After just under two minutes, Tic and Tac immediately made the difference for the Angloys. A good game from Hugo Baron, on the right of the Mulhouse goal, allowed Anton Vasilyev to offer a pass caviar to his friend Alexey Polodyan, who only had to push the puck deep (0-1, 2nd). A perfect start for the Basques, spoiled by the exclusion a few minutes later of Anton Vasilyev. Author of a knee charge, number 69 was excluded from the meeting. Self-sabotage by Rézard’s men. Behind, the Scorpions were not asked to put two in 56 seconds via former home, Nikita Shalei first (1-1, 6th) then Emils Gegeris in powerplay (2-1, 7th).
Des powerplay efficaces
The locals therefore started the middle third with this advantage. Not for a long time. It only took 17 seconds to see Thomas Decock equalize. Captain Angloy took advantage of a gift offered by the Alsatian defensive and deceived Jean-Philippe Fontaine between the legs (2-2, 21st). That’s when this duel got completely crazy. In double numerical advantage, Olivier Dame-Malka sent a missile from the blue, which blew up the gourd of the Mulhouse porter (2-3, 27th). Then 41 seconds later, as the Basque powerplay ended, Fabien Kazarine made the break (2-4, 28th). Quick reaction from the Scorpions, also in powerplay, thanks once again to Emils Gegeris, with a perfect one timer under the mitt of Mathew Robson (3-4, 30th).
Short-lived joy for the supporters of Illberg, since Lionel Tarantino came to cool them with a perfect deflection on a second firecracker from Olivier Dame-Malka (3-5, 32nd). But last night, the Angloys had decided not to make it easy for themselves. At the end of the period, the young Baptiste Manciot, was in turn excluded for a projection against the band. Immediate punishment for the men of Hecquefeuille in powerplay again thanks to Konstantin Makarov (4-5, 38th).
Slap Schmitt
In the pretzel region, no less than 60 penalty minutes had been allocated to the Basques. But this Friday evening, there were those born to sting and those ready to die for their PK (penalty killing, numerical inferiority). Sacrifices close to paying for Anglet who held his victory before Konstantin Makarov went there with his double to send the two teams into extra time, six minutes from the siren (5-5). But as the saying goes so well: after the rain, comes the good weather. The hero of the evening is called Charles Schmitt. 29 seconds from the end of extra-time, the rising tricolor star pulled his best slap shot out of his hat to give victory to Hormadi (5-6, ap), at the end of a match rich in emotions.
