Uvis Jānis Balinskis Photo: Litvinov “Verva”
On Sunday, Latvian defender Uvis Jānis Balinskis celebrated with a successful pass in the game of the Czech Hockey Extraliga, helping Litvīnova’s “Verva” team to win. “Verva” beat the team of Plzeņa “Škoda” represented by striker Mārtiņš Dzierkala with the result 4: 3 (1: 0, 3: 0, 0: 3).
Balinskis reached the point in the fifth minute of the second period, when he started the attack, at the end of which Patrick Zdrāhals reached 2: 0. Balinskis spent 25 minutes and 15 seconds on the ice in this duel, during which he threw once into the goal, was at two penalty minutes and had a neutral efficiency. Dzierkals made three shots on goal in 16 minutes and 53 seconds, scored four penalty minutes and ended the fight with a negative efficiency of -1.
The Latvians also met on the pitch in a game in which the defender of Česke Budejovice’s “Motor”, represented by Christopher Bindulis, defeated “Mlada Boleslav” with the striker Māris Bičevskis 4: 1 (1: 0, 1: 1, 2: 0). Meanwhile, Vītkovice’s “Ridera” with defender Guntis Galviņš and striker Roberts Bucharest lost 1: 2 (1: 1, 0: 1, 0: 0) to Tršineca’s “Ocelārži” team. Zlin’s “PSG Berani”, represented by defender Roberts Mamčics, also failed, acknowledging the superiority of Kladno “Rytīrži” at home with 1: 5 (0: 0, 1: 2, 0: 3).
In the table of the fourth tournament with 39 points in 21 games is “Mlada Boleslav”, but “Škoda” with 36 points in 22 games is in the fifth place. “Motor” has 34 points in 21 matches and sixth place, “Verva” is in the tenth place with 28 points in 21 games, but “Verva” is in 13th place with 25 points in 19 games. “PSG Berani” with eight points in 22 games takes the last place in the league, where 15 teams play this season.
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