Latvian hockey players win Slovenia / Day after a successful second period
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Kristiāns Rubīns, Henrī Ravinskis, Mārtiņš Dzierkals and Dan Ločmelis scored the goal for the Latvian national team.
Kristers Gudlevsky has returned to the Latvian national team’s goal compared to the previous match. The first match in these championships was Philip Buncis, while Oskars Batņa is not playing.
Already in the first half of the game, the Latvians got to the opponent’s goal, but they did not make dangerous shots. In the middle of the first period, the teams began to attack more sharply, and in one of the counterattacks, Dan Ločmelis hit the goal post with a sharp angle.
A little later, Ločmelis went on the rejected bench for blocking, and the opponents hit the score with a puck on the goal. Eduards Tralmaks also left the Latvian team in the minority, with Latvians playing for about 20 seconds in three.
Like the first, the second period Latvians started actively, but scored first. In the third minute of the period, Gudlevsky hit the puck in front of him, where Marcel Mahkovec was the first.
The Latvians put pressure on the opponents’ goal and, in the ninth minute of the period, Rubin scored 1: 1 with a repeat shot. After less than three and a half minutes, Tralmax found Ravinski, who threw a puck in an empty goal, at the far post. After another 21 seconds, the score was 3: 1 for the Latvians, as Tom Anderson was sent by Dzierkals in the puck net.
True, the Slovenians quickly approached the result, as in the same period of the 13th minute, the puck went to Gudlevsky’s guarded goal after Blaza Gregorich’s shot. It didn’t take a full minute when the score was 4: 2, after Robert Mamchica’s ingenious pass, Ločmelis sends the puck.
The Latvian team started the tournament with a 4: 1 victory over France, but in the second game with a 1: 7 defeat to Canada. Slovenia lost 0: 4 to Canada and 1: 3 for Slovakia.
16 teams are divided into two groups, eight teams each, with a round tournament. The top four teams in each group will continue their battle for medals in the quarterfinals, but the weakest teams in both groups will leave the strongest division, and will be replaced by Britain and Italy next year.
