MOL League Semi-Finals (Part 1)
In the MOL League semi finals both
best of five series have played two matches with two different out comes. After
two matches in Dunaújváros (DAB) the series heads to Miskolc
In game one of the Hungarian match
up the home team took a 4-0 lead just over 12 minutes in to the game at which
time Tim Kehler decided to pull his keeper Krisztián Budai for Dávid Gyenes. Less then a minute into the
match, DAB took the lead on a goal by Ákos Kiss on a pass from Nikandrosz Galanisz, about four minutes later Kiss
made it 2-0. Not to be out done Galanisz chipped in his on goal after being set
up by Kiss and Marek Chvatal, Jozef Mihalik’s shorthanded goal was the one that
ended up chassing Budai from the cage. The goalie switch looked like it payed
off with Miskolc closing the gap to 4-2 on two goals by Martin Saluga, however
they could not get any closer with DAB scoring three more goals. Richárd
Nagy and Dávid Szappanos
scoring goals five and six with Kiss completing his hat trick with goal number
seven. Just for some little excitement at the end Zsolt Azari received ten plus
two plus two for checking in the back, roughing and a misconduct. Galanisz lead
all scores with five points, a goal and four assists.
Miskoc’s fortunes changed in game
number two with a 4-2 win, this time Gyenes got the start from Kehler between
the pipes. Justin Smith broke the scoreless deadlock halfway through the first
period on a goal assisted by Krisztián Nagy with David Cowen setting up Vladimir Dubek before the end of
the period to take a 2-0 lead. DAB was able to even it up on two power play
goals by Azari and Szappanos but that was all that DAB was going to get. Smith
and Gergő Nagy closed out the
scoring, Smith ended up leading all scorers with his two goals and Balázs Láda
received 20 plus five for a knee and a game misconduct. Matches three and four
look to be a thriller just as the first two have been.
In the other semi final series Csíkszereda
won game one 5-3, however they were down 2-0 and 3-1 as late as the 36th
minute. Rastislav Barcák
opened up the scoring for the Ice Tigers and Konstantin Mikhailov put one in
the back of the net early in the second period to give the team from Slovakia a
2-0 lead. Dániel Tranca
brought Csíkszereda back to with in one but less then a minute later Vladimirs
Mamonovs put the Ice Tigers back up by two. Zsombor Molnár’s goal closed out the scoring in the 2nd
period, after 40 minutes the score was 3-2. The 3rd period was all
Csíkszereda who had an even strength goal by Tihamér Becze and Tranca had his
second one of the match by scoring one short handed. Vaclav Novak closed the
door on Nové Zamsky with an
empty netter in the closing minutes of the game. This match had its share of
penalty minutes with both Tamás Áron Bíró and
Martin Baron both getting 10 minute misconducts and Baron receiving another two
plus two for roughing. Becze led all scorers with three assists
Game two of the Csíkszereda-Nové Zamsky match up simply put
was a blow out for the home team Lubomir Hurtaj opened the scoring at 3:10 of the first, the Transylvanian home team
did not let up until the final horn sounded. Hurtaj scored his second one of
the match with Novak putting the puck past the keeper for the third goal of the
period. After the first it was 3-0 and the Ice Tigers coach decided to pull the
keeper Karol Krizan in favor of Jakub Zima. The next 20 minutes were slightly
better for Zima then the first 20 was for Krizan, Hurtaj completed his hat
trick in the second and Ervin Moldován made it 5-0
after two . Jan Fadrny and Szabolcs Szőcs scored the sixth and seventh goals of the game to give the
home team a 2-0 lead as the series moves to Slovakia .
Zsombor Molnár got 10 minutes
for a misconduct and Hurtaj was the leading scorer with his hat trick.
Check back soon as we close out the
semi finals and look towards a promising MOL League finals.
Szabolcs Závodszky
Twitter: @Zavodszky
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