First day of the Championship and the result does not reflect in any way the image of the game. An unfair defeat for the National team that lost to Ireland 6-3. The game was undecided in the first 2 periods. The Greek National Team seemed to out-play Ireland, taking 41 shots and it appeared that they can walk away with the victory. But unfortunately a bad third period cost the Greeks the game.

The points of the National Team:

#	Name	Goals	Assists	Points
21	Dimitris Kalyvas (C)	0	2	2
17	Panagiotis Koulouris	1	0	1
10	Alexandros Valsamas-Rallis	1	0	1
11	Orestis Tilios (A)	1	0	1
24	Nikolaos Papadopoulos	0	1	1

Panagiotis Koulouris was named MVP of the National Team

In the other matches of Day 1:
DPR Korea – United Arab Emirates 5 – 3
Luxembourg – South Africa 2 – 5