HKM Zvolen beat HC Presov 3-2, with the game settled in a shootout after 2-2 held through regulation and overtime. The hosts banked their only margin in the opening period and then spent the rest of the night defending it.
Peter Zuzin opened it in the 5th from a Samuel Barcik feed, Davis Pennington answered in the 15th on Samuel Chalupa's assist, and Aurel Naus restored the lead in the 18th, set up by Cole Cassels, for 2-1 after 20 minutes. The turning point came early in the second: Keltie Jeri-Leon tied it in the 22nd off a David Kohut assist, and nothing moved after that - a scoreless third and a scoreless overtime.
The numbers tell the story of a game decided at the margins: all four regulation goals arrived inside the first 22 minutes, then 38 minutes of regulation plus overtime without one. Zvolen took the shootout 1-0.