HC Motor Ceske Budejovice won 4-3 in Liberec, in regulation, after trailing in each of the first two periods and taking the game over in the third. The visitors scored the only goal of the final frame to finish it off.
Liberec took a 2-1 edge through 20 minutes, with goals at the 9th and 13th minutes around a Motor reply at the 11th. Motor answered at the 25th, Liberec restored the cushion at the 31st for 3-2 after two, and the visitors tied it at the 48th before completing the comeback in the third.
The number that frames it: 0-1 in the third period. Motor went unanswered after the second intermission, the only period either side kept clean, and that was the difference in a one-goal road win.