Varese Hockey took it 5-3 in Fassa in regulation, and the middle period was the whole story. Down 2-0 after twenty minutes, the visitors put up three unanswered in the second to lead 3-2 and never gave the lead back.
Fassa owned the opening period, scoring twice for a 2-0 cushion. Varese flipped it entirely in the second — a 3-0 frame that made it 3-2 — then went 2-1 in the third, with the hosts' lone late goal leaving the final at 3-5.
The number that matters: five unanswered Varese goals across the second and third periods after trailing 2-0. Goals aren't public per scorer here, but the period splits (0-3, 1-2) say enough about who controlled the back forty minutes.