FC Barcelona (Spain) and HC Herzliya Ice Time (Israel) closed the first day of the opening round of the 2009/10 Continental Cup. The Spanish team has come to Ankara with the ambition of advancing to the next stage while the Israeli champion, Herzliya, for various reasons basically participate with a junior team. This provided for a very uneven playing-field as the Israeli juniors were busy just getting the puck out of their own zone in most of the game. Indeed, this tactics only worked for three minutes when Juan Munoz scored the first goal. The result of the first period, 6-0, speaks for itself. Perhaps even more telling, Herzliya only managed to get their first shot on the Spanish goal after 16 minutes. The onerous game continued in the middle frame. Here, Barcelona scored after only 20 seconds and added another four while missing a lot of chances. In the second period, Herzliya did however miss a penalty shot (even twice), but finally managed to get on the scoreboard with 4 seconds remaining of the period (goal by Valeri Silutin after a shot from player/coach, Artiom Korotkin). In the third period, Barcelona slowed down and allowed much ice time to its young third line, and sparing its top lines for the tougher challenges ahead.

Barcelona - Herzliya 14-1 (6-0,5-1,3-0)
03:11 1-0 Juan Munoz
06:06 2-0 Vitaly Koulikov (Kosic,Didkovsky)
06:29 3-0 Marc Ribas
10:44 4-0 Enrique Zapata (Munoz,Kosic)PP
13:21 5-0 Danylo Didkovsky (Juan Munoz)
17:13 6-0 Juan Munoz (Danylo Didkovsky)
20:21 7-0 Mikael Boberg
21:46 8-0 Danylo Didkovsky (Munoz)
25:12 9-0 Jordi Bernet (E.Zapata,Didkovsky)
30:52 10-0 Jordi Bernet (Didkovsky,Trinidad)
33:12 11-0 Aleksandr Kosic (Munoz,Didkovsky)
36:23 Bar goalie changes
39:56 11-1 Dima Rozenman (Korotin,Siliutin)
41:57 12-1 Jordi Bernet (Ribas,Boberg)
46:33 HER changes goalie
56:08 13-1 Marc Ribas (Max Jentsch)
56:42 14-1 Ramon Morer
PIM: 5x2 - 3x2 SOG: 69-4