Last Kladno snatched the leader, Pardubice returns to the lead! Třinec crushed the Comet in the rain

Kladno went into a fight with the overall leader of the table in the position of a clear outsider. In the two previous matches against Vítkovice during the season, they did not score a single point, moreover, the Knights went to Ostrava with an unflattering record of three defeats in a row. Vítkovice, on the other hand, scored six times in a row and five of them won by three points.

Even the expulsion of Jaromír Jágr after 36 seconds of the game did not herald the collapse of Kladno. On the contrary. The defiant visiting team managed to score one goal for the home team in each period, Tomáš Plekanec gave the result in his own weakness to the final 3:0.

Pardubice led three times in Liberec, but the Tigers were able to reset Dynamo’s lead to zero each time. It wasn’t until the very end of the third period, when perhaps the home team believed in extra time, that Robert Kousal struck and scored the winning goal 11 seconds before the siren. The East Bohemians, who lost first place after Tuesday’s loss to Sparta, once again jumped over their Vítkovice rival and have a two-point lead.

Tehelná pole in Bratislava was the venue for the fifth extra league match under the open sky on Friday. Defending champion Třinec played against Brno in the Winter Games and extended its winning streak to five matches without any major problems. Kometa succeeded in Olomouc on Wednesday, but the Brno team have not won twice in a row since the end of October, and on Friday they lost to the Steelers 1:6. Třinec thus confirmed the third place in the table, Kometa is ninth.

The hockey players of Mountfield Hradec Klinik also had five victories in the last six games, and Boleslav was always one step ahead on the ice during the game. But for the first time under coach Kalous, the home team managed to erase the visitors’ lead twice, and in the last minute of overtime, Söderlund scored the winning point for the home team.

Even for the third time in the season, the Litvínov hockey players failed to extract points from the duel with Pilsen. After three defeats in a row, the Indians needed to take action, and their efforts were not thwarted on home ice even by a quick leading goal by the North Bohemians after less than two minutes of the game. In the second and third periods, Plzeň burdened the opponent’s account with two goals, and after a 4:1 win, they are in sixth place in the table. Litvínov is eleventh.

For the third time in the season, the Karlovy Vary hockey players managed to beat České Budějovice. In a duel between teams from the bottom of the table, the West Bohemians quickly took a two-goal lead on the opponent’s ice and managed to keep the lead, even though the home team came within striking distance twice. The final form of the 4:2 result was determined by the Karlovy Vary Kohout during the Motor’s power play. Both of today’s opponents swapped positions in the table, Budějovice fell to 13th place and are only one score ahead of last place Kladno. The Vars have a three-point gap in 12th place.