Oceláři Třinec came back from a two-goal deficit, scoring four in the third, to win it 5-3 and improve to 2-0 on the season while the Rouen Dragons dropped their second contest.

Play picked up in Northern France with the visitors breaking the ice at 11:16. What seemed like a harmless play from the neutral zone led to Marko Daňo firing the puck from the centre red line where it took a bizarre bounce off the referee as it made its way into the Rouen net.

But the Czechs' lead wouldn't be long-lived as a little over four minutes later Marc-Olivier Duquette tied things up when he capped off a beautiful tic-tac-toe play from the slot. Robin Colomban found Jared Dmytriw who dealt it back to Duquette who wired it past Ondřej Kacetl.

The French continued pacing their opponents in the second period, scoring twice in quick succession.

Tomas Simonsen netted his second of the tournament on the powerplay to give Rouen the lead eleven minutes into the middle frame. The 21-year-old winger made it 2-1 when he received a pass at the top of the near circle and snapped it low stick side.

Then, two minutes later, with Rouen occupying extensive zone time in Třinec's end, it was Anthony Rech lighting the lamp with his first of the year. Jordan Hervé fought off a defender down low and then slid the puck to Rech who ripped one from between the hash marks to extend his club's advantage.

Still trailing by two to start the third, the visitors wasted no time in cutting into the deficit, striking twice in a little over two minutes.

First, a Martin Marinčin blast from the blueline found its way past a screened Oskari Setänen. Rouen would challenge it for goaltender interference, but the call was upheld. Třinec, then, went on to tie it up moments later when Petr Vrána fluttered one past the Finnish netminder.

After giving his squad the lead to start things, Daňo would once again pull his team ahead with a wrister from the slot. An errant puck found its way to the forward who lifted it far top corner for his second of the contest.

A savvy defensive play led to offence as the Czechs manufactured their fifth goal of the game off a steal in close. Daňo, again, was a part of the scoring when he lifted a Rouen stick that allowed for Libor Hudáček to gain possession as he turned and fired one on net to make it 5-3 with a little more than five minutes to go.

The French would go on the powerplay late in the contest but were unable to produce the same success they had earlier with the man-advantage as they went on the concede another game in front of their home crowd.