Comarch Cracovia won 4-3 in Nowy Targ, and the game was decided in regulation by the opening 20 minutes. Two goals in the first period gave the visitors a 0-2 cushion they never surrendered, even as Podhale chipped away over the final 40.
Cracovia struck inside the first minute and added another at 19, closing the period 0-2. The middle frame went 1-1 — Cracovia scoring at 22, Podhale answering at 36 — for 1-3 after two. The third was the loudest stretch: Podhale got on the board at 41, Cracovia restored the two-goal margin at 49, and the hosts pulled back again at 52, but the 3-4 held.
The number that matters: Cracovia scored in three different periods and never trailed. Podhale outscored them 2-1 in the final 20, which was a period too late.