EK Zell am See handled EC Die Adler Kitzbuhel 6-1 in regulation, and the margin was built on an even distribution of work: two goals in each of the three periods. Nothing about it needed a late swing — the hosts led after every intermission.
The first period closed 2-0, with both goals landing late in the frame around the 18-minute mark. Zell am See then pushed it to 4-1 in the second, scoring at 26 and 27 minutes before Kitzbuhel answered at 36 for its only goal of the night. The third followed the same pattern: a goal at 44 and another at 60 for the 6-1 final.
The telling number is the period-by-period split — 2-0, 2-1, 2-0 — a team that never let the game settle into a single stretch of pressure. Kitzbuhel's lone marker at 36 minutes was the only point in 60 minutes where the visitors cut into the deficit, and Zell am See restored the gap within the next eight minutes of play.