Dusseldorfer EG handled Blue Devils Weiden 5-1 in regulation, and the result was effectively settled in a four-goal middle period. The hosts built the game from a single-goal first period and then pulled away before the second intermission.
Dusseldorf took the opening frame 1-0, a narrow margin that undersold the shape of the night. The second period was the turning point: four goals for the home side against one in reply made it 5-1 after 40 minutes, and the third period finished scoreless.
The standout number is that middle 20 minutes — a 4-1 period swing that accounted for every goal Weiden managed and most of what Dusseldorf needed. With nothing added in the third, the hosts were content to manage a four-goal cushion to the final horn.