Kiekko-Espoo shut out Karpat Oulu 4-0 in regulation, and the margin was built almost entirely in a three-goal middle period. The hosts never trailed and never let the game get closer than the opening goal.
Espoo took a 1-0 lead through the first, then turned the game over in the second with three unanswered goals to make it 4-0 after 40 minutes. From there the third period went scoreless, with Karpat unable to solve the deficit or find a foothold on the scoreboard.
The number that frames it is the blank on the visitors' side: 0 goals across 60 minutes, and a 3-0 second period that decided the night before the final intermission.