HIFK Helsinki left Vaasa with a 3-2 overtime win, the kind of game decided by a single possession after sixty minutes produced nothing separating the teams. The visitors scored the only goal of the extra period to settle it.
HIFK took the first period 1-0 and led 0-1 after twenty minutes. Sport answered with the only goal of the middle frame to make it 1-1 through forty, and the teams traded one each in the third to go to overtime at 2-2 — that third-period exchange was the turning point, because neither side could build a cushion.
The decisive number is the margin: one goal in overtime, with the scoring split evenly across regulation. Scoring details for this one are incomplete, so the only firm line is the 2-2 regulation deadlock and HIFK's finish in the extra session.