The game “Arena Riga” will start at 5 pm, broadcasting it live on the channel “TV3 Sport 2”.
Two days later, the home game series will end against Beijing’s “Lunar Red Star”.
On Thursday, KHL management decided that Dinamo should be awarded a technical loss in the transferred games against Vitjaz of the Moscow region and Metallurg of Magnitogorsk, but a few hours later the dynamians gave up Sochi 1: 3 and extended the loss to 13 games.
With the same result, the Riga club also lost to Nizhny Novgorod “Neftehimik” a week ago, but at the beginning of November the last match was played, in which more than one goal was scored. At that time, the guests of Rigans gave in to the devastating 2: 7 Avtomobilist.
On Wednesday, the “Dinamo” team was joined by the strikers who played Beijing “Kuunluņ Red Star” this season – Gļebs Zirjanovs and Latvian hockey player Gunārs Skvorcovs, who has already spent “Dinamo” seven seasons before. In turn, the head coach Pēteris Skudra revealed that the club also has Rihards Bukarts at its disposal.
The first two are in good physical shape and will be visible on the field soon, but Bucharest still has a little work to do to return to the ranks of “Dinamo”.
Shortly after the attackers joined, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement with the 27-year-old Canadian defender Andrew O’Brien, but even before that the long-term attackers Gints Meija and Miķelis Rēdlihs left the club.
Meanwhile, “Avtomobilist” has recently enjoyed the taste of victory quite often, because in the last duel 2: 1 defeated Yaroslavl “Lokomotiv”, previously destroyed the Riga unit, but at the end of October managed to win the already mentioned “Lokomotiv”. In the last ten games, the team has lost only three times.
In the only meeting of this season, the Ekaterinburg team won 7: 2, but last year the teams met twice, splitting the victories in half – “Avtomobilist” won 5: 4, but in the answer match 2: 1 Rigans were superior.
In total, the teams met 23 times in the KHL championship, of which “Dinamo” celebrated the victory in 13 cases.
Riga “Dinamo” with seven points in 19 games takes the last place in the KHL championship in the competition of 23 teams, while “Sochi” with 18 points in 24 matches in the Western zone is one place above the Rigans, taking the fourth 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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