The match “Arena Riga” will start at 7.30 pm, broadcasting it live on the channel “TV3 Sport 2”.
There will be a match at home with Ekaterinburg’s “Avtomobilist” on Saturday, but on November 16, the series will end with a duel against Beijing’s “Coon Red Star”.
The previous home game “Dinamo” was played on Saturday, when Neftehimik from Nizhnekamsk gave up 1: 3.
Since then, the composition of the team has changed, as on Wednesday the club announced that it had been joined by two strikers who have played the Beijing Red Star this season – Gleb Zirjanov and Latvian hockey player Gunars Skvortsov, who has already spent seven seasons with Dinamo.
Thanks are also given on Wednesday to the 27-year-old Canadian defender Andrew O’Brien, with whom the cooperation was terminated by mutual agreement.
The defender in the Riga team went to the field in seven games this season, in which he did not stand out with results. He played an average of 12 minutes and 33 seconds in the match, earning a negative utility of -3.
Rigans have suffered ten losses in a row, during this time gaining only two points for losses in post-match throws. At this time, which was also affected by the Covid-19 illness in the team, the goal ratio for the team is 13:42. In only one of these games has the team scored three goals, in three more – two.
The “Sochi” unit has also lost in the last three battles, but has gained two points. Kaspars Daugaviņš, represented by Kasjap Daugaviņš, represented by the Moscow region “Vitjaz”, and Jānis Kalniņš, represented by Helsinki “Jokerit”, were lost in their overtime with 3: 4 and 4: 5, as well as with the 2: 3 “away” Balashik – Bob Hartley ‘s Omsk “Avangard”.
Both teams have met 15 times, with the Riga team winning only two matches (both in overtime). Lost nine times in regular time, once in extra time and three times in post-match throws.
This season, the two teams have already met once, conceding 2: 4 in the second game of the ten-loss series.
Last season, the teams met four times, all winning by one goal. In three games, Sochi hockey players were superior – 3: 2, 2: 1 and 2: 1 (overtime) – once in overtime with 3: 2 the joy of “Dinamo” hockey players.
Riga “Dinamo” with seven points in 18 games takes the last place in the KHL championship in the competition of 23 teams, while “Sochi” with 16 points in 23 matches in the Western Zone has one place above the Rigans, taking the third place in the league from the end.
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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