Aleksandrs Ņiživijs

Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (born September 16, 1976 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player who was most recently under contract as an assistant coach at Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Aleksandrs Ņiživijs began his career at HK Pardaugava Riga , for whom he played in the Interstate Hockey League and the Latvian Ice Hockey League until 1995 . From 1995 he ran for Torpedo Yaroslavl and stayed with the club until 2001. In 1997 he won the Russian championship with Torpedo . Further stations in Russia were HK Dynamo Moscow and Molot-Prikamje Perm before Ņiživijs returned to his homeland in 2003. With the HK Riga 2000 he was 2004 Latvian champion . Via IF Björklöven from the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan , he joined the Russian second division team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in 2005 , with whom he rose to the super league in 2007. After the founding of the KHL participant Dinamo Riga in April 2008, Aleksandrs Ņiživijs moved to his homeland.

On September 2, 2008 Ņiživijs scored the first goal in KHL history against Amur Khabarovsk . Dinamo Riga won this first KHL game 4-2.

In early January 2013, after Dinamo no longer had a chance of reaching the play-offs, Ņiživijs was given to HC Lev Prague .

Ņiživijs represented his home country in international competitions early on in his career. His first tournament was the U18 European Junior Championship in 1993 . Further assignments in the junior division followed at the U18 European Junior Championship in 1994 and the U20 World Championship in 1994 and 1995 . From 1995 he played for the men's national team of Latvia at many world championships ( 1995 , 1999 , 2000 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 and 2009 ). He also took part in the 2002 and 2006 Winter Olympics.

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	156	33	65	98	77
Playoffs	3	22nd	6th	8th	14th	6th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)