Photo: HK “Riga”
“Rīga” hockey players lost their game in the Russian Youth Hockey League (MHL) on Saturday. With the result 1: 5 (1: 2, 0: 2, 0: 1), Rigans gave in to Sakhalin‘s “Akuli.
The home team took the lead after 52 seconds, but after another ten minutes, Ģirts Silkalns reached the draw, who scored the majority of the passes by Ričards Beņislavskis and Alekša Burkita. In the 15th minute of the game, Sakhalin’s team, gaining the majority in the majority, took the lead again, and the Rigans were no longer able to score in this match.
“Rīga” in the Western group with 33 points in 58 games takes the 16th place in the competition of 17 teams, but “Akuli” with 35 points is two positions higher. Last season, Riga took 13th place in the main event in the Western Conference and did not qualify for the elimination tournament.
After one season, the head coach Raimonds Vilkoits has returned to the coaching corps in the Riga “Dinamo” team.
The calendar of MHL season 13 envisages that each team will play 64 games in the main tournament (32 at home, 32 away). The “Riga” team plays in the Western group, which has 17 teams and only the top eight enter the playoffs.
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