Hungary started off well at the 2015 Inline world championships with a 5-1 win over Croatia.
Hungary started the Inline world championships in Finland against Croatia, head coach Attila Hoffmann gave Krisztán Budai the start for game one. Croatia took an early lead on a goal from Ivan Jankovic. Croatia held their one goal lead through the first period and deep into the second. The second period was even between the two teams, it wasn't until the closing minutes of the period when Imre Peterdi took a feed from Ákos Kiss and put the puck past the Croatian keeper to tie up the game. Hungary was on the power play in the closing seconds of the period, after cycling the puck around nicely Kiss was the recipient of pass that he rifled past the keeper to make it 2-1 with 4.1 seconds left in the half, Arnold Feil and Tamás Lencsés were credit with the assist. In the third period Hungary started to pull away as they looked like the better conditioned team. Early in the third period Kiss scored again to give Hungary a two goal lead. Hungary started to pull away in the third period on a second powerplay goal of the game, this time Attila Rafaj set up Sándor Szilárd who scored from close range.
In the fourth period Hungary looked to be the stronger team as they had puck possession but they visibly took their foot off the gas. Krisztián Budai stood tall as he had three shutout periods after the opening goal and was named player of the game for Hungary. In the closing seconds of the game Peterdi scored his second goal of the game to set the final at 5-1.
Hungary takes on Australia tomorrow night at 18:00, all information about the tournament can be found here.
Schedule
Hungary-Croatia: 5-1
Hungary-Great Britain 18:00 Monday
Hungary-Argentina 14:00 Tuesday
Roster:
Goalies: Krisztián Budai, Tamás Kiss
Skaters: Balázs Bartalis, Róbert Dömötör, Arnold Feil, Norbert Fekecs, Vílmos Galló, Ákos Kiss, Tamás Lencsés, Márton Mach, Zoltán Pál, Imre Peterdi, Attila Rafaj, Zoltán Revák, Szilárd Sándor, István Terbócs
Coaches: Attila Hoffmann, Imre Peterdi