GDT: Group B - May 15 - Russia vs Italy

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2019 IIHF World Championship
Group B

May 15
2:15 PM ET • 8:15 PM CET

Russia vs Italy

Russia
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
88 Andrei Vasilevsky
40 Alexandar Georgiyev

Defensemen:
98 Mikhail Sergachyov - 89 Nikita Nesterov
9 Dmitry Orlov - 22 Nikita Zaitsev
3 Dinar Khafizullin - 4 Vladislav Gavrikov
61 Nikita Zadorov

Forwards:
25 Mikhail Grigorenko - 11 Yevgeni Malkin - 63 Yevgeni Dadonov
8 Alexander Ovechkin - 92 Yevgeni Kuznetsov - 64 Alexander Barabanov
97 Nikita Gusev - 15 Artyom Anisimov - 86 Nikita Kucherov
71 Ilya Kovalchuk - 13 Sergei Andronov - 77 Kirill Kaprizov
7 Ivan Telegin

Scratched:
G 31 Ilya Sorokin
F 16 Sergei Plotnikov


Italy
Confirmed lineup

Goaltenders:
1 Andreas Bernard
30 Marco de Filippo Roia

Defensemen:
6 Sean McMonagle - 26 Armin Helfer
12 Ivan Tauferer - 55 Luca Zanatta
5 Alex Trivellato - 7 Jan Pavlu
9 Armin Hofer - 25 Stefano Marchetti

Forwards:
94 Angelo Miceli - 22 Diego Kostner - 8 Marco Insam
81 Anthony Bardaro - 91 Marco Rosa - 47 Joachim Ramoser
3 Markus Gander - 19 Raphael Andergassen - 46 Ivan Deluca
63 Alex Lambacher - 13 Peter Hochkofler - 23 Simon Kostner

Scratched:
G 35 Gianluca Vallini
F 16 Giovanni Morini


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[Retroglyphs]

Team Russia 20 - Team Italy 0

 

[Outofbodyinhungary]

25-0 for Russia, half of Italian team switches side mid game to honour their history

 

[Namejs]

This might be a record blowout defeat in Elite tier history.

20-0 is actually not out of question.

No offense to Italian fans, but Italy is the worst team I've seen play at this level.

 

[TheGoldenJet]

This might be a record blowout defeat in Elite tier history.

20-0 is actually not out of question.

No offense to Italian fans, but Italy is the worst team I've seen play at this level.

Italy beat GB twice in the prelims iirc.

 

[Lambo]

13:0

 

[Namejs]

Italy beat GB twice in the prelims iirc.

I haven't seen any GB games yet

Their GD is pretty similar - 1:20 vs. 0:20

 

[ViD]

Won’t be anything extraordinary.

6-0 or 6-1

 

[Rillijuti]

Vasilevski or Georgiev?

 

[Kshahdoo]

Vasilevski or Georgiev?

As far as I know, it's Vasilevskiy

 

[PanniniClaus]

No idea what the final will be. It won't be a masterpiece no matter what.

 

[AB13]

Team Russia 20 - Team Italy 0

Holy f*ck that’s a bit much. Russia 8-0 Italy seems more reasonable

 

[Retroglyphs]

Italy beat GB twice in the prelims iirc.

How did they do that?

 

[Tomas W]

This might be a record blowout defeat in Elite tier history.

20-0 is actually not out of question.

No offense to Italian fans, but Italy is the worst team I've seen play at this level.

Have you watched GB, lol.

 

[Gianpaolo]

No offense to Italian fans, but Italy is the worst team I've seen play at this level.

That's the consequence of a lot of bad decisions made by the Italian federation (coaching staff, players). The team Italy had two years ago in Germany performed much better than this one. Players like Alex Egger, Thomas Larkin and Giulio Scandella are now retired or injured, but this does not explain such a big difference.

 

[MapleAce]

If Andreas Bernard makes same effort than yesterday, it could end under 10 to Russia...

 

[Urbanskog]

It's absurd to suggest that Russia could be anywhere close to winning by 20 goals.

 

[Urbanskog]

This might be a record blowout defeat in Elite tier history.

The record is 47:0 between Canada and Denmark in 1949 so I am somewhat skeptical.

 

[GX]

If Andreas Bernard makes same effort than yesterday, it could end under 10 to Russia...

It would be hard to imagine Bernard starting vs Russia after facing 65 shots the previous night. He might have to take over, though, at some point during the game.

 

[Atas2000]

Vasilevski or Georgiev?

Vasilevskiy will start confirmed. He needs games to stay in game shape.

 

[aonb]

Vasilevskiy will start confirmed. He needs games to stay in game shape.

since you are more into Team Russia, what about Kaprizov? only one or two shifts in game vs Czech. Barabanov on the other hand 18 minutes of TOI. is he really this good (barabanov) to skates 18 min while Kaprizov (proven goalscorer) sits on the bench? telegin and andronov are role players i guess. or maybe its injury-related thing or they just resting him after long season in KHL?

 

[jaro]

This will be not big drama show i guess

 

[Atas2000]

since you are more into Team Russia, what about Kaprizov? only one or two shifts in game vs Czech. Barabanov on the other hand 18 minutes of TOI. is he really this good (barabanov) to skates 18 min while Kaprizov (proven goalscorer) sits on the bench? telegin and andronov are role players i guess. or maybe its injury-related thing or they just resting him after long season in KHL?

Andronov is really good at the dot. The best center on team Russia, while that's not a great feat. Russian top centers aren't great at faceoffs. Malkin, Kuznetsov, Anisimov... So Andronov is a valuable role player and n adequate 4th line center. Telegin is also obviously a 4th liner all the way. Grit, speed, energy, but less skill.

Kaprisov got demoted by the coach for no apparent reason. It is painfully obvious that among the superstars on that team Ovechkin and Kuznnetsov underperform big time so far. And obviously Kaprizov wasn't the reason for that.Nonetheless Vorobiev decided to replace him with Barabanov on that line with obvious outcome. No production. Barabanov is a good player in his own right, but not Kaprizov caliber and if the superstars on the line don't come out of the slump Barabanov won't solve that.

Today's skate had Kaprizov skating on the 4th line with Kovalchuk and Andronov. Let's see how that pans out.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Hopefully Italy will come out and give it their best shot. They are professionals with pride.

They know they are out matched.

 

[Alex K]

I don't think Russia will push hard. I expect something like 5-0, maybe 6-0.