Liberec played a good road game, pushing hard in the first, although we managed to get the puck in the net on probably our first or second shot on goal. The fast pace and the clutch and grab that went unpunished in that period was enough for Liberec to go into the second comfortable in the knowledge that they would level the game and go on to win. Our lack of fitness (or skating ability) showed, and frustrations with the reffing and delays caused by the (CHL ?) scorer getting flustered boiled over and we started to panic, making silly passes, giving the puck away or simply getting turned over like we would to a team like Edinburgh.
The third saw some of the worst reffing, which allowed the white tigers to basically finish us off in clinical style. How Darnell could either call some of the things he did AND miss things that should have been called I don't know. As for Josh I didn't see what happened, but I feel he probably got the right punishment, but he must feel hard done by given some of the antics that neither ref called.
Oh well, Had the panthers not beaten Mountfield twice I would probably feel as though we have dipped out toes into european competition, and will know what to expect in the future. As it is I feel we should have taken point or points from one of the Liberec games. I really hope Davos don't punish us too hard on Sunday!