Sheffield Steelers bowed out of this season's Champions Hockey League with a famous win over Red Bull Salzburg. Read more in Gamecentre.

Already confirmed of their place in the next round, Red Bull took the lead early on in Sheffield. Again down to four skaters – their problem throughout most of this year's tournament – Sheffield were punished as John Hughes capitalized with the extra man at 6:55. To their credit, Sheffield bound straight back, with Jesse Schultz tying the game at 7:27 to get the home side back in it. A two minute frenzy of scoring was completed by Manuel Latusa, who put the visitors back ahead at 6:58 to cap off a packed opening session to the game.

Into the middle period and despite penalties on both sides the score stayed at 2-1 to the visitors. Salzburg opted to switch netminder halfway through the period, with Berhard Startbaum being replaced by Slovenian Luka Gracnar at the 30:55 mark. And it wasn't long before Gracnar was scooping the puck out of his net – 34:50 played when Schultz strict again for the home side to tie the game. As the period picked down, Sheffield got their reward for the hard battle in the middle 20, with Rob Dowd finding the back of Gracnar's net with just two seconds left on the clock to put the Steelers a goal ahead going into the last 20 minutes.

Sheffield, without a point in the CHL before tonight, stepped on to the ice for the third period with a chance to create a it of Steelers' history, and were energetic from the outset. They doubled their lead at 44:34, shorthanded, when Markus Nilsson and Luke Ferrera broke out 2-on-1, with Nilsson setting up Ferrara beautifully to fire into the gaping goal. Just over three minutes later the 4,178 fans inside the Sheffield arena were in raptures as Jesse Schultz fired passed Gracnar on a breakaway to put the Steelers 5-2 up and complete his hat-trick.

The closing stages saw Salzburg pull the goalie in an attempt to salvage a point, but they were unable to create much in the way of good chances and Sheffield saw out the game to record a famous 5-2 win.

"We showed what we are about tonight," said a proud Steelers' coach Paul Thompson after the game. "We let ourselves down in Austria and wanted to put that right tonight, we bounced back and showed the team that we are so credit to the boys. Every time you go to Europe you play the best teams in Europe – Red Bull are one of them, HV71 are another, and you become better by playing better teams. We'd have liked to have moved on in the competition, but every year we're getting closer."

"Sheffield played a really good game. A couple of times we made a few mistakes – the capitalized and scored some good goals. I think we have a lot of new players in our team, we're a work in progress, we had a good game in Jonkoping and have to learn to always play the game in the correct way – tonight we didn't and Sheffield capitalized," said Red Bull's coach Greg Poss, before looking ahead to the next round. "It's really important to throw everything at whoever we play in the next round – but it's a six-period game, you can't panic and have to stick with it."