Ronald King Photo: “Lausanne”
Latvian striker Ronalds Ķēniņš scored on Saturday in the Swiss Hockey Premier League (NL) game and celebrated the victory together with the Lausanne team. Lausanne’s hockey players beat NL’s “Ajoie” 6: 2 (3: 1, 2: 0, 1: 1).
The king scored in the ninth minute of the third period, when at the end of the counter-attack he was accurate from the front, reaching 6: 2. He spent 14 minutes and 33 seconds on the ice in this duel, during which he threw five goals, blocked one shot and accumulated a positive efficiency of +1.
The king has scored three goals in 15 matches this season and made four assists.
Meanwhile, the guard Sandis Smons scored with a pass from the match in which she and Denisa Smirnova The Geneva “Servette” at home won 3: 2 (1: 1, 0: 1, 2: 0) against several Latvian-represented Langnava “Tigers”.
Three minutes and 26 seconds were enough for Smon to score, during which he managed to take two shots on goal and get a positive +1. Smirnov scored once in five minutes and 21 seconds, lost in one throw and reached a neutral efficiency.
After the third goal was opened, Robert Maier was replaced in the “Tigers” fortress Ivars Punnenovs. Maiers repelled 27 of the 30 shots in less than 53 minutes, but Punnenov dealt with two opponents’ shows in five minutes and 18 seconds. Oskars Lapinskis did not mark in the statistical columns in the two minutes and 11 seconds spent on the ice.
In another match, the attacker suffered a loss Kaspars Daugavinas Bern, who gave up at Davos at home 3: 6 (1: 2, 0: 1, 2: 3). Daugaviņš played 16 minutes and 21 seconds, scored twice, won 11 of 19 throws and finished the fight with a neutral efficiency.
In the tournament table, all four teams represented by Latvian hockey players are still next to each other. Lausanne is ninth with 20 points in 15 matches, Tigers is tenth with 20 points in 18 games, Bern is 11 with 17 points in 17 battles, and Servette is 15 with 17 points in 17 duels in the penultimate 13-team competition.
Last season, in the final of the National League tournament, the Geneva Servette conceded to the Zug hockey players.
