Jacob Johansson är kvar i Timrå sedan tidigare. Nu står det klart vem som kommer kriga med Johansson om förstaspaden i Tik.

Det rör sig om Sami Rajaniemi, avslöjar SportExpressen.

Den 28-årige burväktaren har flera säsonger i den finska högstaligan bakom sig.

Det gick så pass bra i fjol att han fick chansen i det finska landslaget.

Nu är det klart att Adam Ohre inte blir kvar i Timrå, uppger Sundsvalls Tidning.

Den 26-årige målvakten erbjuds inte någon kontraktsförlängning av Medelpadsklubben inför SHL-återkomsten.

- Eftersom jag inte hade kontrakt hade jag inte förväntat mig så mycket innan vi hade snacket, men det är klart att det är ett tråkigt besked. Men det är mest skönt att få ett, istället för att det ska vara så ovisst som det varit de sista veckorna, säger Adam Ohre till Sundsvalls Tidning.

Kovlandsprodukten gjorde bara elva matcher den gångna säsongen, men när han väl fick chansen gick det riktigt bra.

Det är oklart var Ohre hamnar den kommande säsongen.

Eric Gelinas har varit en toppback i SHL de senaste säsongerna och haft stor del i att Rögle lyckats ta nästa steg som klubb.

Nu står det klart att kanadensaren lämnar den svenska högstaligan.

Den rutinerade tvåvägsbacken är klar för Carolina Hurricanes, meddelar klubben på hemsidan.

Kontraktet sträcker sig över en säsong.

Gelinas svarade för hela 41 poäng och mäktiga +26 på 60 SHL- och SM-slutspelsmatcher den gångna säsongen.

Bad weather cancelled the TAURON SEC in Bydgoszcz on Saturday and also their home match in League 1.

Lublin were also forced to postpone their Ekstraliga match until Monday.

#LODOST

Łódź led the match from the very first heat when Ostrow came to visit this afternoon. But the margin was always tight, so that when they won their first 5:1 in Heat 7 through Luke Becker (11) and Marcin Nowak (8+1) the score was only 22:20 in the Eagles’ favour.

And when Łódź won their second 5:1 in Heat 10, it looked like Norbert Kosciuch and Australian, Brady Kurtz (6+1), were taking the home side towards victory as the team were six points ahead at 33:27.

Amazingly, the last five heats of the match would produce four 5:1s as Ostrow’s top scorers, Polish riders Tomasz Gapinski (12+2) and Grzegorz Walasek (13+2) put pressure on the home riders.
But it was not all one way traffic as the sides exchanged heat advantages.
In Heat 14 it was Becker who again won the heat for Łódź. But behind him, the Scandinavian duo of Patrick Hansen (11+1) and Oliver Berntzon (5+1) took second and third leaving everything hanging on the final heat with the scores at 43:41.

And in an all Polish final heat it was Ostrovia’s veteran pairing of Gapinski and Walasek who would take another 1:5 and for the first time in the match give the visitors the lead.

So Arged Malesa ran out winners 44:46 on the night even though Danish rider, Nicolai Klindt scored just 1 pts.

#GRUZIE

It was a bottom of the table clash in Grudziadz who needed a convincing win to overturn 51:39 win from the Round 2 match in Zielona Góra.

In a match that lurched slowly forward because of many re-starts, the home team seemed in control and were in the lead 25:17 after Heat 7.

But with two exclusions of Grudziadz riders Przemyslaw Pawlicki (9+1)and Pawel Miesiac (5+1) in Heats 9 and 10, suddenly the match was a 30:30 draw and the momentum seemed to swing towards visiting Falubaz.

The fight was on, but neither team could break the deadlock and after five 3:3 heats in a row, the match finished with a draw and the bonus point went to Zielona Góra.

Dropping the bonus point could be the difference between the two teams at the end of the season and now Grudziadz are bottom with just one win under their belt after 9 Rounds.

Top scorers were:

Zagar ZIE 14+2
Pedersen GRU 14
Dudek ZIE 13+1

Others:

Bjerre GRU 8

Fricke ZIE 4+1

Photo - Pedersen , Vaculik, Zagar from SGP 2018.

#LANRZE

In today’s first Germany v Poland match in eWinner 2, Landshut hosted Rzeszow in the day’s first meet in the Polish leagues.

And it was the hosts who lead from Heat 1, when Germans, Kai Huckenbeck (11) and Martin Smolinski (9, pictured) started the match of with a 4:2 win.

The Polish team did draw level in Heat 7 when their eventual top scorer, Hubert Legowik (14) led a 1:5 victory. But after that Rzeszow never got close to the victory as the Germans, slowly but surely, closed in on the win. By the end they took the match 49:39.

Naturally, it was Huckenbeck who top scored for Landshut alongside Frenchman, Dimitri Berge (11).

#OPOWIT

After nearly winning their opening match in Germany, Wittstock Wolves were destroyed away at Opole this afternoon.

The Polish hosts won all of the first six heats, five of them with a 5:1.

And it didn’t stop there.

The final score was an unbelievable 69:21 with Jacob Thorssell scoring a paid maximum for the hosts and Danish U21 rider, Mads Hansen also getting in on the rout with 10 pts.

For the guests it was again, German U21 rider, Lukas Baumann that led the way with 10 pts, the only highlight in a dismal performance by the Wolves.

Today the two qualifiers for the U21 World Championships took place in Daugavpils and Gustrow.

Daugavpils

Motor Lublin’s Wiktor Lampart scored a maximum 15 pts to win the competition and Russian teammate, Mark Kairon also qualified with just one point less.

Latvians, Francis Gusts and Daniil Kołodinski used local knowledge to ensure their qualifications, whilst Ukraine’s Marko Levyshyn will return to the finals in 2021 after a brilliant finish with 3 wins after a poor start to the programme.

However, TV fans were treated to a four-man extra heat to decide the 6th and final place.

It was a third Latvian who made it to the final as Ernest Matjuszonok gated to win the deciding heat.

Sweden’s Philip Hellström Bängs failed to qualify when he came last in the race off. However, the real problem was an engine failure in Heat 14, which was the only heat he wasn’t first or second.

Wiktor Lampart POL 15

Mark Kairon RUS 13

Francis Gusts LAT 11+3

Daniil Kolodinski LAT 11+2

Marko Levyshyn UKR

Ernest Matjuszonok LAT +3

Full results, Daugavpils

Gustrow

This match was not televised but it was another Pole who is signed by an Ekstraliga club who won the competition. In Germany it was Częstochowa’s outstanding junior, Jakub Miskowiak who qualifying first from Gustrow. Assuming he maintains his current form, which places him at 13th in the Ekstraliga, the 19 year old will be the clear favourite when the competition begins in September.

The top six who qualified to the U21 World Championship are:

Jakub Miskowiak POL 14
Mads Hansen DAN 13+3
Jonas Seifert Salk DAN 13+2 (pictured)
Jan Kvech CZE 13+1
Alexander Woentin SWE 12
Steven Goret FRA 9

According to Speedwaynews.pl live updates, Australian Matthew Gilmore (5) was taken off in ambulance after being hit by Germany’s Lukas Baumann (7) riderless bike in heat 19.

Full results, Gustrow

The organizers will announce three wildcards in the coming days in addition to the 12 riders named above.