The attackers Martin Růžička, Marko Daňo and Ondřej Kovařčík made the strongest victory for the Slezanians from seven domestic duels during this year’s elimination fights. Růžička scored and scored for the next two, Daňo and Kovařčík scored twice. Today, Javorový scored the most goals in one final match of the series between Pardubice and Brno in 2012.
“Today we deserved to win, it was definitely our best match in the series. We worked for sixty minutes and we were rewarded for it,” praised home coach Václav Varaďa, who just celebrated his forty-sixth birthday today.
After a mutually careful start, the wild duel started Třinec’s goal in the seventh minute. Goalkeeper Hudáček offered the puck to the opponent with the pass, Růžička found the moving Dan with a great backhand pass and he did not hesitate up close. However, only 41 seconds passed and it was leveled. The German threw a disc from his own goal, which was still in the middle of the field, and the keeper of the home goal, Kacetl, swung the trap into space.
In the 10th minute, the guests took the lead and Němeček was there again, whose throw from the blue line flowed out of Kacetl’s reach Dvořáček. In this case, too, a quick response from the losing team followed. Růžička used a backhand to charge Daň, who shot Hudáček. The Prague team then played the first power play of the match in the 14th minute and Řepík was close to returning the guests to the lead, but his attempt was stopped by the goal construction. Shortly afterwards, Kacetl and Forman stopped arriving.
The second act clearly belonged to Třinec. In the 23rd minute, Nestrašil found Michal Kovařčík well, who quickly found his brother Ondřej, and the Steelmen took the lead. Only 33 seconds passed and the home team had a two-goal lead after Marinčina. The people of Prague tried to stop the run-up Třinec by changing goalkeepers – Hudáček replaced Machovský.
In the middle of the 26th minute, he returned the Spartans to the game of Šmerh and the changing of the guards also took place on the other side. Instead of Kacetla, Mazanec went to the goal. A moment later, Matushkin fouled and halfway through his sentence, he sent him back into the game with a show shot from the first Hrňa. Dvořáček did not use the chance to reduce, instead gunner Růžička prevailed in the 38th minute. Machovský then caught Michal Kovařčík in renumbering two to one.
“I have to say that we wanted to play differently than before, maybe somehow surprise Sparta. In the first period we lost a little momentum, we got two unlucky goals. From the second period it was great on our part and we had more or less control over the match,” he said. Ondřej Kovařčík. He admitted that the intention was to play more aggressively. “You could say that. We wanted to take the initiative and not just play in the back and wait,” he added.
In the third period, the people of Třinec carefully guarded their valuable lead and Sparta did not find a counter-weapon. When Ondřej Kovařčík then added a chance to 7: 3 after Nestrašilov’s chance, which Machovský covered, it was definitely clear from the finish. The home hockey players were able to enjoy a calm conclusion to the applause of the audience.
“We didn’t want to allow this at all. It was a very big wilderness. We came to play our hockey, but ten minutes passed and it was already 2: 2. It all opened there. Hockey was played up and down, which “You can’t play with this team, because otherwise it will hurt you in quotes. We have to be careful about such things. We are going home, we need to do our homework and get ready for Thursday,” said the defender of the losers Milan Jurčina.
The people of Prague are losing for the third time in the final battle, they will try to equalize on Thursday in Prague, where match number six will take place from 7 pm.
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