HC Bolzano’s trip of northern Europe continues as they travel from the west coast of Sweden to the west coast of Finland, where they’ll visit Lukko Rauma for a Sunday matinée. Both of these teams were on opposite sides of three-goal scores in their openers on Friday.

Lukko fell behind early to visiting Lausanne HC before rallying back to win 4-1. Alex Beaucage had a goal and an assist and Steven Jandric scored on a penalty shot. Lukko limited a skilled Swiss team to just 18 shots on goal with homecoming veteran Antti Raanta stopping 17 of them.

Bolzano, on the other hand, were shut out 3-0 by Frölunda Gothenburg, although it was a very respectable effort that was 2-0 before a late empty-netter. Samuel Harvey stopped 32 of 34 shots that he faced, while defencemen Mark Barberio and Maxwell Heston Gildon each logged more than 20 minutes of ice time, with Gildon registering a team-high four shots on goal.

These two teams have met once before in the Champions Hockey League, in the Round of 16 back in 2021/22.