Slovakia vs Italy
· Sunday, February 8, 1998 · The Big Hat
SlovakiaAway
4–3
Final22–28
ItalyHome
Game summary
The Slovakia beat the Italy 4–3 on Sunday, February 8, 1998 at The Big Hat. The Italy outshot the Slovakia 28–22.
Vlastimil Plavucha scored a hat trick. Stefano Figliuzzi, Dino Felicetti, Robert Petrovicky and Mario Chitaroni also scored.
Igor Murin made 0 saves on 28 shots for the win; Mario Brunetta stopped 0 of 8.
| Goals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SVK | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 22 |
| ITA | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 28 |
Scoring
1st period
Vlastimil Plavucha (1)Lubomir Sekeras (2)1–006:41 SVK
Stefano Figliuzzi (1)Leo Insam (1)1–108:50 ITA · 
Dino Felicetti (2)Maurice Mansi (1), Mike Deangelis (1)1–211:56 ITA
2nd period
- Vlastimil Plavucha (2)Jozef Dano (1)2–201:23 SVK
Robert Petrovicky (2)Unassisted3–202:00 SVK- Vlastimil Plavucha (3)Lubomir Sekeras (3), Zdeno Ciger (1)4–203:36 SVK
Mario Chitaroni (1)Roland Ramoser (1)4–319:13 ITA
Team stats
SVKITA
2228
0%0%
0/61/3
1220
00
00
00
00
Penalties
- 8:00 into the first periodZdeno Ciger · slashing2 min
- 9:52 into the first periodVlastimil Plavucha · interference2 min
- 13:48 into the first periodRobert Nardella · slashing2 min
- 14:59 into the first periodMario Chitaroni · hooking2 min
- 3:46 into the second periodLubomir Visnovsky · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3:46 into the second periodLubomir Sekeras · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3:46 into the second periodDino Felicetti · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 3:46 into the second periodStefano Figliuzzi · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 4:56 into the second periodBruno Zarrillo · tripping2 min
- 14:06 into the second periodMiroslav Mosnar · holding the stick2 min
- 16:37 into the second periodJoe Busillo · kneeing2 min
- 19:13 into the second periodJozef Dano · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 19:13 into the second periodRoland Ramoser · unsportsmanlike conduct2 min
- 5:02 into the third periodMike Deangelis · hooking2 min
- 14:47 into the third periodGaetano Orlando · tripping2 min
- 20:00 into the third periodMario Chitaroni · roughing2 min
Slovakia
| 9Vlastimil PlavuchaR | 3 | 0 | 3 | +1 | 3 | – |
| 7Lubomir SekerasD | 0 | 2 | 2 | +2 | 1 | – |
| 19Robert PetrovickyC | 1 | 0 | 1 | +1 | 2 | – |
| 20Zdeno CigerL | 0 | 1 | 1 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 29Jozef DanoL | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 10Otto HascakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 13Roman StantienC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 15Peter PucherC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 21Branislav JanosL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 22Roman KontsekL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 24Jan PardavyR | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 28Lubomir KolnikC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 35Karol RusznyakC | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 1 | – |
| 5Miroslav MosnarD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | – |
| 6Lubomir VisnovskyD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 8Stanislav JaseckoD | 0 | 0 | 0 | +1 | 0 | – |
| 27Jan VarholikD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 33Ivan DroppaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Igor MurinG | W | 28 | 3 | .893 |
| 2Pavol RybarG | 0 | 0 | .000 |
Italy
| 9Dino FelicettiR | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 11Roland RamoserR | 0 | 1 | 1 | −1 | 0 | – |
| 12Maurice MansiR | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 24Mario ChitaroniC | 1 | 0 | 1 | −1 | 5 | – |
| 91Stefano FigliuzziC | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 5Leo InsamD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 37Mike DeangelisD | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | – |
| 16Bruno ZarrilloL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 17Gaetano OrlandoC | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 19Patrick BrugnoliC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 21Joe BusilloL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 1 | – |
| 22Stefano MargoniL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 27Lucio TopatighL | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 28Martin PavluL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 77Markus BrunnerC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 4Robert OberrauchD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – |
| 7Robert NardellaD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 3 | – |
| 25Chad BiaforeD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | – |
| 26Larry RucchinD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −1 | 2 | – |
| 29Chris BartoloneD | 0 | 0 | 0 | −2 | 2 | – |
| Goalie | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Mario BrunettaG | L | 8 | 4 | .500 |
| 34Michael RosatiG | 14 | 0 | 1.000 |