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Sport-Express journalist and Russian hockey observer Alexei Shevchenko after yesterday’s game in which the Continental Hockey League (KHL) club Riga “Dinamo” with a result of 1: 3 suffered a loss in the second match of this season against Helsinki “Jokerit”, expressed an opinion about the performance of the Rigans and marked the strength of the Finnish team in the new season.
Some believe that the main problem with Jokerit is instability. In previous years, until the middle of the regular season, the team “blew”, but in the past it was associated with a short reserve bench. There are a lot of players now, everyone is healthy and “Jokerit” seems to be a hidden favorite of the Western Conference, “says the reviewer. “Peter Skudra was not very lucky to have to meet the Helsinki team right now.”
“The Finns are in perfect shape, their opponent [“Dinamo”] there was no chance, moreover, Mika Indraš’s change overthrew the game. The club, where Anti Pilström plays in the fourth shift and the strong Marko Antila cannot be weak, ”the journalist points out.
“Peter Skudra is still very nervous about what his team is doing on the ice, but it is not clear why he expected another performance in the team. I understand that he wants everything at once, but with such preparation for the season, it does not happen, ”Shevchenko believes. “If it were possible to recruit cheap hockey players within a month and qualify at least for playoffs, then everyone would do so. It is not for nothing that the concepts of “team backbone” and “team interplay” exist. So the coach has to wait until something starts to work out. But the people of Riga didn’t look like a depressed club, that’s good. “
It has already been reported that in the first game of the season “Dinamo”, making his debut as the head coach Pēteris Skudrs, on Thursday he gave up the Kazakh team “Nursultan” Barys “2: 3 at home. Meanwhile, the Helsinki team was scheduled to play with Minsk’s “Dynamo” on the same day, but for safety reasons the club did not fly to the match venue, emphasizing that now is not the time to play hockey in Belarus. On the same day, KHL decided to award Jokerit a technical loss.
After the game with “Jokerit”, the Riga club will have two more home games, in which it will be necessary to meet “Vityaz” of the Moscow region (September 8) and “Neftekhimik” of Nizhny Novgorod (September 11) represented by Kaspars Daugaviņš.
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