Latvian national team striker Lauris Dārziņš scored two goals in Tuesday’s game of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) against the Moscow region “Vitjaz” and scored equally successful, helping his team Riga “Dinamo” to win the first success of the season.
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“Dinamo” defeated “Vitjaz” represented by Kaspars Daugaviņš with 4: 3 (2: 1, 1: 2, 0: 0) in his field.
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“First of all, I would like to congratulate the fans on their first victory. I think the game passed us today,” Skudra said at the beginning of the post-match press conference. “We made changes to the ranks as well as our style of play.”
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“In the second period we lost a bit of concentration, but we should be welcomed by opponents who knew how to force us to make mistakes and leave the game plan. I will honestly like what I saw on the field today, because the hockey players helped each other, which eventually allowed others to show their skills. But it can’t be that we don’t work and play with mastery. We have to put in the work first and then we can play with mastery. “
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The ant also did not hide that he liked some of the goals scored by the team, but the main thing for the joy is the fans of the unit. The specialist also praised the dedication of his players, which was especially noticeable at the end of the final period, when the hockey players were not shy to lie under the opponents’ throws.
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In the middle of the second period, Stanislav Galimov’s “Vitjaz” team beat twice in just over a minute, so Ilya Proskurajkov took his place in the goal shortly afterwards.
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“In the second period, we scored two quick goals, which took the team a little ‘breath.’ I saw that there was a bit of embarrassment on the bench, so I changed the goalkeepers to get us time. I didn’t want to take a 30-second break,” Skudra explained. “While we changed the goalkeeper, we still uttered several nuances on the bench.”
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Kaspars Daugaviņš, the leader of the national team, also shared his thoughts about the game with the Latvian team, who stood out in the ranks of “Vitjaz” with a goal and a pass.
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“Today was a difficult game. In the first period, the Riga team played aggressively and did not allow to create moments, although in the majority we took the lead with a rather successful” goal “,” Daugaviņš remembers the course of the game. “The second period was probably very important because we had to stay ahead and not go to the locker room with a score of 3: 3.”
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“In the end, however, we couldn’t pull out the game, and Dinamo didn’t give ‘chance’ to throw anything.”
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The experienced striker also revealed what the head coach told the team in the locker room after the first period.
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“The task of the second period was to play aggressively and not to allow Dinamo to change so easily, because it was a distant bench,” Daugaviņš shares the coach’s instructions. “We had to make quick changes ourselves and try to keep the puck in the depth of the opponent’s defense zone. There were moments and we scored several goals, as well as we realized the majority. There was another hockey.”
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The Rigans suffered losses in the first two games of the season. On Thursday, when the debut of the head coach Pēteris Skudrs, “Dinamo” conceded to the Kazakh team “Nursultana” Baris “2: 3 at home, but on Saturday 1: 3 acknowledged the superiority of the Helsinki” Jokerit “represented by goalkeeper Jānis Kalniņš.
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