Numbers don't lie: these are the Azzurri's World Cup figures

For the Italian national team, the World Cup in Riga ended on Tuesday with the 7th and final preliminary round game. The Azzurri were last in many rankings, as the following figures prove. 0 points beat Italy in the 7 preliminary round games. The Azzurri had already finished the title fight in Quebec without a point in 2008. The remaining 15 teams, however, all scored points in Riga. In Group A, Belarus and Great Britain had 4 points, while in Group B, Norway took 8th and penultimate place in the table with 7 points. 2 powerplay goals Anthony Bardaro and Co., who were on the ice 17 times or for 30.25 minutes with one man more, scored in Riga. With a power play rate of 11,76 percent, Italy took 14th place. Belarus (11,11 percent) and Latvia (8,33 percent) also scored only twice in the power play. Switzerland had the best power play, converting 2 of the 28 power play situations into a goal (10 percent). 3 scorer points collected 4 strikers from Italy. The ICE-proven Daniel Frank, Angelo Miceli, Luca Frigo and Alex Petan each scored 2 goals and prepared another goal. The top scorers after the preliminary round were the Slovakian Peter Cehlarik and the Canadian Connor Brown with 10 points each, followed by Liam Kirk (Great Britain) and Adam Henrique (Canada) with 9 points each. The most goals so far have been scored by Kirk, who netted 7 times. Brown leads the assist rating with 8 assists. 7 player of the Blue Team were pleased to receive a watch from sponsor Tissot: Luca Frigo (against Germany), Daniel Frank (Norway), Justin Fazio (Latvia), Daniel Glira (Finland), Alex Petan (Kazakhstan), Davide Fadani (Canada) and Stefano Giliati (USA) were recognized as the best players on their team after each game. 10 goals Interim coach Giorgio De Bettin's team suffered from being outnumbered and took last place with a penalty killing rate of 61,54 percent. In the 3:11 debacle against Kazakhstan alone, the opponent had the advantage 5 times. The USA was number 1 in the shorthanded game with an incredible 95,00 percent. 11 goals Italy scored in the preliminary round. Only Belarus hit the mark less often (10). The top scorer in the group stage was Russia with 28 goals. 11 South Tyroleans were in Italy's 26-man squad: goalkeeper Damian Clara, defenders Daniel Glira, Peter Spornberger and Alex Trivellato as well as strikers Raphael Andergassen, Ivan Deluca, Daniel Frank, Markus Gander, Thomas Galimberti, Peter Hochkofler and Simon Pitschieler. 18 penalty minutes the referees imposed on Stefano Giliati. This made the Italo the worst guy at the Azzurri. Only 6 players spent more time in the cooler. The Belarusian Nikita Komarow (39) received the most penalty minutes, followed by the Slovakian Kristian Pospisil (33) and the German Jonas Müller (31). 41 goals conceded Italy's goalkeeper Justin Fazio (28) and Davide Fadani (11) suffered losses (there were also 2 empty net goals). They were tested a total of 299 times and “only” blocked 86,29 percent of the shots (16th place). Great Britain conceded the second most goals (31). The USA had the best defense in the preliminary round, allowing only 8 goals. 76 penalty minutes were imposed on the De Bettin squad (4th place): In addition to 28 two-minute penalties (record), Stefano Giliati and Peter Hochkofler were given a 10-minute disciplinary penalty. Belarus conceded the most penalty minutes (114), followed by Slovakia (98) and Germany (85). 86,54 percent The shots were fended off by Italy's number 1, Justin Fazio. The Italian-Canadian, who was the starting goalie in the first 6 games, took 18th place among all goalkeepers. Davide Fadani, who stood between the posts for a total of 116.18 minutes, had a catch rate of 87,64 percent. The best goalkeeper was the American Cal Petersen (95,96 percent of shots blocked). Behind them were the Finn Harri Sateri (95,52) and the Swede Adam Reiderborn (94,57). 104 shots Italy fired at their opponent's goal in the 7 preliminary round games. The Azzurri, who averaged just under 15 shots per game, took 16th and last place. Immediately ahead of them, Great Britain landed with 133 shots. Canada took first place (1 shots). 150.43 Minutes was Daniel Glira's ice time (an average of 21.31 minutes per game). The Puster defender, who made a total of 197 changes, was the long-running favorite at the bottom of Group B. He was followed by Alex Petan (144.54 minutes) and Anthony Bardaro (134.19 minutes). In contrast, Sebastiano Soracreppa's ice time was only 11.24 minutes.

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Numbers don't lie: these are the Azzurri's World Cup figures

The A World Cup for Italy ended without winning any points. But were the Azzurri really that weak? S+ dug into the statistics box.

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