Higher motivation by players and fans is in this matchup between Martin and Trenčín. First meeting this season Martin had won 4-3 and about 500 fans travelled to Trencin with players by train together.

Trencin left couple players Richard Lintner (to Dinamo Minsk, KHL) and Róbert Petrovický (Dynamo Riga,KHL). They lost last game at home vs. Skalica by score 3-7.

Martin had won in Nitra after bad start to the game they turned it at all. Huge mistakes by Nitra defencemans helped to Martin to win. Either Martin killed 4 penalties 3 on 5. In this game goalie Karol Križan (Martin) got game miscounduct and commission took him registration card for following 3 games. There is now up to second goalie Dzubina who played 7 games with 2,77 GAA and 91,26%SV. It is usual that he will be hero or looser after this game.

It is expected pressure by home team, they are great in powerplays and expected is sell out again. But most of the games between those two teams are pretty even, wins by one goal or draws.

There is another thing to check at least. There were too many draws and loses with high odds and two surprise wins by junior team Slovakia team under 20 with couple huge odds as well in last three rounds. At least to say - is there something behind those results ???