Munich came out the stronger of the two teams, putting a lot of pressure on TPS in front of their home crowd, but it took them a while to finally break through. They weren't able to capitalise on their only powerplay chance of the period, but Trevor Parkes with his fourth of the competition finally broke the deadlock after a broken play in the crease of Rasmus Tirronen allowed him to tap the puck home, after a great initial rush up ice from John Mitchell.

Munich began the second frame with another man advantage, but Tirronen was square to every shot, a much-improved performance on the penalty kill by TPS who gave up five powerplay goals in their last game. TPS looked to start growing into the game after the penalty kill, and finally found their way back into the game with a tipped shot in front from Lauri Pajuniemi beat Danny aus den Birken to even the game up. Almost immediately TPS found themselves on the man advantage, and could have snuck in front had it not been for a bobbling puck denying Zach Budish the chance at a backdoor tap-in. The two teams traded blows, with Parkes scoring his second of the night, before young Finnish star Kaapo Kakko got his first goal of the campaign with a nice wrap around effort to make it a 2-2 scoreline going into the final period, with Hanu Kuru unable to finish on a wide open opportunity with just seconds left, sending his way too high to give TPS a late lead.

After some great penalty killing through the opening two periods, TPS finally found a way past aus den Birken with a man advantage. A penalty initially called against the Munich goaltender resulted in a goal from Zach Buddish giving Turku their first lead all tournament long.

That go-ahead goal at 45:32 was canceled out by John Mitchell some six minutes later, but the late show was still to come. Oula Palve struck with just 1:19 left on the board to put the hosts in front, before Markus Nurmi was the eventual beneficiary of a defensive mix-up to make the game safe with 23 seconds to play.

The win puts TPS well back into the race for the playoffs.