World Cup: A strong Cloutier is not enough to win against Slovenia

In the duel against the Slovenians, the Italians had an extremely difficult time from the start. Frederic Cloutier had to surpass himself time and again in the Azzurri goal. The North American native was preferred over Andreas Bernard and thus made his first competitive appearance for the Italian team. As the game progressed, he would become one of the main players with a total of 37 shots saved. However, he was initially powerless in the 14th minute when Jurij Repe directed an Urbas shot into the net on the power play.

In the second third, the Blue Team was initially forced onto the defensive. The reason was several unnecessary penalties. Once they had survived unscathed, the lightning-fast Giulio Scandella took off after a nice pass from Luca Frigo and put the puck into the net to make it 1-1. At this point 26 minutes had been played.

Afterwards, the duel was on a knife's edge for a long time before the Italians suffered another outnumbered game: Ziga Jeglic rounded Cloutier's goal and scored to make it 2-1. Slovenia now remained in control and rarely allowed their opponents to get in front of their own goal. When Larkin had to go into the “cooler” shortly before the end, the Eastern Europeans closed the bag. Sabahudin Kovacevic hit the empty goal and made the final score 3-1.

Slovenia – Italy 3:1 (1:0, 0:1, 2:0)

Slovenia : Kroselj (R.Kristan); Kovacevic-Kranjc; Repe Gregorc; Pretnar Vidamar; Milanović; Jeglic-Hebar-Ticar; Verlic-Pance-Urbas; Kuralt Music Ograjensek; Pesut-Koblar-Ropret; Coach: Nik Zupancic

Italy : Cloutier (Andreas Bernard); McMonagle-Egger, Trivellato-Larkin, Hofer-Helfer, Zanatta-Marchetti; Insam-Anton Bernard-Frigo, Scandella-Andergassen-Tudin, Gander-Traversa-Ramoser, Magnabosco-Diego Kostner-Simon Kostner; Coach: Stefan Mair

Tore : 1:0 Repe (14th), 1:1 Scandella (27th), 2:1 Jeglic (46th), 3:1 Kovacevic (60th)

Ice Hockey World Championships 1st Division in Katowice (POL):

Saturday April 23th Poland – Italy 1:3 (0:1, 1:1, 0:1) Slovenia – Japan 1:7 (0:1, 0:4, 1:2) South Korea – Austria 2:3 nP (1:0, 1:0, 0:2, 0:0)

Sunday April 24th Slovenia - Italy (1:0, 0:1, 2:0) Poland - South Korea (16.30 p.m.) Austria - Japan (20 p.m.)

The table:

1. Slovenia 6 points (+1 game) 2. Italy 3 (+1 game) 3. Austria 2 4. South Korea 1 5. Poland 0 6. Japan 0

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