Saturday’s program began with a clash between the Dinamos of Riga and Minsk. The teams were in contrasting form: Riga unbeaten here, Minsk struggling for wins anywhere in pre-season. Girts Ankipans chose to rest several of his leaders, giving a break to Carter Ashton and David Ullstrom. But even without their most productive players of the summer, the Latvians proved too strong for Minsk.
The game was settled in the third period when the host potted two unanswered goals. The home power play made a big impact, providing two of the three goals for Ankipans & Co.
Dinamo Riga 3 Dinamo Minsk 1 (1-0, 0-1, 2-0)
Goals: 1-0 Gillies (Marenis 13:06 PP); 1-1 Pavlenko (Stefanovich, Denisov 34:15); Jansons (Sotnieks, Marenis 42:02 PP); 3-1 Pazgals (Marshall 58:48, empty net).
Goalies: Tretiak – Enroth
Neither Lokomotiv nor Avtomobilist had lived up to expectations at the Latvian Railways Cup. The Railwaymen had lost both their games, while Avto managed just one victory. Andrei Martemyanov sent out a strong roster, lacking only the injured forwards Pavel Datsyuk and Anatoly Golyshev. Loko also went with something close to a full-strength line-up and had Alexander Lazushin starting in goal.
The goalie went on to secure a shut-out as Loko sealed a comfortable win courtesy of one goal in each period. Three of the four lines found the net for Craig MacTavish’s team.
Lokomotiv Yaroslavl 3 Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg 0 (1-0, 1-0, 1-0)
Goals: Averin (Alexeyev, Kudryavtsev 12:27); 2-0 Rattie (Sannikov, Osipov 30:53 PP); 3-0 Ivanov (Kovalenko, Cherepanov 54:38)
Goalies: Lazushin – Kovar
All rights to materials posted on the website www.khl.ru (hereinafter referred to as the Website) and which are the objects of exclusive rights, including the registered trademarks and symbolics of the “КХЛ”/“KHL”, “МХЛ” / “JHL”, “ЖХЛ” / “WHL” (hereinafter referred to as the Trademarks), as well as on photo and video images, articles, etc., which are owned by CHL LLC, are protected in compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The placement and / or use of Trademarks and other intellectual property of CHL LLC without the direct consent of CHL LLC are considered and prosecuted as intellectual property rights violations of CHL LLC in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation. It is forbidden to automatically extract information from the Website by any services without the official permission of CHL LLC. Quoting from the Website and satellite projects of the official messages of the Kontinental Hockey League is allowed only with a direct link to the site www.khl.ru.
КХЛ 2008—2021
KHL 2008—2021
All rights to materials posted on the website www.khl.ru (hereinafter referred to as the Website) and which are the objects of exclusive rights, including the registered trademarks and symbolics of the “КХЛ”/“KHL”, “МХЛ” / “JHL”, “ЖХЛ” / “WHL” (hereinafter referred to as the Trademarks), as well as on photo and video images, articles, etc., which are owned by CHL LLC, are protected in compliance with the legislation of the Russian Federation. The placement and / or use of Trademarks and other intellectual property of CHL LLC without the direct consent of CHL LLC are considered and prosecuted as intellectual property rights violations of CHL LLC in accordance with the laws of the Russian Federation. It is forbidden to automatically extract information from the Website by any services without the official permission of CHL LLC. Quoting from the Website and satellite projects of the official messages of the Kontinental Hockey League is allowed only with a direct link to the site www.khl.ru.