In Sweden’s top league, Kristers Gudļevskis remained in Bryna’s reserve, while his team with Oscar Cibuļski beat Rogle 3: 1. Brynas are in tenth place in the league, which is currently at the bottom of the play-off zone. Cibulskis played 11:34 minutes and got a positive efficiency plus one.
In another match, Rodrigo Ābols scored a victory goal, helping the Orebro guests to beat Djurgardens 3-0. Apple threw the goal in the seventh minute. They were the 13th goal of the season and 32nd point in 44 games. The Latvian striker played 15:37 minutes, in which he took three shots on goal and got a positive efficiency plus one.
VIDEO: Apple throws victory puck in Stockholm
In the Czech championship, Māris Bičevskis helped “Mlada Boleslav” beat “Plzen” represented by Mārtiņš Dzierkala 3: 2 and reach a draw 1-1 in the eighth final series. Bičevska’s team was 0: 2 in the 13th minute, but then managed to play and pull out the victory in the 56th minute, in which a total of 19 two-minute rejections were awarded. Bičevskis played 15:19 minutes and earned a plus plus one, while Dzierkals played 13 minutes with two shots.
In the Finnish championship, Jānis Švanenbergs made a successful pass as part of “Lukko”, but his team conceded “TPS Turku” 2: 4. For Schwanenberg, this was the fourth loss in a row, and this series of failures forced him to retire to 11th place in the league, just below the “play-off” line.
Oskars Batņa’s team “Jukurit” in turn with the minimum result 1: 0 beat “Pelicans” represented by Kārlis Čukste, while Jānis Kalniņš remained in the reserve of “Tappara”, his club with bulls 2: 1 beat “KalPA”
In Finland’s second league, Miks Tumānov lost 1: 3 to IPK, while Ernest Ošenieks helped Kieko-Vantaa play Hermes 4: 1.
In the Swiss Championship, Miks Indrašis helped Biel-Bienne beat EC ZUG 3: 2 in overtime. Indrašis played 15 minutes and earned four penalty minutes, both for one foul – a dangerous game with a high stick. In another match, Ivan Punnenov was replaced after the first two periods in which he scored five goals for Tigers, repelling 24 of 29 opponents’ shots. The Tigers then lost 3: 7. Oskars Lapinskis was also in the “Tigers” application, but he did not leave the field.
In the match of two Latvian teams “Lausanne” with 2: 3 bulls, the Geneva “Servette” lost. Ronald King played in the Lausanne team 20:29 minutes and scored four goals, while Geneva’s Deniss Smirnov remained negative in the 17 minutes played.
In the quarter-finals of the French league playoffs in the “Rouen” series, “Gap”, represented by Arthur Mickiewicz, took the lead 2-0. Rolands Vīgners scored two goals for the winners – the first and the fourth.
“Kazaganda”, trained by Peter Skudra in Kazakhstan, played “Altay Torpedo” 7-0, reaching the quarter-finals of the series 2-0.