“Zemgale”/LBTU of Jelgava and “Kurbads” in Tallinn celebrated their victory in “Optibet” Hockey League (OHL) matches on Wednesday.
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“Zemgale”/LBTU defeated Vilnius “7BET-Hockey Punks” at home with 8:3 (1:1, 5:1, 2:1).
Edgars Petrovs put the guests in the lead in the eighth minute, but the home team scored the next six goals in the game.
In his first game in the Jelgava team, Mārtiņš Karsums collected five (2+3) performance points, defender Mārtiņš Porejs had four (1+3), Rinald Vutkevičs – three (2+1) and Gustavs Miller – two (1+1). performance points.
In goal, Marius Bajarun-Galej saved six of nine shots.
For the guests, Petrov collected three points (1+2), and defender Magnus Jákobsons (0+2) and Ilya Chetvertaks (1+1) – two points each.
Vutkevich and Chetvertak were recognized as the best in their teams.
In the second game, “Kurbads” beat Tallinn “Panter” 7:3 (3:0, 2:1, 2:2).
In the game, the hockey players of both teams clarified their relationship several times, in the second period, Renārs Tsiprus and Artjom Abeljanov, as well as Emil Gunter and Andres Lind, received two minutes each for rudeness, but in the 56th minute, a fight broke out on the sideline after a push by the home player Patrik Kokma, which led to the end of the game Matīss Bīriņš and Edgars Ozoliņš were rejected from the “Kurbads” team, and Abeljanovs from the home team.
In total, the team earned 103 penalty minutes in the game, 65 of which were earned by Latvian club players.
Artūrs Ozoliņš (2+1) and Aleksandrs Novikovs (0+3) scored three points each for “Kurbads”, while Roberts Yekimovs scored two goals.
Rasmus Keeks, Kevin Parras (both – 1+1) and defender Shuma Kinebuchi (0+2) scored two points for the home team.
Fyodor Aganezov managed 25 shots in the winning goal, while Willem Henriks Koitma saved 33 shots for the losers.
Yekimov and Parras were recognized as the best players of the match.
“Zemgale”/LBTU takes the first place in the tournament with 12 points in seven games, while “Kurbads” has ten points in six matches, “Prizma” has collected eight points in seven matches, and “Mogo”/LSPA has six points in four matches, occupying the first four places of the tournament. in the table. Hockey school “Rīga” is seventh in the nine-team competition with two points in three games.
The main OHL four-round tournament will end on February 28, but the OHL and Baltic champions will be determined in the playoff tournament.
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Six teams will advance to the OHL playoffs. The quarter-finals will be played until three wins, while the semi-finals and the battle for the OHL’s main trophy will be played until four wins.
In the 2023/2024 season, “Prizma”, “Rīga”, “Zemgale”/LBTU, “Mogo”/LSPA and “Kurbads” from Latvia, “Kaunas City”, Elektrēnu “Airwell-Energija”, Vilnius” will participate in the Baltic Championship 7BET-Hockey Punks” from Lithuania and Estonian club Tallinn “Panter”.
Also this season, the status of legionnaires or foreign hockey players is not applied to the citizens of Ukraine in the OHL championship, but the players of Russia and Belarus are prohibited from competing in the OHL.
Last year, “Zemgale”/LBTU became the champion, which defeated “Mogo”/LSPA 4-1 in the final to reach four victories.
2023-10-04 19:37:28
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