With their 5-4 comeback win, Genève-Servette have become the first Swiss club to compete in the Champions Hockey League Final as they overcame a two-goal deficit to take down Finnish side Lukko Rauma in the Semi-Finals. 

Moments after making a huge save off the rush, Jussi Olkinuora was beaten glove-side high by Jakob Stenqvist as Lukko took a 3-2 aggregate lead at the six-minute mark of the first. Henri Ikonen won the draw back to Stenqvist who snapped the puck through the legs of Genève's defencemen and into the back of the net to draw first blood.

The Finns continued to mount pressure on the Swiss with Brayden Burke putting the home team up 2-0 and 4-2 on aggregate with a simple wrister from the top of the slot that beat Olkinuora clean through the five-hole. The Canadian made a brilliant individual effort when he received the puck at center ice, skated in above the tops of the circles and let it go for his sixth of the season.

Lukko's powerplay made its debut at 14:56 after Sami Vatanen was called for tripping, but Genève's third-ranked penalty kill successfully staved off the Finns' chance at advancing their lead as the clubs headed down their respective tunnels with the Swiss holding an 11-7 advantage in shots but still down by two.

Late in the second, it was the Swiss making their resurgence, registering two of their own within the span of a minute.

The first came off a pretty passing play between a pair of Finns as Teemu Hartikainen dished a cross-crease feed to Valtteri Filppula who buried it to bring the goal deficit to within one. The play started with Simon Le Coultre flicking the puck to Hartikainen who held on to it for a moment before sliding it to Filppula for an easy tap-in past Lukko's Christopher Gibson, who made his CHL debut, with just over three minutes left in the second stanza.

Vatanen would go on to level the score following Genève's forecheck which resulted in Sakari Manninen gaining possession. Manninen then passed the puck to a wide-open Vatanen who let go a wicked wrister from just inside the near circle.

Then, in the final frame, it was the Swiss converting for a third time as some low-to-high play ended with Filppula securing his second marker of the contest as he deflected Vatanen's shot-pass from the point past Gibson to give Genève their first lead of the night.

As Lukko continued to search for the equaliser in the later stages of the third, the visitors continued to make things difficult for the hosts with the Swiss keeping high-danger chances to a minimum. Olkinuora stood on his head, making several key saves to maintain the lead. Gibson was eventually pulled in favour of the extra attacker as the Finns piled on the pressure in the dying minutes, but it would be Genève engineering the win and with it a chance to hoist the European Trophy come February.