AV19-MAC 8-2
After two overtime games, game four of the this series was expected to live up to the expectation of the first three games. MAC was without Niko Saarenpaa who picked up an injury during warmups, Bence Bálizs was starting in net. On the home side Tamás Láday was sitting out a one game suspension with Miklós Rajna between the pipes. Fehérvár took the first lead of the game as Mitch Holmberg made a cross ice pass in front of two MAC defenseman, to Brance Orbán who instead of one timing it waited a moment and snapped it past Bálizs, glove side. In the last minute of the period Drew Olson picked up a loose puck in the Volán zone and shot the puck past Rajna from high in the slot.
Early in the second period Orbán and Preston Shupe skated on the rush, Orbán through the puck in front of the net from the left wing, where Shupe took a poke at the puck that went over Bálizs’s shoulder. Shupe scored his second goal of the period when he parked in front of the net and again Orbán set him up for the power play goal. MAC came back within one when Jeff Hayes took a pass from Tomas Klempa on the right wing and one timed it past Rajna. Volán pulled away in closing minutes of the second period Alex Grieve was sprung and he skated in on a breakaway that after a nice move slipped past Bálizs to go up 4-2, István Bartalis took a shot from the goal line that somehow made it through Bálizs on tight shot.
Fehérvár went up 6-2 when Holmberg went high on Bálizs from the left faceoff circle. The route was on when Orbán scored a power play goal as he flipped it over the blocker of Bálizs. Late in the period Fehérvár was on the power play, they cycled the puck around nicely until Péter Vincze got free for a shot that ended up in the back of the net. Fehérvár ended up pulling the series even with the blowout win.
Tyler Dietrich: The win is worth on game just like a 2-1 O.T. would be, now we move on. We were focused to bring the momentum from yesterday to todays game. We know this will be a long series, this game was a bit of an anomaly.
Gergely Majoross: Both a one goal loss and a blow out means the same thing, right now both teams have two wins, right now a new series starts and for our short bench the rest will help us. The second half of the series will be in our favor as the first four games were more for Fehérvár.