The head coach of the Latvian hockey team will test players from various European leagues in Norway

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Ilmārs Stūriška, “Latvijas Avīze”, JSC “Latvijas Mediji”

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The head coach of the Latvian ice hockey team, Harijs Vītoliņš, will test players from various European leagues at the test tournament in Norway.

Vītoliņš has called up three goalkeepers, eight defenders and 12 forwards to the national team. The youngest is the goalkeeping line, where the most experienced is 21-year-old Eriks Vitols from “Zemgales/LLU”, this season in the “Mestis” league in Finland, he averaged 2.43 goals and saved 90.9 percent of shots. My colleague from Jelgava, Marius Bajaruns-Galejs, was also invited, as well as Rūdolfs Lazdiņš from Riga “Dinamo”.

Mārtiņš Dzierkal, Kristofer Bindul (both Czech “Česke Budejovice”), Renārs Krastenberg (Swedish “Allsvenskan”) and Denis Smirnov (Switzerland) have World Championship experience. Nauris Šejės was at the Beijing Olympic Games. In total, hockey players from seven national leagues have been called up. Daniels Goršanovs, Harijs Brants and Artūrs Homjakovs from the Latvian Championship.

None of those playing abroad are doing brilliantly. Geneva “Servette” represented by Smirnov is the leader of the Swiss championship, the Latvian striker has 2+3 in 18 games. Dzierkal has 11 points in 17 games in the Czech Republic, but the team is in 12th place out of 14 in the table. Patrik Zabusov, who has settled in well in Slovakia’s Mihalovce “Dukla”, has seven points in six matches, and the team is fifth.

The eighth place in the competition of 12 teams is occupied by “Nitra”, where the head coach is Normunds Sējējs, forward Filips Buncis has earned three points in 14 games. Georg Golovkov is playing his second season in the Swedish “Allsvenskan” league unit “Almtuna”, currently he has 10 points in 13 games. By the way, the 27-year-old Golovkov played his only match for the national team a long time ago – in 2016/2017. in the season of the year. In this league, Krastenbergs, one of the stable values ​​of the national team in recent years, has yet to score a goal – five assists.

The Latvian national team will meet Norway in Trondheim on November 10, and Denmark a day later.

Rihards Bukarts, striker of the Latvian national team, has joined the club, who has joined Klagenfurt “EC-KAC” in Austria, which started the season unsuccessfully – it is only in ninth place in the competition of 13 teams.

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