Sirianni leads Italy to their opening win against Austria

The “Azzurri” mastered the first official appearance of the new ice hockey season with flying colors. The deciding factor in the 3-2 win against the ÖEHV team was the Italian-Canadian Rob Sirianni, who comes from Edmonton and was on the scoresheet three times on his international debut. Selection coach Rick Cornacchia gave Thomas Tragust confidence between the posts while he let all the field players pass through.

The starting third of the opening encounter was already very even, with Austria missing three and Italy missing two outnumbered situations. The spell finally broke in the middle section: After a pass from Kiristis and Heinrich, Daniel Nageler gave the Red-White-Reds the lead with a double majority (30.19). However, Italy were unimpressed and struck back four minutes later through Rob Sirianni. The former Bruneck goalkeeper Swette didn't give any chance to the preparatory work from Rocco and Gander.

But Sirianni's hunger for goals was far from satisfied, as with a double strike after 49.48 and 53.05 minutes he completed his hat trick on his debut in the azure blue jersey. A little later, Nageler led the Austrians back to 2:3, but the stable back line of the “Blue Team” left nothing to be desired in the final phase.

After their opening win against their neighboring country, Italy will face Hungary on Saturday at 17.30:3 p.m. The hosts of the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge have made it their mission to take revenge for the defeat in the decisive game of the B World Cup last April. Today Hungary lost its first game against Japan with 5:XNUMX goals.

Austria – Italy 2:3 (0:0, 1:1, 1:2) 1:0 Daniel Nageler (30.19), 1:1 Rob Sirianni (34.55), 1:2 Rob Sirianni (49.48), 1:3 Rob Sirianni (53.05), 2:3 Daniel Nageler (54.42)

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Sirianni leads Italy to their opening win against Austria

The Italian national ice hockey team started the Euro Ice Hockey Challenge 3 in Hungary with a 2-2011 win against Austria

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