The former striker of Toronto, New Jersey and San Jose, with a bit of exaggeration, even caused a fire alarm on the Czechs, which interrupted the match for ten minutes in the third period.
“It must have been caused by some Czech who was smoking in the toilet. That was the first thing that came to mind,” laughed Johnson in an interview with Expressen newspaper.
Before the break, the Steelers held a promising 2:3, but after the forced break, they definitively broke the home fight for the quarter-finals in their favor. It was Johnson who, with his second point for an assist in the first game for Skelleftea, helped Lindholm to complete his hat trick with a power-play shot to make it 4:2.
“It’s great to score points, but I’m most happy to win and advance,” Johnson relished.
“I don’t want to make excuses for the forced break at all, everyone has to prepare for it somehow. A good team can do it,” Třinec coach Zdeněk Moták did not look for an alibi in an interview for the club’s website.
Elias Salomonsson put the stamp on the progress of the Swedish vice-champion after a shot from the blue. Emotions bubbled up immediately after the final siren, when the players engaged each other at the goalpost and then also before the final handshake.
“This is typically Czech or Slovak. Once they’re down, they start throwing punches instead of saving them for the duration of the match,” Johnson complained.
Skelleftea will face another Swedish team, Färjestad, in the quarter-finals, which eliminated the Swiss Biel.
2023-11-22 08:40:40
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