HC Oceláři Třinec went into Olomouc and left with a 9-0 win in regulation, a shutout built on a four-goal middle period that turned a manageable deficit into a blowout. Nine different lines of the scoresheet, nine goals, and no answer from the home side across 60 minutes.
Martin Růžička opened it at 14 minutes and Martin Marincin, set up by Petr Chlan, made it 0-2 at 18 for a two-goal cushion after the first. The second period decided it: David Musil (Ondřej Kovarčik) at 21, Milos Roman at 26, Filip Pyrochta at 28 and Marian Adámek at 31 pushed it to 0-6, and Daniel Kurovsky at 45, Kovarčik at 51 and Libor Hudáček at 54 closed out a 0-9 final.
Kovarčik finished with a goal and two assists, both of his helpers coming in that decisive second period, while Růžička had a goal and an assist on the Roman and Kovarčik markers. Nine goals from nine different scorers is the number that frames this one.