Keenan and Azzurri celebrate at the second attempt

After the Azzurri on Thursday with one Defeat to Ukraine After starting the tournament in Hungary, Mike Keenan's team celebrated their first victory under the new leadership on Friday evening. The successful coach rotated his team vigorously and experimented with new line combinations - and with success. Two goal scorers, defender Phil Pietroniro (HK Dukla Trencin) and Daniel Gellon (HC Meran), thanked the North American with a goal each in the 4-2 win against Slovenia. Special praise must also be given to goalkeeper Justin Fazio, who skilfully defused some dangerous situations. After the game, Alex Trivelato spoke of a process, which still needs time. But the Azzurri showed the Slovenians, who had several Ice Hockey League players in their squad, right from the start. In 5-on-5 the game was fairly even, but Daniel Mantenuto and Co. particularly shone in the outnumbered situations. Both goals in the first third came in the power play, both times the Azzurri increasingly restricted their opponents and finished ice-cold in the form of Mantenuto (9th) with a hammer-hard wrist shot and Phil Pietroniro over the left pad (17th).

Jutin Fazio was literally on his head in the Azzurri goal. © Sarkozy Photos

Slovenia defended itself accordingly and reduced the deficit to 1:2 seconds before the end of the first period through Luka Maver (20th), but Italy did not let this dissuade them and repeatedly stormed forward. This committed style of play was promptly rewarded. Rok Stojanovic in the Slovenian goal was unable to hold on to a shot from Cameron Ginnetti and Gellon sank the rebound into the net to make it 3-1 (34'). Mantenuto crowned his strong performance in the third period with his second goal of the evening to make it 2-4 for Italy (1th). Although Slovenia reduced the lead to 47-4 through Erik Svetina shortly before the end, this effort came too late, as the game ended with this score.

Slovenia – Italy 2:4 Italy's lineup: Fazio (Fadani); Miglioranzi-Di Perna, Glira-Pietroniro, Casetti-Gios, Demetz-Ginnetti; Frigo-Petan-Frank, Miceli-Mantenuto-Zanetti, Marchetti-Traversa-Brunner, Kasslatter-Gellon-Felicetti

Gates: 0:1 Mantenuto (8.11.), 0:2 Pietroniro (16.41), 1:2 Maver (19.51), 1:3 Gellon (33.02), 1:4 Mantenuto (46.48.)

The table Pos Team Games Points 1. Italy 2 4 2. France 1 3 3. Hungary 1 2 4. Ukraine 1 2 5. Japan 2 1 6. Slovenia 1 0

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Keenan and Azzurri celebrate at the second attempt

Italy's national ice hockey team convincingly won the second game of the six-nation tournament “Memorial Sarközy Tamas” on Friday evening.

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