Hiti Academy Bled Hawks U20 edged Vasas Budapest Stars U20 5-4 in a shootout in the Erste Bank Young Stars League, surviving a four-goal middle period from the visitors. The Hawks answered in the third to force overtime, and the skills competition settled it 1-0.
Bled built a 2-0 lead through 20 minutes and looked in control, then conceded four times in the second while scoring once — a 1-4 period that flipped the game and left them trailing 3-4. One third-period goal tied it at 4-4, and a scoreless overtime pushed the night to the shootout.
The telling number is the second period: four goals against in one frame, and the Hawks still took the extra point. The shootout line — 1-0 — carried them, with the goaltending holding up through 65 minutes and the breakaways that followed.