EHC Biel-Bienne make it three in a row and move to the very top of Group A with 9 points from 3 games. They prevented the game from going to OT just 3 minutes before the final whistle and bring home all 3 points from their first away game in the CHL.

Both teams started very openly, and the game got undergoing very quickly. Just 25 seconds into the game, Biel-Bienne’s Mike Künzle was awarded a 2-minute tripping penalty and offered Frisk Asker the first powerplay of the night. They were unable to score and even cut their powerplay short with a foul of their own 1 minute later. After a fight between Samuel Kreis and Mikael Dokken, both were given 2-minute roughing penalties and sent to the boxes in the final minute of the first period. After 18 shots on goal combined from the two teams, the game was still at 0-0 after 20 minutes played.

4 minutes of the second period was all it took Frisk Asker to gain their first, and last, lead in the match. After another fight, this time between Biel-Bienne’s Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Frisk Asker’s Henrik Ødegaard, the referee awarded each player a 2+2 penalty. 10 more penalty minutes were handed out on both sides in the next 14 minutes, but it was Biel-Bienne who usually had the extra skater on the ice. They used this to their advantage and scored 2 powerplay goals before the end of the second period, which ended with the score sitting at 2-1 to Biel-Bienne.

Both teams were most probably ordered to stop committing penalties by their head coaches, as the penalties from the previous periods suddenly vanished. Biel-Bienne’s Mathieu Tschantré gained the first 7 minutes into the third period for stick holding and Asker’s Mikkel Seiergren Christiansen was able to score in the powerplay to tie the game back to 2-2. With both teams pressing for the win before OT, it was EHC Biel-Bienne’s Jan Neuenschwander who ended the game with just 3 minutes of playing time remaining and robbed Frisk Asker of their hard-fought and much needed points.