Lausanne HC took it 5-3 in Langnau, and the game was effectively decided before the second intermission. A three-goal middle period pushed the visitors to 0-4 and left the Tigers chasing the rest of the way.
Basile Sansonnens opened it at 14 on a Ray Fust feed for 0-1, then Lausanne struck twice inside the 25th minute — Erik Brannstrom from Curtis Lazar, Jason Fuchs from Ahti Oksanen — before Brannstrom added his second at 37 off Makai Holdener. Langnau finally found traction in the third, Hannes Björninen scoring at 41 from Saku Maenalanen and a second goal at 46 trimming it to 2-4, but Lausanne restored the three-goal cushion at 54 and the hosts' 55th-minute reply only set the final margin.
Brannstrom's two-goal night is the number that stands out: both came in the period that broke the game open, and four different Lausanne scorers found the sheet. Langnau's three-goal third was the only period they won, and it arrived with the deficit already at four.