Marco Rossi scores his first goal for Austria's senior national team.
Austria's national ice hockey team wins the dress rehearsal for the Olympic qualification. The ÖEHV selection prevailed in the test against Italy.
4: 1! Successful dress rehearsal for the A-Team. Austria beats Italy on Sunday in the second and final test before the qualifying tournament for the 2022 Winter Olympics. Austria will face Slovakia, Belarus and Poland in Bratislava from Thursday to Sunday. Only the winner of the group takes part in the Beijing Games.
One day after the 7-5 win against Hungary, Austria also won the test against Italy. In the 4-1 victory, the local hockey prodigy Marco Rossi can celebrate his first goal in the A-team.
Last year Rossi was drafted by the Minnesota Wild. He was out the whole year due to corona sequelae and is still waiting for his debut in the NHL. In the meantime 1: 1 against Italy, he proves his talent (10th). Raphael Herburger (34th), Lukas Haudum (56th) and Patrick Spannring (59th) ensure a clear home win in Vienna.
Team boss Roger Bader on ORF: “It was a completely different game than against Hungary. I'm not at all satisfied with the first third, we played too much across and diagonally and had too many target losses. From the second third we really got into Kneeled in the game and deserved to win. There was more resistance today, it was also important that we saw that things didn't work like in the first third. “
