SoundAndFury
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This team has also outshot Sibir 34-15 today.
This team has also outshot Sibir 34-15 today.
In the early years I was rather excited to see young players getting ice time with Dinamo. It sort of told me that this will help them to develop professional skills and build a better hockey future.
Recent track record, though, has shown that Dinamo is the place where professional careers go to die, even for 20-something-year-olds. I am way more happy about any young prospect landing a place outside Dinamo, even if it's a second tier pro European league.
I expected more, to be honest. But this will have to do.Well this team isn't anything special but not a hot garbage it was last year. It's evident already. 3 points from Avangard-Sibir-Barys trip is more or less what one would expect.
Say what you want but evidence is pretty straightforward- Dinamo ruins our players.
So this team keeps being a dumpster fire. Nothing new i guess.
Something needs to drastically change? Really? What? Win a lottery? Because unless Riga gets real KHL players it isn't competing with real KHL teams, it's as simple as that. It is here to fight other basement dwellers and it remains to be seen how it goes.
Well what about the rumour/fact, I don't read Russian so not sure which it was, that we make profit because we don't invest all of the sponsorship money? If that's true then maybe we need to invest a little bit more on 1. A goalie who can play goalie. and 2. somebody who can score regularly.
For one, I doubt that rumour. At least the fact that money being kept are worth mentioning. It's entirely possible owners are keeping some money just for the trouble of organizing all this Dinamo thing in Latvia but it surely isn't millions needed to make something worthwhile of this team.
Secondly, those aren't even the real issues. Even Kalnins evidently can play goal when the defense in front of him isn't terrible outmatched. Lets be real here, entire defense is garbage. Stollery is huge disappointment, Galvins got injured, Alisauskas and Wrenn are given just too big of the roles for them to handle, other guys aren't even worth mentioning. Also this team has plenty of reliable scorers but they are all wings so they can only score off the rush hence having huge troubles scoring against slow paced teams even if they aren't very good, even on PP (Sibir, Spartak even Loko, the way they played). Obviously a center with real playmaking skills would help with that.
This team is like 3 real impact players, superstars if I may, away from being ready to fight any potent KHL roster.
I said game against Spartak was bad but again, when you think about it, Spartak has players Dinamo can only dream off.
I hope this cancer of a team gets thrown out of the league so it can stop wasting away the few good latvians on the roster.