The series of field games will be continued by the Riga “Dynamo” unit, which will meet with the local “Avtomobilist” at 14:00 in Yekaterinburg. The slipping Riga team is facing a severe test against the league’s most productive hockey player Alexei Makeyev and the third place owners of the Eastern Conference.
The Riga “Dinamo” team has accumulated the biggest series of losses this season – they have not managed to win seven games in a row, winning the only victory in the first game of the month in October (on October 1 against Minsk “Dinamo”). In the previous match, the Rigans with 1: 5 acknowledged the superiority of Chelyabinsk’s “Traktor”. “Dinamo” was led by a beautiful solo move by the striker David Levins, who has just joined the team, but five unanswered goals were lost, experiencing an unconditional loss. In addition, Dinamo scored two goals in a six-second interval, playing in a numerical majority.
In the absence of Ilya Proskurjakov and Stanislav Galimov, the 19-year-old HK “Riga” goalkeeper Ēriks Vītols started the second game in a row at the “Dinamo” goal. The new goalkeeper from Rīga did very well up to the already mentioned majority, losing a curious second goal, after which Aleksandrs Lazušins was sent to the ice instead of Vītols. True, he was not a savior either. “I think that there will be curious wheels in the career of any goalkeeper,” Dmitry Parhomenko, acting head coach of “Dinamo”, admitted at the post-match press conference.
Although the performance is not convincing and the last place in the tournament table is natural, it is equally clear that success has been turning its back on Rigans for a long time. The team has already undergone two quarantines, the injured still have 15 hockey players. The lack of a quality training process and time to play has been repeatedly highlighted by another team shortage – head coach Pēteris Skudra, who was also joined by defender Andrew O`Brien.
“The situation is not the easiest of them. We have not all been together as a team. I don’t remember when we all met in one training session. Players change, some get sick, new faces come. “We have to find a way to get the puck in the gate,” the Canadian defender is quoted as saying on the club ‘s website.
KHL’s top scorer represents the Ekaterinburg team. 28-year-old striker Alexei Makeyev has scored 23 (12 + 11) points in 21 games, overtaking his closest follower Theme Hartikainen from “Salavat Yulaev” by one point. Makeyev’s 12 goals are divided by the best score in the league. The forward represented Podolsk Vityaz for the previous seven seasons, scoring 37 (13 + 24) points in 60 games last season. Veteran Pavel Dacju has also started the season very successfully, who has scored 20 (5 + 15) points in 18 matches, who has missed the previous three games.
For the fifth season in a row, the Czech Jakubs Kovāržs is taking care of the safety of the Avtomobilist goal, who has dealt with 92.6% throws in 19 games and has scored 2.18 goals in the game on average. The most productive defender of the team is Chej Genovejs – a Canadian who in 2014/15. Riga “Dinamo” successfully played in the season, this season has accumulated 12 (3 + 9) points in 20 games.
In November, a total of 12 games are planned for Riga “Dinamo”. After the match in Ekaterinburg, the Rigans will go to Nursultan, where they will end the away series, but then a series of four home games will follow.
sportacentrs.com
Published 1 nov 2020
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