Italy played two consecutive games against Slovenia in Bled (Anze Kopitar was on the ice). Both games ended 3:2, Italy won the first, Slovenia won the second.
Slovenia – Italy 2:3 (0:2; 1:1; 1:0)
15:20 (0:1) Marco Insam (Sean McMonagle/Angelo Miceli); 19:40 (0:2) Joachim Ramoser (Peter Hochkofler); 32:14 (1:2) Andrej Hebar (Repe Juri/Klemen Pretnar); 36:19 (1:3) Joachim Ramoser (Simon Kostner); 58:20 (2:3) Sabahudin Kovacevic in sup.num. (Anze Kopitar/Robert Sabolic);
Slovenia – Italy 3:2 (0:0; 0:1; 3:1)
25:43 (0:1) Ivan Deluca (Stefano Marchetti); 43:37 (0:2) Marco Insam PP (Diego Kostner/Angelo Miceli); 45:58 (1:2) Ken Ogranjesek (Anze Kuralt/Miha Verlic); 53:15 (2:2) Anze Kopitar (Jan Drozg/Robert Sabolic); 56:05 (3:2) Ken Ogranjesek (Miha Verlic) PK;
Andreas Bernard was the starting goalie in the first game, Marco De Filippo Roia in the second. The rest of the lineup was basically the same both times.
Sean McMonagle – Alex Trivellato
Ivan Tauferer – Luca Zanatta
Stefano Marchetti – Jan Pavlu
Enrico Miglioranzi (first game), Roland Hofer (second game) – Daniel Glira
Angelo Miceli – Diego Kostner – Marco Insam
Anthony Bardaro – Marco Rosa – Giovanni Morini
Simon Kostner – Alex Lambacher – Ivan Deluca
Peter Hochkofler – Tommaso Goi – Joachim Ramoser
Luca Frigo
Defensmen Armin Hofer, Armin Helfer and Thomas Larkin and forwards Raphael Andergassen and Markus Gander will join the team this Sunday (Larkin may be later).