- Wolfsburg came back from a three-goal deficit
- Turku scored three consecutive goals in the first
- Spencer Machacek netted the game-winner
Grizzlys Wolfsburg overcame a three-goal deficit, scoring three in the second and one more in the third, to take their fourth contest of the season, and second against TPS Turku.
Last week it took Turku 57 minutes to find their first tally, this time around it only took them 45 seconds into the initial stanza as Pavol Skalicky secured his first of the season to give the visitors the early lead. Eight minutes later Roni Allén extended his club's lead.
Allén received a soft dish from Tyler Steenbergen before wristing it high glove side to put Turku up by two. Moments later, the visitors cushioned their lead for a second time with Arttu Ilomäki's first of the season. Ilomäki was the beneficiary of a lucky bounce near the top of the crease that he promptly swatted past Justin Pogge to make it 3-0.
Wolfsburg would get one back on the powerplay a minute past the midway mark of the first when Laurin Braun sunk his second goal of the season. The forward was parked just outside the blue paint where Luis Schinko slid one cross-crease for Braun to hammer it past Noa Vali, cutting the lead to two.
Turku continued finding twine in the second as Eemeli Saari let go a wrister from the left circle to give the Finns their fourth goal on the night at 25:30.
The hosts, however, produced a flurry of goals in the second to eventually tie it up. First it was Fabio Pfohl executing a slick wrister from the right-side circle, then Darren Archibald's first tally brought the goal gap to within one. Finally, Wolfsburg found the equaliser at 39:30 off Archibald's second marker, and after trailing by three to begin the period, the Germans and Finns were knotted 4-4 after two.
Third period action was decidedly different from the first two with just one goal being scored. This one would come from Spencer Machacek with a little more than five minutes to play in the final frame.
Turku would pull their goalie with time winding down, but Machacek's marker would stand as the game-winner and what looked like a Turku takeover from the beginning turned into another win for the German side.