Batnia Wins: Finnish Championship Decided by Late Goal

In the middle of the match, Batņa was left unattended at the goal and after a teammate’s pass, he made it 3:2. In this game, he was on the ice for 21 minutes and 54 seconds, had five shots on goal, won ten of 27 shots and accumulated a positive efficiency coefficient of +1.

Batņa scored two goals and provided three assists in nine games in the Finnish top league this season.

In another game, goalkeeper Gustavs Dāvis Grigals was on the reserve while Lappeenranta “SaiPa” beat Oulu “Karpat” 4:3 (0:1, 1:1, 1:0, 1:0) away, while Hemenlinna HPK lost to Kuopio “KalPa” 1:2 (0:1, 1:0, 0:1) at home without Artur Andjan.

Among the Latvian teams, the highest in the tournament table, in sixth place, is “SaiPa” from Lapēnranta, which scored 52 points in 30 games. “Pelicans” and Mikeli “Jukurit” represented by Albert Schmidt are 11th and 12th with 41 and 39 points in 29 and 31 games, respectively, while HPK is in 14th place in the 16-team championship with 37 points in 30 duels.

In the previous season, Kuopio “KalPa” became the champion.