Dynamo Pardubice won 6-4 at home over HC Sparta Praha in regulation, never trailing after the opening minutes and answering every Sparta push with a goal of their own. Pardubice took each period on the scoreboard — 2-1, 2-1, 2-2 — and led 2-1 and 4-2 at the intermissions.
David Tomasek opened at 4 off a Roman Cervenka feed, Ronald Knot tied it at 7, and Cervenka put Pardubice back ahead at 14. Lukas Sedlak (24) and Daniel Gazda (35) stretched it to 4-1 before Devin Shore answered at 39 and again at 47 to make it 4-3; the turning point came immediately after, Jachym Kondelik scoring at 49 and Tomasek completing his hat trick at 52 for 6-3.
Tomasek was the game's defining figure: three goals and an assist, including the unassisted strike that restored a three-goal cushion. Cervenka finished with a goal and an assist, and Shore's two goals plus Krystof Hrabik's 58th-minute marker were all Sparta could manage against a side that scored in every period.