Metsola to make it 2-0. Moments later, it was Axel Bergkvist producing his second of the season when he cleaned up a rebound at the near post to give his club their third goal of the game.

Then on their fifth man-advantage of the night, Tappara answered with two powerplay tallies of their own to close the goal gap to one.

Both were redirections with the first coming off of Aleksi Mustonen's skate when Kristian Tanus slid the puck towards the top of the crease. Julius Mattila was the recipient of the second deflection when he directed the towards traffic and it bounced off a player in front and past a sprawling Damian Clara.

Tappara continued to claw their way back and Tanus found himself on the scoresheet a third time when he tied the contest, pouncing on a loose puck and firing a wicked wrister from the slot near the midway mark of the second.

But the visitors would evenutally reclaim the lead when a fortuitous deflection found the stick of August Tornberg who slid it into the net from between the hashmarks to make it 4-3.

Färjestad's penalty kill came up big time when they netted a short-handed tally courtesy of Joel Kellman who tipped in a nifty no-look feed from Joakim Nygård at 49:30 to take a two-goal lead.

Then, Tappara closed the deficit again, securing their fourth when Petteri Puhakka received a perfect sauce pass from Oiva Keskinen, skated through the hash marks and found room on the glove side.

But an empty-netter from Nygård was enough to seal the Swedes' victory over the Finns and give Färjestad a 4-0 record to start the 2024/25 season.