Daniel Voženílek’s goal with exactly two minutes remaining was the difference as Oceláři Třinec finished their 2022/23 Champions Hockey League season with a 4-3 win. HC Davos had a chance to wrap up top spot in Group H with a win, but now will have to wait until the result of the group’s final game to see if they finish first or second.

The game was tied 1-1 after period one and 2-2 after the second.

Třinec started getting chances midway through the first period and they opened the scoring off the rush when Alan Lyszczarczyk’s shot from the left wing hit Gilles Senn in the shoulder and just trickled across the goal line at 11:13. Davos tied it a few minutes later when veteran Andres Ambühl made a nice pass that found Raphael Prassl heading to the net, and he buried the one-timer in close.

Davos took the lead in the first minute of the second period when Joakim Nordström’s centring pass found Enzo Corvi, who converted despite being upended from behind. Třinec answered just two minutes later, however, on a clever play by Libor Hudáček. After winning a battle for the puck in the corner, the Slovak looked to pass out front, and then when he caught Senn moving away from the near-side post, he banked a shot in off the Davos keeper.

Each team then killed off their first penalties of the game before they traded goals again in the second half of the middle frame. First Třinec retook the lead on a play that Davos disputed. Jakub Jeřábek’s shot from the point went in but Senn contended that he’d been interfered with. After a video review, however, the goal was upheld. Davos tied it back up with 1:32 left in the period when Simon Knak intercepted a pass in the neutral zone, then skated in alone on Ondřej Kacetl and beat him with a high shot.

There were no goals in the first 18 minutes of the third period but there were chances, particularly later on when each team turned over the puck in dangerous places. But finally Třinec broke through, with Hudáček providing the nice cross-ice feed and Voženílek the re-direct into the open far side of the net for the game-winning goal.