Peter the Anteater Photo: Raimonds Volonts
Latvian specialist hockey-sportacentrs-com/” title=”Striker Larionov leaves the team led by Ant and joins the vice-champion of Kazakhstan – Hockey – Sportacentrs.com”>Pēteris Skudra will become the head coach of the Kazakh club Karaganda “Saryarka” on Monday, according to “Championat”.
Previously, Sport-Express also wrote about Skudra’s next job. Meanwhile, the information available to Championat indicates that on January 17, the specialist will arrive in Kazakhstan and start working with the team, which is currently in second place in the championship.
It is significant that in the first half of the season “Saryarka” was led by another Latvian coach Leonīds Tambijevs. During the season, he received an offer from the Admiral of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) club and, although the Karaganda club tried to block Tambiev’s departure, the most successful hockey player in the history of the Latvian national team agreed to work at a higher level.
The ant worked in Riga’s “Dinamo” last season, but this stage can hardly be called a success, as only nine victories were won in 60 games. Previously, the coach also led Chelyabinsk’s Traktor and Nizhny Novgorod’s Torpedo.
Three Latvian hockey players are playing in the Kazakhstan club – defender Edgars Siksna, as well as strikers Danila Larionov and Deniss Fyodorov.
