Dynamo Pardubice stayed alive in the CHL with a 6-1 rout of Grizzlys Wolfsburg. Read more in Gamecentre. 

Having suffered a humiliating 6-0 defeat in Wolfsburg only a few days ago, Pardubice were out for revenge from the very beginning. Nicholas Schaus started the scoring for the home team with 4:56 played and, despite some decent half-chances and having the better of the period, Pardubice led by just that goal after 20 minutes.

Period two saw Pardubice again with the more dominant play, and they were duly rewarded for their efforts – Michal Barta's wonderful snapshot sailing into the net at 27:34. Just before the break things got better for the home side, when Schaus finished off some neat passing to slot into a wide-open goal at 39:50. The goal was initially reviewed after two Wolfsburg players collided and knocked the net off, but the video official decided the puck entered first and it should stand.

5:26 into the final period and a Justin Hodgkin strike put Dynamo 4-0 ahead, suddenly with the chance to level the head-to-head record up. Then, with 50:44 played Dynamo hit five as Branislav Rapac light the lamp. Wolfsburg needed an answer, and duly got it just over to minutes later – lapse defending let Kris Foucault skate towards the Dynamo net, and he slotted through the five-hole to make it 5-1. Having stopped the rot, Wolfsburg were left kicking themselves just a few minutes later though – a combination of an errant pass and bad line change allowed Barta to backhand through the five-hole and put Pardubice 6-1 ahead, and that's how it ended.

"It is always nice when the team is capable of learning from mistakes it made 48 hours ago. Today we were able to play a better game than in Germany," said pleased Pardubice coach Peter Draisaitl. "The biggest difference between these two games was our ability to cope with their constant forechecking. That is a style of hockey that the players are not used to from our Extraliga, but tonight we played those situations well."

"We saw two different sides of our team over these two games," said Wolfsburg coach Pavel Gross. "Tonight, I think Pardubice won every battle on the ice. They played against us here like we did at home to them, and deserved to win. For us, it wasn't good enough."

That win puts Pardubice two points ahead of Wolfsburg, with the Grizzlys now needing to win in Gothenburg against Frolunda in their last game.