Latvia's hopes of qualifying for the ice hockey tournament at the next Winter Olympic games took a step forward Thursday with a convincing start to the qualification tournament in Riga.
On Tuesday Latvia lost to Denmark 0:3 in its sole exhibition match prior to qualifiers for the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. It marked the return of Haralds Vasiļjevs as head coach after fifteen years, reported Latvian Radio Wednesday.
The Latvian national hockey team had lots of scoring chances Monday but was unable to convert any of them, eventually going down 0:4 to Russia at the 2016 Hockey World Championship in Moscow.
Latvia is in the middle of a yearly hockey mania with the 2016 Ice Hockey World Championships having started in Moscow on Friday.
In an unexpected move, veteran Latvian coach Leonids Beresnevs has become the head coach of the Latvian national men's ice hockey team, Latvian Ice Hockey Federation President Kirovs Lipmans confirmed Friday.
Latvian ice hockey club Riga Dinamo has found sponsors in the gas sector, club chairman Juris Savickis told national information agency LETA Tuesday.
No major wins and barely hanging on to its spot in the elite division, but Latvian national hockey team top player Lauris Dārziņš told Latvian Radio after the World Championship Wednesday that the whole team played like heroes.
The twenty-five players selected by the Latvian national hockey team to fly out Wednesday to the Czech Republic for the World Championship games holds an almost one-third ratio of rookies to experienced players, announced head coach Aleksandrs Beļavskis Monday.
Latvia’s Hockey Federation (LHF) officially confirmed that star forward Zemgus Girgensons would not recover from an ankle injury in time to join the national championship team in the Czech Republic, BNS newswire reported Thursday.
The Buffalo Sabres fired former Latvian national hockey team coach Ted Nolan from the head coach position after he led them to the NHL’s bottom 30th place for a second year in a row.
| Group A | Points |
|---|---|
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19 |
|
17 |
|
16 |
|
10 |
|
7 |
|
6 |
|
6 |
|
3 |
| Group B | Points |
|---|---|
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21 |
|
16 |
|
15 |
|
12 |
|
9 |
|
6 |
|
4 |
|
1 |