HC Kosice beat HK Dukla Michalovce 6-3 in regulation, and the game was effectively settled inside the opening 20 minutes. Three unanswered goals in the first period gave the hosts a cushion they never surrendered.
Eduard Sedivy opened it in the 11th minute off a Alexei Dakhnovsky feed, Radek Deyl made it 2-0 in the 16th (Jozef Balaz), and Tomas Mikus pushed it to 3-0 in the 18th on a Mislav Rosandic assist. Michalovce answered through Milan Kytnar in the 20th and Igor Safaraleev in the 22nd to get within 3-2, but Patrik Lamper restored the two-goal margin in the 24th and Simon Jellus, set up by Tomas Jurco, made it 5-2 in the 30th. The visitors added one more in the 57th, with Kosice closing the third for a 6-3 final.
The period splits tell the story: 3-1, 2-1, 1-1 — Michalovce matched the hosts after the first intermission but never clawed back the opening-period deficit. Six different Kosice scorers, with Jurco and Rosandic among the assists, spread the production across the lineup.