Men's Ice Hockey IIHF World Championship 2019

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Road to Bratislava/Košice

 

Exhibition Games

May 2nd, 2019

(8 Days to Go)

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Czech Republic - Finland  2-3

(Played as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2018/19)

 

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6 hours ago, hckosice said:

Road to Bratislava/Košice

 

Exhibition Games

May 2nd, 2019

(8 Days to Go)

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Czech Republic - Finland  2-3

(Played as part of the Euro Hockey Tour 2018/19)

 

All those NHL players Czech's had... We just needed 1 team to beat them 
I know for sure though, that the hockey will be WAY more intense against Russia & defending WC Gold medalist Sweden.

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Road to Bratislava/Košice

 

Team Presentation

 

(7 Days to Go)

 

 

Czech Republic

 

 

 

Team Jersey

 

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Away

 

 

 

 

Medal Record

 

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Road to Bratislava/Košice

 

Exhibition Games

May 3rd, 2019

(7 Days to Go)

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France - Italy   6-2

Switzerland - Latvia   4-1

 

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Road to Bratislava/Košice

 

Team Presentation

 

(6 Days to Go)

 

 

Finland

 

 

 

Team Jersey

 

Home

 

 

 

Away

 

 

 

 

Medal Record

 

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TEAM ITALY

 

 

Goaltenders:

 

Gianluca Vallini (Wipptal Broncos, AlpsHL)

Marco De Filippo Roia (SG Cortina, AlpsHL)

Andreas Bernard (Adler Mannheim, )

 

Defencers:

 

Armin Helfer (HC Val Pusteria, AlpsHL)

Armin Hofer (HC Val Pusteria, AlpsHL)

Stefano Marchetti (HC Bolzano, EBEL)

Ivan Tauferer (Rittner Buam, AlpsHL)

Luca Zanatta (EHC Olten, Div. II, )

Alex Trivellato (Krefeld Pinguine, )

Jan Pavlu (Heilbronner Falken, Div. II, )

Sean McMonagle (Frisk Asker, )

 

Forwards:

 

Markus Gander (HC Val Pusteria, AlpsHL)

Raphael Andergassen (HC Val Pusteria, AlpsHL)

Ivan De Luca (HC Bolzano, EBEL)

Marco Insam (HC Bolzano, EBEL)

Angelo Miceli (HC Bolzano, EBEL)

Peter Hochkofler (EC Salzburg, EBEL, )

Anthony Robert Bardaro (Asiago Hockey 1935, AlpsHL)

Marco Rosa Gonzales (Asiago Hockey 1935, AlpsHL)

Diego Kostner (HC Ambri Piotta, )

Simon Kostner (Rittner Buam, AlpsHL)

Alex Lambacher (Heilbronner Falken, Div. II, )

Joachim Ramoser (ERC Ingolstadt, )

Giovanni Morini (HC Lugano, )

Tommaso Traversa (HC Val Pusteria, AlpsHL)

[hckošice 14,790]

Another team to unveil their final roster is Italy.

 

so let have a quick brief recap:

 

 

 

The coach Clayton Beddoes announced a full team of 25 players, 22+3 so the complete roster.

 

The main part of the team is formed from 11 players of the local Alps Hockey League.

 

The top star of the team will be probably the galtender Andreas Bernard who started the last season in when he was the #1 goaltender of ässät pori, but then finished the season with some good numbers in the german DEL team Adler Mannheim.

 

As it was a tradition in the past, we can find quite a lot of naturalized north americans in the final Italian roster.

 

5 Players of the team played last season in the EBEL league, 2 in the NLA.

 

The top scorer of the team should be obviously Giovanni Morini who scored 14 goals in last season for the HC Lugano. worth to mention is also Diego Kostner one of the legends of this team has played his 8th consecutive season in for Ambri Piotta

 

The oldest player of the team is the 37 years old Marco Rosa, who already played in the past in AHL, in or in top leagues, but only now this naturalized canadian will experience his debut with the Italian National Team.

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

Another team to unveil their final roster is Italy.

 

so let have a quick brief recap:

 

 

 

The coach Clayton Beddoes announced a full team of 25 players, 22+3 so the complete roster.

 

The main part of the team is formed from 11 players of the local Alps Hockey League.

 

The top star of the team will be probably the galtender Andreas Bernard who started the last season in when he was the #1 goaltender of ässät pori, but then finished the season with some good numbers in the german DEL team Adler Mannheim.

 

As it was a tradition in the past, we can find quite a lot of naturalized north americans in the final Italian roster.

 

5 Players of the team played last season in the EBEL league, 2 in the NLA.

 

The top scorer of the team should be obviously Giovanni Morini who scored 14 goals in last season for the HC Lugano. worth to mention is also Diego Kostner one of the legends of this team has played his 8th consecutive season in for Ambri Piotta

 

The oldest player of the team is the 37 years old Marco Rosa, who already played in the past in AHL, in or in top leagues, but only now this naturalized canadian will experience his debut with the Italian National Team.

 

to be honest, in the past few years (and this season is no exception), the number of non-Italian born players has lowered down dramatically...

 

this team, in particular, only has 5 "imported" players (Trivellato, who was born in Italy, but has dual citizenship ITA and GER, where he lived most of his life; McMonagle, who's Italian by marriage; Miceli, Bardaro and Rosa, who are Canadian born, but have taken advantage of their Italian heritage)...

 

even Zanatta, despite his father being the Canadian born former Italian NT player Ivano, was born and raised here in Italy (and then went to SUI to play in a more competitive league)...

 

all the other guys, even those with names that might sound not Italian at 100% are instead a full Italian product (all of them coming from the Italian and German dual speaking region of South Tyrol)...

 

p.s. Hochkofler's given name is Peter, not Thomas

 

p.p.s. about goal scoring ability, Bardaro is definitely the most talented sniper in this team...and also Lambacher is a more offensive oriented player than Morini (who's more a defensive forward than anything else, even if he's very quick on the skates and therefore he can score some goals on counter attacks)...

Edited May 4, 2019 by phelps

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Just now, phelps said:

 

to be honest, in the past few years (and this season is no exception), the number of non-Italian born players have lowered dramatically...

 

this team, in particular, only has 5 "imported" players (Trivellato, who was born in Italy, but has dual citizenship ITA and GER, where he lived most of his life; McMonagle, who's Italian by marriage; Miceli, Bardaro and Rosa, who are Canadian born, but have taken advantage of their Italian heritage)...

 

even Zanatta, despite his father being the Canadian born former Italian NT player Ivano, was born and raised here in Italy (and then went to SUI to play in a more competitive league)...

 

all the other guys, even those with names that might sound not Italian at 100% are instead a full Italian product (all of them coming from the Italian and German dual speaking region of South Tyrol)...

 

p.s. Hochkofler's given name is Peter, not Thomas

 

p.p.s. about goal scoring ability, Bardaro is definitely the most talented sniper in the this team...and also Lambacher is a more offensive oriented player than Morini (who's more a defensive forward than anything else, even if he's very quick on the skates and therefore he can score some goals on counter attacks)...

 

Thanks for all the informations

 

well, Morini is definitely the most famous, at least here.

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Just now, hckosice said:

 

Thanks for all the informations

 

well, Morini is definitely the most famous, at least here.

 

well, it's obvious, as he plays for a top tier club in a top tier league...

it's difficult to become famous abroad when you play in a small league with very few followers and no media attention...

 

Edited May 4, 2019 by phelps