This match is played by both teams in incomplete lineups.
Upon arrival in the capital of Latvia, all members of the Minsk Club had to be tested for coronavirus infection.
“For several players, as well as representatives of the administrative and coaching staff, the tests showed a positive result of Covid-19, which prevents them from participating in the match,” the Minsk club’s website reported.
It has already been reported that the game “Arena Riga” is the first Riga “Dinamo” game in the league since September 16, due to the limitations of Covid-19, when the superiority of Khabarovsk “Amur” was recognized with the guests 1: 2. Six days later, a game was planned on his field, but in the ranks of Riga “Dinamo” and opponents Nizhny Novgorod’s “Torpedo”, an infection with Covid-19 was detected. Therefore, this match was postponed, but in the next two dues – against the Moscow teams “Dinamo” and CSKA – the Latvian team received technical losses.
Initially, the Riga team was quarantined until October 5, but the government decided to reduce the duration of home quarantine for Covid-19 patients from 14 to ten days if the Covid-19 test performed no earlier than the tenth day after contact with the source of infection is negative, thus giving “Dynamo” opportunity to return to the square faster.
Nine hockey players and two staff members were previously reported to be infected with Covid-19 Dinamo. Currently, the list of injured players includes five defenders and six attackers, most of whom will be replaced by the players of the Russian Youth Hockey League (MHL) team “Riga”.
Before Thursday’s game with three points in seven games, the Latvian team is the last among the 11 teams of the Western Conference, while the Belarusian team with 16 points in ten duels is in the third position.
The two teams KHL have played each other 44 times, dividing the victories in half. Last season, three of the four games were won by Rigans.
Last season, “Dinamo” took the penultimate place in the Western Conference and in the entire league, not qualifying for the Gagarin Cup for the sixth year in a row.
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