Eduards Tralmaks Photo: Bruins Providence
Latvian hockey players Eduards Tralmaks and Haralds Egle stood out in the American Hockey League (AHL) games on Sunday, helping the teams they represent to win.
Tralmack won the Hartford Wolf Pack 6: 3 (2: 2, 2: 1, 2: 0) at the Providence Bruins. The Latvian hockey player assisted in the team’s fourth goal gain, as well as earned a two-minute rejection, threw in the opponents’ goal once and ended the game with an efficiency of +1.
In another game, Egle Manitoba’s “Moose” beat Chicago’s “Wolves” in the post-shoot series 4: 3 (1: 3, 2: 0, 0: 0, 0: 0, 1: 0). Egle scored the first goal of the team, which was scored in the second minute of the game. He also had a two-minute rejection, finishing the game with a +1 efficiency.
Christian Ruby’s Toronto Marlies lost Rochester’s Americans 3: 5 (0: 1, 1: 3, 2: 1). Ruby threw three times at the opponents’ goal and accumulated a negative efficiency of -1. Marek Mitten also remained on the reserve bench, when he represented Jutika’s “Comets” with a result of 3: 1 (0: 0, 0: 0, 3: 1) defeating Hersie’s “Bears”.
“Comets” with 67 points in 47 games are in the leaderboard of the Eastern Conference, “Bruins” with 44 points in 44 matches and Marlies with 52 points in 43 games are one position lower. At the Western Conference, Moose ranks fifth with 57 points in 47 games. In the regular championship, until the end of April, the teams will play an unequal number of games – 76, 72, or 68 -, dividing the places according to the points / match ratio won. It is planned that starting from next season, all units in the regular tournament will play 72 games.