Latvian hockey goalkeeper Jānis Kalniņš and the Swedish team Vēkše “Lakers” he represented started the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) Champions League tournament on Friday with a 2: 1 victory over Prague “Sparta”.
Kalnins repulsed 26 of 27 opponents’ shots.
In the second game of the group, Turku TPS from Finland lost to Bremerhaven “Fischtown Pinguins” from Germany.
Bratislava’s “Slovan” with Krister Gudlevsky at the gate gave “Leksands IF” from Sweden 3: 5.
Gudlevsky stood at the goal for 59 minutes and 16 seconds, repelling 39 of the 43 shots or 90.7% of the shots.
In the second game of the group, “Ocelārži” from Tršinec (Czech Republic) recognized the superiority of “Friborg-Gotteron” from Switzerland with the guests 2: 6.
The Czech team “Mlada Boleslav” represented by Māris Bičevskis in Group B lost 1: 4 (0: 3, 0: 1, 1: 0) to Gothenburg’s “Frolunda Indians” (Sweden) on Thursday.
Bičevskis threw the opponents’ goal once in 12 minutes and 34 seconds and scored a +/- score of -1. He also won three of the 12 throws.
The group also includes Helsinki IFK (Finland) and Zurich Lions (Switzerland), whose Finnish team was 3-0 superior.-
While Ronald King is fighting for a meeting at the Beijing Olympics in Riga in a qualifying tournament, his Lausanne defeated Rauma’s Lukko from Finland 3: 2 (0: 0, 0: 1, 2: 1, 1: 0).
In this group, the German team “Adler” from Mannheim defeated Cardiff “Devils” from Great Britain with 5: 0.
There are 32 teams in the Champions League, divided into eight subgroups of four units each. The main tournament will end on October 13, when each team will have played six games in the group. After that, the elimination tournament will start, the culmination of which will be on March 1, 2022, when the final is planned.
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