HC Aosta won 5-2 at HC Valpellice in regulation, and the third period settled it. The visitors scored three unanswered-in-balance goals in the final frame to turn a one-goal lead into a comfortable finish.
Aosta struck inside the opening two minutes and led 0-1 after twenty. Valpellice answered early in the middle period to make it 1-2 after forty, but Aosta scored again before the second break and then went to work in the third, where the period read 1-3 and the running line moved to 2-5.
The number that frames it: per-period scoring of 0-1, 1-1, 1-3. Valpellice matched Aosta only in the second; once the game opened up after the 41st minute, the away side closed it out without needing overtime.