The purple and white squad finished up their Transylvanian road trip in Csíkszereda which didn't go that easily for the visiting team. Vaclav Novák opened up the scoring in the first period, Novák registered his second of the match about half way through the game. This is where the levy broke for the visitors as Szabolcs Szőcs, Tihamér Becze and Attila Góga all scored in the second period to make it 5-0 before Újpest was able to get on the scoreboard. Tamás Ódry broke the shutout for Gellért Ruczuj, Becze had his second of the match at the end of the 2nd to set the final score at 6-1.
The other team from Budapest had the first real surprise result of the young season as FTC crushed Miskolc on their own ice 6-2! Miskolc started Dávid Duschek between the pipes, everything started out great for the home team as Jordan Knox and Ádám Hegyi set up Juraj Faith for the early 1-0 lead. FTC scored the next 6 goals with the last 3 coming in a one minute span forcing Travis Young to pull Duschek for Dávid Gyenes. Gábor Kiss tied it up with István Mestyán scoring three minutes later for the 2-1 lead. Zoltán Pál's powerplay goal was all that FTC needed with the last three being icing on the cake. Michal Potila light up the lamp 20 seconds later, with Kiss having his second of the night and the third of the minute. Dávid Horváth had the last visiting goal with Roland Hajós closing out the scoring for the night and setting the 6-2 final.
The visiting went up 2-0 on a brace by Balázs Ladányi but were not able to hold on to the two goal lead. Zsombor Antal put Brasov on the scoreboard and Juha Hietamäki beat Peter Sevela at 42:29 to even it up at 2-2. The score would stay two all at the end of regulation sending the match into overtime. Balázs Somogyi was able to get DAB two points one the road when he scored the winner 1:38 into the bonus session.
Pavel Kowalczyk gave the home team a 1-0 lead 13:09 into the first period, Josh Bonar responded when he put the puck past Jan Chovan. Kowalczyk again game his team the lead, this time capitalizing on a two man advantage, and again Bonar came back to time the match up at 2-2. Gergő Nagy was to have the final say 1:41 into the 3rd period, with his goal the home team kept the three points
The Green Eagles from Budapest traveled south along the Danube to take on the Steel Bulls in a matchup of "backup" goalies as the hosts introduced Latvian olympic prospect Janins Kalnins into the MOL league. The home side took the lead when Viktor Papp was able to beat Krisztián Budai for the 1-0 lead. Papp doubled the lead with his second goal of the match 1:25 into the 2nd period. With just over 10 minutes left in the game FTC got on the scoreboard with an Andreas Lindquist goal, the visitors tried to even things up when they pulled their keeper but in the end Ivan Khomutov shut the door on this with his empty net goal.
The home team jumped out to an early 1-0 lead on a goal by Adrián Tóth, Miskolc doubled their lead towards the end of the period with a Matthew Boyle goal. The match looked to be in the bag when Miskolc scored on a power play with Attila Rafaj beat Stanislav Kozuch on a pass from Tóth. Csíkszereda didn't give up, the visiting team made things kind of interesting when the scored two goals in a span of 24 seconds at 56:00 and 56:24. Vaclav Novák and Ervin Moldován both scored even strength goals. Tyler Metcalfe had an empty netter to end the match at 4-2.
After a 4-2 win Miskolc was back at it again, on the road down in Dunaújváros. Peter Huba scored at 6:10 for DAB-Docler. Roland Hajós was able to pull the visitors even, the teams started the 2nd period all knotted up at one. DAB capitalized on the home ice advantage early in the second period when both Viktor Papp and Attila Pavuk scored even strength goals to give their team a nice cushion. Adrián Tóth got one back for Miskolc when he beat Tamás Kiss on a power play. Despite pull Dávid Gyenes for the extra attacker the home side was able to hold on for the 3-2 win.
Újpest has not had the smoothest start to this season however at first it looked like their fortunes might turn against a visiting Brasov club that was playing the first leg of a two match road trip. Teams were deadlocked at 0-0 until late in the first period when Kevin Wehrs put the puck past József Pleszkán for an even strength goal and the 1-0 lead. 35 seconds into the second the home team was able to tie things up on a two man advantage when Péter Németh scored. About seven minutes later UTE took the lead on a David Coleman goal, unfortunately they could not hold on to the lead. The Brasov Wolves tied it up on a Róbert Péter goal and then took a 3-2 lead on a Juha Hietamaki PP goal. The visitors continued the scoring when they beat Pleszkán on two more powerplay goals by Csanád Virág and Martin Saluga.
Ferencváros played the first leg of a Transylvanian doubleheader on Sunday night. Csíkszereda took a 1-0 lead when Ervin Moldován took a pass from Ede Mihály and put it past Michal Meravy for the power play goal. Ten minutes later Antti Ojanen tied it up for the home team at one all. FTC took their first lead of the night when Norbert Dancsfalvi scored against Stanislav Kozuch. The lead lasted till 25:28 when Tihamér Becze scored on the man advantage and even it up at 2-2. Fradi jumped ahead again when they had their own PP goal by the way of Ákos Berta 40 seconds into the last stanza of hockey. Moldován had his second goal of the night which again was on the power play, with neither team being able to score there was less than one minute of bonus hockey because Attila Góga give the visiting team the OT win. One thing that we did learn from the match was that FTC needs to work on their penalty kill.
League Leaders
Points: 9 Josh Bonar
Goals: 4 Six are tied
Assists: 6 Josh Bonar and Gergő Nagy
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