UTE-AV19 suspended
Every time Fehérvár gets one player back another one gets injured, missing from the lineup because of injuries were defensemen Máté Arany and Gergely Korbuly. Alex Scola started in net for the visitors with Ales Sila defending the home team net. The game started out at a fast pace as both teams wanted to take the early lead. Peter Huba gave UTE the lead when he collected a loose puck in the neutral zone, skated down the left wing and fired a shot past Sila from the left faceoff dot. Fehérvár tied it up on their first power play of the night when Brance Orbán hit Chris Bodo with a through pass on the back post which Bodo lifted into the empty net. At the beginning of the second period UTE scored a power play goal of their own when Erik Pance took a pass from the corner and sent a shot on net that somehow went through traffic. Both teams kept up the energy throughout the game. Fehérvár turned to the power play once again to score a goal, once again Orbán set up the goal scorer as Devon Krogh ripped a shot down the pipe from the blue line to tie it up at two. Neither team managed to score in the final eleven minute of play and the game went into overtime. With two minutes left in the extra period the game had to be suspended because of an injury to Devon Krogh.
DHK-MAC 5-4
The second and third team in the league went head to head in Debrecen in an effort to keep pace with first place Diósgyőr. MAC had three new players in the line up in back up goalie Norbert Zaka, forward Róbert Egyed and young defenceman Gergely Tóth, on the other side Garrett Milan was out with an injury with Mikhail Ustyansev taking his place on the roster. As expected Bence Bálizs was defending the MAC goal and Ádám Vay was in the home net. Debrecen scored early in the game as they caught MAC on the change when Norbert Dancsfalvi redirected an Artyom Vaszjunyin pass. Later in the period Tomas Klempa wheeled around the net and slid the puck short side past Vay. The teams stayed locked at 1-1 through the rest of the period and into the second, MAC took their first lead of the game when Niko Saarenpaa shot out the far corner from the faceoff dot. Just over a minute later Danil Kaskov picked up a puck, skated in on a breakaway and fired a slapshot from the hashmarks past Bálisz it make it 2-2. In the last minute of play in the period there was a scramble in front of the MAC net, Martin Saluga lifted the puck over the goalie’s pads to give Debrecen a one goal lead as the teams went in for their second break. In the final twenty minutes Vladislav Troshin made it a two goal lead when he redirected a Bronson Kovács rocket from the point for the power play goal. Later in the period MAC made it a one goal game as Klempa sent a saucer pass towards the net that Drew Olson put a stick and directed it into the net. Ákos Berta put Debrecen back up by two goals off of a slick toe drag, which he followed up with five hole finish. In the final minute of play Michael Quinn scored for MAC to set the final at 5-4.
Photo: Zoltán Rózsa