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The continental hockey league (KHL) unit Riga “Dinamo” today continues its first trip of this season with a game against Khabarovsk “Amur”, which is currently fighting without success.
The game started at 12 noon Latvian time and will be broadcast live on TV3 Sport 2.
The people of Riga have won one victory in four games at the beginning of the season. First, with the debut of the head coach Pēteris Skudrs, “Dinamo” conceded to the Kazakh team “Nursultan” “Baris” with 2: 3 at home, in the next match with 1: 3 he acknowledged the superiority of Helsinki “Jokerit” represented by goalkeeper Jānis Kalniņš, but in the third game with 4: 3 attacker Kaspars Daugaviņš represented by the Moscow region “Vitjaz”.
Meanwhile, in the first away game, the Rigans missed the three-goal lead and in extra time conceded 3: 4 with Novosibirsk’s “Sibirj”.
“Dinamo” did not play the fourth home game against “Neftehimik” in Nizhny Novgorod last Friday, because four guests from Russia, shortly after arriving in Latvia, were diagnosed with Covid-19. This fight has been postponed indefinitely.
Amur has already managed to suffer six losses this season. The season started with a loss against Cherepovets ‘Severstall’ (4: 6), but also lost to Yaroslavl’s Lokomotiv, Omsk’s Avangard, Magnitagorsk’s Metallurg, as well as the Moscow teams CSKA and Dinamo.
The two KHL teams have competed 29 times, of which “Dinamo” have won in 15 games. In the previous season, the Riga team was superior in both meetings, winning once in overtime, but a second time in “bulls”.
Pēteris Skudra and his assistants have taken with them to these games: goalkeepers – Stanislav Galimov, Ilya Proskurjakov and Bruno Brewer; guards – Matthew Mayon, Morgan Ellis, Kristaps Sotnieki, Kristaps Zīlis, Ondržejs Vitasek, Andrew O’Brien, Ernest Ošenieks, Rice Scarlet and Jānis Jaks; attackers – Lauri Dārziņš, Mika Indraši, Mikēlis Rēdlihs, Zekas Mičels, Konstantins Komareks, Gints Meijs, Mārtiņš Dzierkala, Emīls Ģegers, Daniels Bērziņš, Renārs Krastenbergs, Patrick Zabusovs, Denis Paršins, Pāvels Vaernovs.
Due to a minor injury, the attacker Jesse Lipon remained in Riga, as did the recently signed attackers Gennady Stolarov and Eugene Gračov. Roberts Mamčics will continue to play in the farm club “Zemgale” / LLU, but the young Reinis Liepiņš, Deniss Fjodorovs, Kaspars Ziemiņš, Danila Larionovs are in the team of the Russian Youth Hockey League (MHL) “Riga”.
In July, Latvian specialist Pēteris Skudra was appointed the head coach of “Dinamo”, but he is assisted by the head coach of the Russian Youth Hockey League (MHL) team “Rīga” last season, Raimonds Vilkoits and his assistant Aleksandrs Nizhivijs. This week, the team led by Skudra was joined by Russian defender Dmitry Parhomenko, Belarusian goalkeeper specialist Andrei Kudin and video coach from Russia Igor Makarov.
Last season, Dinamo took the penultimate place in the Western Conference and in the entire league, not qualifying for the Gagarin Cup for the sixth year in a row.
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