HC Sparta Prague U20 beat HC Skoda Plzen U20 6-2 in regulation, and the margin was built almost entirely in the third period. Through 40 minutes this was a one-goal game; over the final 20 it stopped being a game at all.
Sparta took a 1-0 lead through the first and was still only ahead 2-1 after the second, Plzen matching them 1-1 in the middle frame. The turning point was the intermission that followed: Sparta won the third period 4-1 to close it out at 6-2.
The number that defines the night is four — Sparta's third-period goal total, two-thirds of its output in a third of the game. Plzen's two goals came in different periods and never got the visitors level.