Russian Youth Hockey League (MHL) unit “Riga“suffered a loss in the fifth game of the season on Thursday.
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The Rigans acknowledged the superiority of the Moscow “Krasnaya Army” team with 1: 6 (1: 1, 0: 4, 0: 1) away, ending the three victory series.
The home team took the lead in the seventh minute, but in the 14th minute Antons Siņegubovs in the majority reached 1: 1 with a shot from the middle of the zone. Following the match, the hosts scored five unanswered goals, once standing out in the minority.
On Monday, both teams will meet again, but after that “Riga” will play two more games with Mitišči “Atlant” unit.
The Riga team ranks seventh in the Western Conference with six points in five games.
Last season’s MHL team “Riga” head coach Raimonds Vilkoits and his assistant Alexander Niživijs joined the Continental Hockey League (KHL) team Riga “Dinamo” coaching staff, while Valērijs Kuļibaba and Sergejs Durdins took over their duties.
The Latvian team went to the first trip of the season with 25 hockey players, among whom three are goalkeepers, eight play in the position of a defender, but the other 14 are attackers.
The striker Deniss Fyodorov did not go out with the team due to illness, but Nikita Sažko stayed in Riga to continue training. Forward Jānis Švanenbergs must skip the first outing due to the current Russian entry rules. The attacker joined the team later, but the Russian side had to submit the entry list ten days before entering the country.
Goalkeeper Bruno Brūveris, defender Ernests Ošenieks and forward Patrick Zabusovs are training together with the KHL team “Dinamo”.
Last season, the Riga team took the seventh place in the regular championship in the Western Conference, but in the first round of the playoffs, Yaroslavl’s “Loko” gave up 0-3.
“Rīga” line-up for the first off-season:
goalkeepers – Reinis Liepiņš, Ēriks Vītols, Svens Sokolovskis;
guards – Artūrs Andžāns, Artūrs Brikmanis, Emīls Ginters, Nikita Matejko, Rūdolfs Spilva, Harijs Šmits, Miks Tumānovs, Rolans Vasiljevs;
attackers – Ričards Benislavskis, Aleksandrs Biškins, Kristers Brauns, Kārlis Bucenieks, Daņila Larionovs, Rihards Liģis, Gustavs Millers, Mikus Mintautišķis, Rūdolfs Polcs, Gļebs Prohorenkovs, Antons Siņegubovs, Kristaps Skrastiņš, Roberts Vrastor
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