Germany
• The season in the DEL League has come to an end for goalkeeper coach Edgars Lūsiņš’s Bremerháven “Pinguins”, who lost 1:2 to Munich’s “Red Bull” in the sixth match of the tournament’s quarter-final series.
• Lūsiņa’s team lost the series with 2-4. “Penguins” finished the regular season in the eighth position. The Bremerhaven club has been eliminated in the DEL quarterfinals for the third season in a row.
Czech Republic
• “Ocelari” of Tršinec, represented by Kārļis Čukste, has achieved an equalization (2-2) in the quarter-final series of the Czech Extra League, defeating “Sparta” Prague (3:0). The Latvian defender did not play.
• Uvja Balinska’s “Bili Tyri” from Liberec, which recognized the superiority of “Mountfield” from Hrādeckralove with 4:6 in the final game of the series (1-4), has ended the season at this stage of the tournament. Balinskis did not score in the 17:44 minutes spent on the ice and had a +1 efficiency factor.
• In his third season in the Czech Republic, the 26-year-old hockey player became the most productive defenseman of the Extra League, accumulating 35 (11+24) points in 50 games in the regular tournament. In nine playoff games, Balinski has 7 (1+6) points.
Slovakia
• “Dukla Ingema” of Vitalija Pavlova, Patrika Zabusov and Kristaps Bazevica Mihalovce has overcome the barrier of the 1/4 finals of the Slovak Extra League, defeating the country’s most famous club Bratislava “Slovan” (3:0). Bazevich did not play, but Pavlov (13:52 minutes) and Zabusov (15:10) remained without points.
• In the series “Dukla Ingema” triumphed with 4-2 and in the semi-finals will compete with the regular season winner “Košice”.
Austria
• Rihards Bukarts earned two assists in the second match of the Austrian-Italian open ICEHL championship semi-final series, contributing to Klagenfurt KAC’s victory over Salzburg Red Bull (6:2).
• The forward assisted on the second and third goals. The result in the series has become 1-1.
In France
• In the “Ligue Magnus” semi-final series, Ginta Meija’s “Angers” achieved a draw (2-2) in a duel between two Latvian teams, defeating Roland Vigner’s “Rouen” 6:3.
• May scored his team’s first goal, while Wigner assisted on Rouen’s second goal.
Sweden
• “Sodertalje” represented by Georga Golovkov reached the quarter-finals of the “Allsvenskan” league, losing 3:4 to the “Mora” team. Golovkov has two shots on goal in 14:33 minutes and an efficiency ratio of -2.
• In the series, the result has now become 3-2 in favor of “Mora”.
Switzerland
• Geneva “Servette”, the winner of the regular season, has reached the semi-finals of the Swiss National League, which beat “Lugano” (4-2) in a six-game series.
• In the decisive sixth match in the victory of “Servette” (5:2), Deniss Smirnovs accumulated a +1 efficiency coefficient and blocked one shot in 10:32 minutes.
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https://liguemagnus.com/
https://www.hockeyallsvenskan.se/ga…
https://www.nationalleague.ch/game/…
