Pato Gómez tied the game with a hat trick. Fermin Javier reached 50 career goals. And Blanco's offense erupted for six in Season 6 regular season finale, handing Azul a 6-3 defeat that snapped the leaders' unbeaten run and secured second place. With the regular season complete, the stage is set: Azul heads straight to the final as top seed, while Blanco and Negro will meet in the semifinal.
Blanco drew first blood when Rodrigo Cueña deflected in a Patricio Rincón feed at 11:45 of the opening period. Gómez answered with a Ricardo de la Torre setup at 1:30 to level it, but Blanco had the last word in the frame — Antonio Zamora buried an unassisted strike with 40 seconds remaining to send them into the break up 2-1. The second period was scoreless, with both goalies keeping things tight and the gap unchanged heading to the third.
Fermin Javier struck early in the third at 14:10 to extend the lead to 3-1. Then Gómez took over. He scored at 9:07 and found the net again at 8:22 — unassisted — to complete the hat trick and tie the game at 3-3, extending his record point streak to 18 consecutive games. The momentum felt like it was shifting. Andrés Mata had other ideas: he scored the go-ahead goal at 6:55 off a Phillipe Nadeau feed to give Blanco the lead for good. Mata added a second at 3:34, and Fermin closed out the night at 1:20 with his second goal of the evening — the 50th of his career — as the five-edition veteran became one of Sunday Night's most prolific goal scorers across his time in Sunday Night.
Blanco split goaltending duties, Mateo Guzman was outstanding — stopping 12 of 13 shots for a 92.3% save percentage with Juan Pablo Cazares handling the second half of the game (9 saves on 11 shots) to secure the win. Nicolas López made 23 saves on 29 shots in the loss for Azul. Despite the result, Azul finishes the regular season in commanding form at 13 points, and Gómez heads into the playoffs sitting at 98 career points — two away from a century mark that no Sunday Night player has ever reached.