One minute left, Karpat still lead by two goal. Aittokallio saves and holds the puck.

Powerful one-timer by Hanusch end in the corner.

Krefeld is back at full strength, Karpat still holds the attacking zone.

Aaltonen fires a one-timer from the point, Duba deflects it.

Krefeld plays with the puck, however, home players can't reach Aittokallio's net. Karpat is defending well its own zone.

Suorata with a backhand shot, deflected wide.

Karpat is back at full strenght.

Karpat is good at defence now, Krefeld can't reach attacking zone.

Collins deflects Pirnes' shot, puck bounces out of the play.

Aittokallio saves another shot and holds the puck. Game is stopped and will resume after short break.

Thomas Supis shoots two times from left-hand board, both shots deflected to the corner.

Maenalanen skates in front of Krefeld's net and fires a powerful wrist shot. Duba deflects it to the corner.

Karpat is back at full strength.

Pietta the slapper from the point, Aittokallio saves it.

Krefeld continues in power-play, Aittokallio didn't have to make any save yet.

Krefeld takes the initiative but can't get to Karpat's zone so far.

Mika Niemi steals puck at neutral zone, skates through the blue line and shoots. Puck is deflected out of play.

Mikko Niemela skates in front of the net, then he fires a wrister. Duba saves it.

Third period starts with Pietta's shot and Aittokallio's save.

One more save by Aittokallio after Collins' shot, score stays the same.

Now Mikko Niemela's slapper from the blue line, saved by Duba.

Fischer fires a blast from the blue line, sails wide.

Junttila is stopped at blue line, offside is whistled.

Game has good tempo, but we don't see any shots. Looks like teams are afraid to shoot at opponent's goalie.

St-Pierre jumped from the penalty box right to action, however, he was stopped by Nutivaara.

Krefeld is back at full strength.

Bad pass by Puljujarvi, puck bounces to Karpat's zone.

Karpat holds puck at attacking zone, no shots so far.

Home team holds puck at Karpat's zone, no more shots so far.

Now Krefeld with a good chance, Aittokallio saves it.

Fischer fires a powerful slapper from the blue line, puck sails wide.

Karpat steals the puck and fires it behind Duba's net.

Puck bounced out of play, game will resume after short break with a face-off in the neutral zone.

Maenalanen gets to Krefeld's zone, his shot from the blue line is blocked.

Krefeld on a breakaway, stopped by Aaltonen.

Another Duba's save, this time with glove against Keranen.

Nutivaara wrist shot from the point, pad save Duba.

Nothing happened so far at second period, teams can't get through neutral zone.

Krefeld is back at full strength.

Mebus is back, Krefeld plays with four players.

Pirnes with a powerful one-timer from the point, Duba saves it.

Karpat with a huge pressure on home team, Duba didn't have to make save yet.

Game is stopped as puck bounced out of play. After the whistle there was small fight, no more penalties so far.

Krefeld's quick attempt to get into attacking zone is stopped by offside.

Pirnes the slapper from the point, sails wide.

Karpat controls the puck but can't get from its own zone.

Karpat is playing at full strength.

St-Pierre shots from the blue line, his shot is deflected to the corner.

Home team is at Karpat's zone, Aittokallio didn't have to make any saves yet.

Kretschmann skates into Karpat's zone and fires a wrister from the point. Glove save by Aittokallio. After the whistle there was a bit of fighting, Krefeld is going to play another power-play.

Karpat is back at full strength.

Julius Junttila steals the puck, skates into Krefeld's zone. There he makes few laps and sends puck behind Duba's net.

Good penalty killing by Karpat so far, Krefeld's players can't get into attacking zone.

Good and swift movement by Krefeld at Karpat's zone, it all ends with Aittokallio save against Sofron's shot.

Bad call by one of linesmen, face-off at the centre of ice.

Krefeld is constantly trying to get into Karpat's zone, however, they can't go through the blue line.

Krefeld's power-play is over, Karpat is back at full strength.

Karpat is now strong at defence, Krefeld can't get into attacking zone.

Krefeld's power-play looks better, than Karpat's. Aittokallio had to stop two shots already.

Karpat's second power-play looks almost identically as the first one. Karpat can't find way to Krefeld's zone.

Karpat's power play is over. Finnish team managed to stay at Krefeld's zone, however, Duba didn't have to block any shot.

Karpat can't find aby opportunity to shoot at Duba. Krefeld sends the puck across rink.

Karpat tries to quickly move into offense zone, but is stopped at blue line. Offside.

First face off for Karpat. Visiting team then sends the puck to icing.

Teams are on the ice, game is about to begin!

Starting lineups:

Krefeld Pinguine: Duba (Klein) – Fischer, St Pierre, Sonnenbrg, Hanusch, Supis, Mebus, T. Schmitz, Kretschmann – Sofron, Eriksson, Pietta – Bishop, Collins, Schymainski – Dreindl, Vasiljevs, Hauner – Hagos, Mieszkowski, Koziol. Coach: Richard Adduono.

Kärpät Oulu: Aittokallio (Hovinen) – Kukkonen, Masuhr, Laatikainen, Hakanpaa, Nutivaara, Niemela, Pentikainen – Huml, Niemi, Puljujarvi – Pirnes, Junttila, Pyorala – Aho, Ikkonen, Aaltonen – Maenalanen, Keranen, Suoranta – Kestila. Coach: Lauri Marjamaki.

Referees: Hejduk (CZE), Schukies – Seeßle, Berger (All GER).

The Krefeld Penguins are anxious to meet Kärpät Oulu, which is quite a contrast to last season's attitude when some players asked for the sense of participating in the CHL competition. Coach Rick Adduono told the press about the differences between this year's team and the previous one: less talent, but more speed and work ethic; "We have 25 players with a very good attitude and we have good leadership."
Team captain and international Daniel Pietta and Krefeld's Hungarian top scorer Istvan Sofron will try to make the Penguins do what they forgot to do last year: score. Although playing really well in their first two (home) games they wasted their chances and ended up empty-handed. If that can be changed the youngsters from Krefeld may stand a chance against the very experienced and considerably older team from Finland, which reached the CHL semi-finals last time.
In the German DEL last year's Penguins only made it into the first play-off round, and the hungry younger team that they are this season will surely try to do better than that – why should they not begin doing so against Kärpät? Apart from defender Robin Weihager the players are fit and the spectators should see an interesting match.

Welcome. Game starts at 19:30.