Rouen lays hands on plate

A rude charge of Kolarz on Thinel after 30 seconds is the sign of the determination of Tychy to win the crucial game of the Superfinals against Rouen; the game is immediately plenty of emotions: after 42seconds an errant puck in the French defense is taken by Kalinowski and convert in the Polish advantage even if the celebration of fans lasts two minutes: at 02:45 Dan Koudys ties the game and one minute after Thinel is the quickest to deflect a pass from Mark Matheson with no chances for Zigardy and the ecstasy of crowded Lacroix Arena. Despite the quick comeback suffered Tychy is still alive in the game, repeatedly threatening Sabourin’s cage, but at 11:04 Dame-Malka finds the right angle with a missile from the blue to seal the double advantage for the Dragons. Now Rouen takes the lead and Tychy is on the knees: at 13:00 the unstoppable duo Guenette-Thinel prepares and finishes the fourth goal, forcing coach Sejba to replace the groggy Zigardy with Kamil Kosowski. At 16 Tychy has the golden chance of a double superiority and immediately raise the voice, scoring with a beautiful one-timer by Marcin Kolusz, seved from behind the cage by Jaroslaw Rzeszutko. The period finishes with a long-range shot from Coulombe, deflected by Kosowski with the pads. Less than one minute in the second period and Sacha Treille steals a puck from the defense, aims the shot to beat with no chance Kosowski. Dragons is still hungry and bits again at 27:10 with Dame-Malka, again from long distance. Tychy finds the third goal, while the arena s celebrating its heroes, with Jaroslaw Rzeszutko on power play at 32:42, giving some more interest at the rest of the game. At 38 Guenette shots on Kosowski pads wasting a good chance and on the counterattack Tychy scores its fourth goal with Kotlorz, assisted by Kolusz, animating the Polish fans. Guenette again doesn’t finalize with cage wide open six second before the siren. The last period sees a brave assault of Tychy at Rouen cage, with Dragons, supporting incessantly by the amazing fans, suffering the pressure, keeping afloat by Sabourin twice between 50 and 53 with great saves. With oe minute left, Tychy pulls Kosowski for a desperate assault: with 37 seconds Sabourin isn’t perfect on a shot by Jaroslaw Rzeszutko giving the fans a thrilling final, with two finals shot from Poles at inches from an incredible draw.

It was a beautiful game, Rouen dominates first part, but suffered a great comeback by Tychy that perhaps deserved something more, but definitely Polish team shows it can compete at high level. Rouen has now the silver plate in his hands, unless a catastrophic defeat

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