HC Vitkovice Steel U20 took a 3-2 decision at Rytiri Kladno U20, and the middle period was the whole game. Three unanswered goals in the second built the margin Kladno could not quite erase in regulation.
The first period was scoreless, both sides trading zone time without breaking through. Vitkovice then ran off a 3-0 second to lead 3-0 through 40 minutes, and Kladno's 2-0 third — the only period they won — got them within one but no closer.
The decisive number is the second-period split: 3-0 for the visitors, the only frame either team scored more than the other by more than two. Kladno outscored Vitkovice 2-0 over the final 20 and still came up a goal short at 2-3.