Tappara Tampere beat Rögle Ängelholm for the very first time in the Champions Hockey League to secure a place in the Semi-Finals. The Finns eliminated the reigning CHL Champions with a big 5-1 win in front of their home crowd, scoring two empty-net goals and racking up more shots on goal than the Swedes who wave farewell to their chances of defending their title.

Both teams tested each other out in a carefully played first period. There were chances for both teams, but Tappara were the more active in testing Christoffer Rifalk in net for the away team. Ex-Rögle player Valtteri Kemiläinen was called for slashing at 19:17, offering the Swedes a chance to test their special units at the end of the first, and very beginning of the second period, but to no avail. 

Just minutes after Rögle's powerplay ended, an unmarked Jori Lehterä fired the puck in from within the crease after receiving a pass from his teammates from behind the net to break the deadlock and, most importantly, level the aggregate score at 3-3. 

It would take 15 more minutes for the second goal of the game to come and it would again be Tappara who would see their name light up on the board when Veli-Matti Savinainen scored his side's second of the game to go one goal up in the series. The Finnish forward picked up a pass in front of the Rögle net and fired it in glove-side from a sharp angle.

Rögle, who were losing in their Quarter-Finals series for the very first time, tied the aggregate score 4-4 before the two teams headed for the locker rooms when the Swedish team's fourth-liner Adam Edström tested Christian Heljanko from long range. The puck flew through some traffic and hit the back of the home team's net for the first, and only, time on the night.

The third period was Tappara's from start to finish. Niko Ojamäki scored the go-ahead goal on the powerplay at 53:19 after some serious pressure on the Rögle net, before adding an empty-netter not five minutes later. Savinainen scored his second goal of the game, and the second empty-netter for that matter, when he guided the puck to the empty away team net in the final minute of the game to finalise the score at 5-1 and 7-4 on aggregate to the loud cheer of Tappara's faithful.