Brûleurs de Loups Grenoble won 3-1 at HC Briançon in regulation, and the margin came entirely in the final minutes. Two Grenoble goals in the 57th minute broke a tie that had held for nearly two full periods.
Briançon opened the scoring in the 9th minute after Grenoble had already struck inside the opening minute, and the teams went to the first intermission level at 1-1. The middle period produced nothing on the scoreboard, 0-0, with the game still 1-1 after 40 minutes. The turning point was the 57th minute, when Grenoble scored twice to turn a one-goal game into a 1-3 final.
The defining number is the third period: 0-2. Grenoble needed only those two late strikes, having been held without a goal for the 48 minutes between its opening-minute marker and the 57th.