GDT: Group B - May 18 - Italy vs Norway

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2019 IIHF World Championship
Group B

May 18
10:15 AM ET • 4:15 PM CET

Italy vs Norway

Italy
Last game's lineup

Goaltenders:
30 Marco de Filippo Roia
1 Andreas Bernard

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

Forwards:
3 Markus Gander - 19 Raphael Andergassen - 88 Tomasso Traversa
94 Angelo Miceli - 22 Diego Kostner - 8 Marco Insam
81 Anthony Bardaro - 91 Marco Rosa - 47 Joachim Ramoser
63 Alex Lambacher - 13 Peter Hochkofler - 46 Ivan Deluca
23 Simon Kostner

Scratched:
G 35 Gianluca Vallini
D 7 Jan Pavlu
F 16 Giovanni Morini


Norway
Last game's lineup

Goaltenders:
38 Henrik Holm
33 Henrik Haukeland

Defensemen:
6 Jonas Holøs - 47 Alexander Bonsaksen
5 Erlend Lesund - 17 Stefan Espeland
4 Johannes Johannesen - 21 Christian Bull
49 Christian Kåsastul - 10 Mattias Nørstebø

Forwards:
41 Patrick Thoresen - 46 Mathis Olimb - 13 Sondre Olden
8 Mathias Trettenes - 85 Michael Haga - 93 Thomas Valkvæ Olsen
61 Alexander Reichenberg - 18 Tobias Lindström - 27 Andreas Martinsen
22 Martin Røymark - 26 Kristian Forsberg - 28 Niklas Roest

Scratched:
G 31 Jonas Arntzen
F 51 Mats Rosseli Olsen
F 15 Tommy Kristiansen


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[Retroglyphs]

Team Norway's success vs. Austria came as a big surprise to me. They are clearly stronger than Team Italy in my books, and should win with 5:2 or so.

 

[BalticWarrior]

The only thing thats interesting about this game will be to find out whether or not Italy will finally score a goal in this tournament.

 

[baronsforever]

Norway's 14th straight year at this level, no real danger of relegation but I don't think they are really that happy with how it has gone. Realistically they could lose by a goal and still be safe, if Italy ever does score.
I guess they could still win against Latvia which could put them in the top 10 anyway, really don't know what their expectations were coming into this tournament

 

[PanniniClaus]

This is one of the weaker version of Norway I have seen. They have enough to stay up but that is about it.

 

[baronsforever]

This is one of the weaker version of Norway I have seen. They have enough to stay up but that is about it.

I think last year was worse, they did look competitive against Germany and Latvia, but had to fend off the Koreans to avoid relegation and ended up 13th. They will end up better this year, even 10th with a good result against Latvia, which is as high as they have been since 2012.

 

[Nexon]

I think last year was worse, they did look competitive against Germany and Latvia, but had to fend off the Koreans to avoid relegation and ended up 13th. They will end up better this year, even 10th with a good result against Latvia, which is as high as they have been since 2012.

Zero chance they will beat Latvia, man, they could be in book “How not to play hockey” along with Italy this year. Dreadful to watch, terrible play.

 

[Havre]

Yeah. Norway are poor. No development at all. The days when you could dream about the odd QF are definitely gone.

Even so happy to see them stay up.

 

[baronsforever]

Zero chance they will beat Latvia, man, they could be in book “How not to play hockey” along with Italy this year. Dreadful to watch, terrible play.

And Latvia looked better against Austria and Italy? Marginal difference at best, though I still think Latvia wins that game. Hard to know though when it will make absolutely no difference to either team.

 

[Nexon]

Yeah. Norway are poor. No development at all. The days when you could dream about the odd QF are definitely gone.

Even so happy to see them stay up.

Maybe it could be helpful for them to go down once, hopefully it may help restarting their Hockey program.

 

[Nexon]

And Latvia looked better against Austria and Italy? Marginal difference at best, though I still think Latvia wins that game. Hard to know though when it will make absolutely no difference to either team.

I dont dismiss that Latvia is that is not scoring much, but they are able to convert good chances and they are level above Norway on defence and goaltending. Latvia had 65 shots on goal vs Italy, Italians had less than 20? Today Norge has roughly just 10 more shots than Italy.

 

[AwesomePanthers]

Team Norway's success vs. Austria came as a big surprise to me. They are clearly stronger than Team Italy in my books, and should win with 5:2 or so.

Norway has played QF several times over the last 15 years, so even if our team isnt as good as it used to. Its not a surprise that we beat Austria.

Congrats to Italy on their first goal.

 

[Retroglyphs]

Norway has played QF several times over the last 15 years, so even if our team isnt as good as it used to. Its not a surprise that we beat Austria.

Congrats to Italy on their first goal.

For me, it came as a surprise b/c I saw both teams playing at last year's WHC. But congrats anyway, happy for the Norwegians!

 

[baronsforever]

Norway made the QF in 2008, 2011, and 2012, their only times. That was one good group that got better together that has been fading ever since. That 2011 team were really good; they beat Sweden, and Switzerland, lost a close one to Canada, and gave Finland a really good game in the quarters.

 

[Havre]

Maybe it could be helpful for them to go down once, hopefully it may help restarting their Hockey program.

I don’t think so. Not enough rinks and no willingness to build more. Hockey is seen as a sport for the “less intelligent” it seems among politicians in Norway.

Teams Norway used to be competitive against like Germany, Denmark, Latvia etc have all kicked on or at least seem to have a bit of a positive spiral in terms of long term improvements.

 

[Nexon]

I don’t think so. Not enough rinks and no willingness to build more. Hockey is seen as a sport for the “less intelligent” it seems among politicians in Norway.

Teams Norway used to be competitive against like Germany, Denmark, Latvia etc have all kicked on or at least seem to have a bit of a positive spiral in terms of long term improvements.

Ok, give that space to some other teams which will take it more seriously and invest in sport.

 

[Gianpaolo]

In my opinion the refs should have call a penalty against team Italy for refusing to play in the third period. This is not acceptable.

 

[member 305909]

Imagine if Italy was next year's host and therefore safe from relegation.

 

[Gianpaolo]

Congrats to Italy on their first goal.

How that goal was scored (a deflection made by a player skating on his own way in front of the net) was symptomatic for the poor offensive skills in the team.

 

[PanniniClaus]

Italy need to go back down. Belarus and the Kazaks will push the Austrians, Norweigans and the French.

 

[Name Nameless]

Ok, give that space to some other teams which will take it more seriously and invest in sport.

Norway takes sports deadly serious, the tongue-in-cheek on sports in Norway, is that it is the true religion.

A very few sports are just not into the big picture, hockey is on that short list. Still, having just one star in Zuccarello makes miracles for the attitude, and winning a couple of games in the worlds are very important.

 

[Havre]

I wish that was true.

If Norway have had a handful of NHL players maybe things could have changed. I don’t know. Reaching the QFs clearly didn’t matter much.

Or if Norway randomly ended up with a superstar. Zuccarello is great and generally speaking underrated, but he is not a proper superstar. Someone that would be in that top 5-10 best players in the world category.

I think Norway could be decent in hockey, but without investment it won’t happen. The odd player will come through, but never a team.

 

[member 305909]

Is this tournament noted in any way in the Norwegian sport-news?

 

[GettingYourMoms]

Miceli>Kakko

 

[Name Nameless]

Is this tournament noted in any way in the Norwegian sport-news?

It is, summaries are given in national news-broadcast, in the papers it's prominently in the sports-sections, sometimes even with frontpage pieces to make people notice it.

(edit-that's the papers front page as such, so you don't get me wrong. There has been many front pages in the sport-sections for the team)

Sport is generally covered as the most important news, and it's not unnoticed.