“Rögle is a really good team, so I’m glad we won,” Tomášek said in a post-game television interview with TV4, according to Hockeynews.se.

TV4 studio analyst and former NHL defenseman Staffan Kronwall then joked that, after scoring four goals in his first game of the season, Tomášek is on pace to score 208 goals in 52 games.

“Sorry to disappoint you,” Tomášek laughed.

Tomášek, 28, is starting his second season with Färjestad – last season he had 25 goals in 45 points, playing in all 52 regular-season games. He also scored one goal in four playoff games as Färjestad – who finished first overall in the standings – was swept by ninth-seeded Rögle in the quarterfinals. This win, therefore, was a bit of revenge.

Tomášek played three seasons of youth hockey in Michigan and then played for the OHL’s Belleville Bulls for two seasons, but all of his professonal career has been in Europe – in Finland with JYP, in Russia with Amur Khabarovsk, in his native Czechia with Dynamo Pardubice and Sparta Prague, and now in Sweden with Färjestad.

After being a member of Czechia’s gold-medal winning team on home ice at this spring’s IIHF World Championship, Tomášek was apparently close to an NHL deal this off-season. Instead, he ended up re-signing with Färjestad for two years, but his contract includes an escape clause should he come to terms with an NHL team next summer.

“It was an extremely short summer, celebrating after the World Championship gold and I also got married,” Tomášek continued in the interview. “It was busy and I was a bit worried, but I made the most of the six or seven weeks I had.”

Asked when the last time he scored four goals in a game was, he answered, “Maybe when I was eight or nine years old. Of course it’s special and I’m very grateful. It was a team victory. It’s just a matter of continuing – there are 51 games left.”