The team played nine pre-season games, finishing with a 7-2 record, and won their second straight Latvian Railways Cup (August 23-27), a pre-season KHL tournament.
All players and most of the team staff were killed on 7 September 2011 when the Yak-Service Yak-42 that was chartered by the team crashed on takeoff from Tunoshna Airport in Yaroslavl, into the Volga River.