HC Lugano U21 edged SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers U21 4-3 in a shootout, the only goal of the skills competition separating two teams that couldn't be separated across 65 minutes. Neither side could build a cushion at any point, and the game went to the tiebreaker as the logical end of a night of matched answers.
Each period finished 1-1: 1-1 after 20 minutes, 2-2 after 40, 3-3 through regulation. Overtime produced nothing on the scoreboard, and the shootout went 0-1 to the visitors.
The telling number is symmetry — three straight even periods, a scoreless overtime, and a one-goal shootout margin. Lugano's goaltending in the tiebreaker was the difference in a game decided by the thinnest available margin.