PHOTOfact: President's hockey team off to good start in new RHL season
11:03, 25 November
The hockey team of the President of Belarus was off to a triumphant start in the new, 18th season of the Republican Hockey League (RHL), BelTA has learned.
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On the ice of the capital's Olympic Arena, the president’s squad beat the Grodno Oblast team 10-3 (4-1, 3-0, 3-2). The first period kicked off with a number of counterattacks and Andrei Kostitsyn opened the scoring five minutes into the game. Very soon Sergei Yanchenko scored back. The hosts added pressure and Andrei Kostitsyn, Denis Kurdeko and Nikolai Lukashenko made it 4-1 before the first hooter. In the middle stanza Nikolai Lukashenko scored his second of the night. Maksim Parfeyevets added one more, and Yaroslav Chupris, assisted by Aleksandr Lukashenko and Andrei Bashko, made the scoring 7-1 just before the second break. In the final period Nikolai Lukashenko scored two more while Maksim Parfeyevets lit the lamp for the second time. The visitors narrowed the gap through the efforts of Sergei Oliyev and Oleg Filippov.
