HC Kralupy won 3-1 at HC Vrchlabi in regulation, closing out the game by scoring the last three goals after a 1-1 first period. The visitors took the lead in the middle period and never gave it back.
Vrchlabi scored in the sixth minute, Kralupy answered in the 15th, and the teams went to the first intermission level at 1-1. The second period was the turning point: Kralupy scored in the 39th minute to go up 1-2, then added another at the 40th for 1-3, a two-goal swing inside about a minute of play.
The decisive number is the period split — Kralupy took the final two periods 1-0 and 1-0 while Vrchlabi were shut out after the opening frame. Scorers were not recorded, but all three Kralupy goals came in the second half of the game.
