Coaches on both sides praised Banska Bystrica's Canadian goalie Tyler Beskorowany who let only one puck of the 32 shots get passed him and lifted his team to the sixth consecutive victory.

The fight in Group B, the group of six teams that placed in the bottom half of the standings after the first stage of the regular season and are now fighting for the last two playoff spots, all the favorites surprisingly lost their duels on Tuesday.

Michalovce, the newcomer of the season which leads the pack with 78 points, lost in Nove Zamky 4-2.

The visitors who have no chance of reaching the upcoming playoffs managed to answer Nove Zamky's opening goal with two of their own but the home team rallied and turned the game around with three consecutive goals.

Miskolc, one of the two Hungarian teams playing in the Slovak premier league, did not take advantage of Michalovce's stumble and still trails it by three points after the last-ranked Detva managed to snap its four-game winning streak in a last-period rally when Rastislav Gaspar turned the game around by completing his hat-trick, scoring all the goals of the visitors in the 3-2 victory.

Elsewhere, Nitra had the chance to tie Miskolc's 75 points in the fight for the last playoff spot but also failed its mission, succumbing to the other Hungarian team, Budapest, 4-3.

The home team's Slovakian forward Tomas Klempa became the hero of the match, scoring the game-winner 90 seconds before the final siren, his second of the night.

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