(Chinese Ice Hockey Association-Liu Xi)The host country, China, came across its first opponent Japan in the play-off at 19:00pm April 9th,2008 at Baqu arena.

Both team are nervous in the opening minutes.Team China had many chances to shoot but lukiness didn't lean to its side. Two players were put on to the penalty bench from Team China in the last 3 minutes of the first period.Team Japan caught this break point and scored by no.11.

At the second period, Team China had such bad luck that they made no score despite many shot on-goals.Neither of them scored in the second period.

Sun Rui scored for Team China in the opening minutes of the third period. After that, both teams hadn't made scores for a long time. However , NO.17 scored for Japan at 17:04 into the period.Two minutes later, Team Japan made the third goal and brought the final 3-1.