Bílí Tygři Liberec edged Herning Blue Fox in a shootout after 60 minutes and overtime finished 1-1. The skills competition went 1-0 to the hosts, the only separation in a game that offered almost none.
The opening period was scoreless before Jakub Rychlovsky, set up by Martin Fasko-Rudas, put Liberec ahead at 21 minutes. Herning's answer took until the 60th, when Mathias Bau Hansen converted a Kevin O'Neil feed to force overtime — the turning point that cost Liberec a regulation win. The extra period produced nothing on either side.
Two goals across 65 minutes tells the story: Rychlovsky's marker and Bau Hansen's late equalizer, then a shootout that Liberec won 1-0. In a match that tight, the goaltending at both ends carried it to the tiebreaker.