Matchday 1 in the Champions Hockey League as the Steelers travel to Frolunda.
Frolunda Gothenburg – 9
Henrik Tommernas - 1st (PP), 3rd, 3rd (PP)
Mats Rosseli-Olsen - 2nd (SH)
Artturi Lehkonen - 3rd
Patrik Karlsson - 3rd (PP)
Robin Figren - 3rd (PP)
Johan Sundstom - 3rd
Sebastian Stalberg - 3rd (PP)
Sheffield Steelers– 1
Colton Fretter - 3rd (PS)
Steelers made their Champions Hockey League debut against one of the best teams in Europe and they certainly held their own in the first 40 minutes of the contest. It took until 17:10 for the home side to take the lead while on the man advantage Henrik Tommernas opened the scoring with an absolute bullet from the blue line that took a slight touch of the stick of Mosienko and it just beat Tyler Plante despite the Steelers netminders getting some on it. Steelers gave there absolute everything and were unlucky not to go into the break all square but Frolunda went in leading 1-0.
Steelers carried on where they left off after the break but at time just couldn't find that one bounce but while short handed it was Frolunda who struck again at 25:19. When Tyler Plante tried to play the puck out but Jace Coyle was the unfortunate one caught with the turnover and Mats Rosseli-Olsen picked up the puck before creeping it through the legs of Plante on the backhand. Steelers carried to press and defend as a unit but went into the second intermission 2-0 down but the way they had played at the moment they certainly didn't look out of place against Frolunda.
Into the third period and the floodgates opened and the home side scored a 3rd goal at 41:49 when a shot deflected out to the stick of Artturi Lehkonen and he nicely slotted his shot past Plante at his near post. It was soon 4-0 and we was treated to what was possibly the goal of the night when Tommernas skated behind the Steelers goal before finishing of a beautiful wrap around at 43:35. Straight off the face-off Nelson ended up sitting for four minutes and it was 5-0 at 44:18 when Tommernas shot from the blue and Patrik Karlsson perfectly re-directed it past the Steelers netminders and still on the power play. It was 6-0 at 45:01 when Frolunda showed hockey at it's finest when Robin Figren had the puck laid on a plate in front of goal and he coolly lifted it over the glove of Plante. It was 7-0 at 47:42 and another unlucky bounce for the Steelers this time a shot deflected of the skate of Ben O'Connor and as Plante went one way Johan Sundstrom finished it into the open net. At 50:59 Steelers were given the opportunity to make history when Fretter was taken out on a breakaway and was awarded a penalty shot by the officials, Colton Fretter also took the shot and performed a beautiful toe drag to beat Johansson top shelf to score the Steelers first ever goal in the CHL to send the travelling fans mental despite still being down 7-1. It was 8-1 at 55:03 when Tommernas completed his hat-trick with a bullet of a slap shot that went in off the post on the man advantage. The home side finished of the scoring at 59:08 again on the man advantage when Sebastian Stalberg fired a sweet wrist shot to beat Plante from the slot to give Frolunda a 9-1 victory.
FINAL SCORE: Frolunda Gothenburg 9–1 Sheffield Steelers
It's safe to say poor discipline was the downfall of the Steelers and it's something Paul Thompson certainly needs to address ahead of Saturdays trip over to Finland to face JYP Jyvaskyla in our second CHL game. If we play like we did for the first 40 minutes on Saturday and address the number of poor penalties taken there is no reason we cant go and take a point or two back to Sheffield with us. Next game then is Saturday versus JYP Jyvaskyla with 3pm face-off UK TIME.
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