All three games on Friday night pitted teams who were close to each other in the standings.
DAB-Brasov 6-2
Michal Vazan, who was just signed by Dunaújváros made his MOL League debut, Dávid Duschek was in net for the home team and Rajmond Fülöp started for Brasov. After Brasov was not able to score on two power plays Péter Németh scored one for the home team in the 18th minute. After killing a penalty in the second period Brasov tied the game up on a Hunor Márton goal. Dúnaújváros took the lead back on a power play goal by the new player Vazal with Mike McCann and Németh getting the assists. Gellért Hruby scored late in the second period to make it 3-1.Dunaújváros pulled away in the third period Vazan scored his second of the game and just over a minute later Brad Smith made it 5-1. In the closing minutes of the game the two teams exchanged goals as Csanád Virég scored for the visitors and Zoltán Revák for the home team.
AV19-DVTK 3-5
Third place Fehérvár hosted league leaders DVTK, the home team was without the league's top two scorers Chris Bodó and Brance Orbán who were called up to the EBEL team but they did have Tihamér Becze who was sent down, Alex Scola got the start in net. The visitors countered with Attila Adorján in net, however they were missing Balázs Gőz and Jesse Dudás. keegan Dansereau opened up the scoring in the 9th minute and in under five minutes DVTK had a 3-0 lead as Nikandrosz Galanisz set up Jon Booras for the second goal and Kalvin Sagert made it 3-0. Before the period was out Balázs Somogyi scored a power play goal to make it 4-0 after the first period. For the start of the second Tyler Dietrich switched goals as Janis Kalnins replaced Scola. Fehérvár got on the scoreboard with Gergő Tóth scored with Szilárd Hamvai getting the assist. Patrik Popovics put DVTK back up by four goals but Roland Vokla scored before the period was out to make it 5-2. Preston Shupe scored a power play goal towards the end of the game, which was the only goal scored in the last twenty minutes to set the final at 5-3.
FTC-UTE 3-5
There was a classic Friday night matchup in Pesterzsébet as UTE travelled south to take on FTC in a Budapest derby. Krisztián Budai was in net for the home team with Ales Sila defending the visitors cage, UTE was without Karol Csányi. Ákos Kiss gave UTE the early lead when sniped the top corner on a break away, the lead didn’t last long as eleven seconds later Juha Hietamaki skated right to left through the hashmarks and shot the puck back against the grain over Sila’s glove for the goal. Fradi opened up a two goal lead as Dávid Horváth and Jereme Tendler scored in under a minute. To shake things up UTE coach Zoltán Hetéssy switched Sila for József Pleszkán, and this worked as neither team scored in the rest of the period and also through a scoreless second period. In the third period UTE looked to still have their legs underneath them, Tamás Virág made it a one goal game when put the puck between Budai’s legs and into the back of the cage. UTE tied it up when Eric Pance let a rocket fly that Budai had no chance of saving, just as the game looked as if it was going to go to overtime Dániel Kiss put a shot wide, the puck bounced off the back boards, Budai was slow to get across the crease and VIrág put the puck into the empty net. Fradi pulled the goalie in hopes of tying the game Mihálik scored two seconds after the faceoff to lock up the win for UTE.