HC Davos starts 2013 home tournament against HC Vitkovice

In front of a sell out crowd HC Davos started their 2013 Spengler Cup campaign against last year's semi-finalist HC Vitkovice Steel with a blast as Davos scored two quick goals in the 3rd and 4th minute. The first goal was scored by Beat Forster, assisted by Peter Guggisberg. Goal two was scored by Dino Wieser who had no Vitkovice player standing in his way. The rest of the first period Davos was busy controlling their two-goal lead and had no problems doing so.

Period 2 started with a powerplay for HC Davos who installed their formation quickly but could not capitalize on any of the chances. But only moments after, Davos'  Robin Grossmann scored on an awkward shot that jumped over goalie Roman Malek. And only minutes later it was Gregory Hoffmann who scored on a Davos powerplay and made it 4:0, making it hard for Vitkovice to turn around the game. The second period ended with 2:0 goals for Davos.

In the last period it was Davos again to continue the scoring, making it 5:0 during a powerplay period. The shot came from the stick of Ville Koistonen directly from the blue line. And finally, a minute later, HC Vitkovice was able to shove the puck past Leonardo Genoni, Roman Szturc was the only scorer this evening for his team. With this Vitkovice will play against the second placed Team of Group Torriani which could be HC Genève Servette or CSKA Moscow. HC Davos will play Team Canada for first place in the Group Cattini. The winner will play the Rochester Americans who lost their second game against CSKA 4:3.

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