Ņikita Jevpalovs

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Ņikita Jevpalovs
Date of birth September 9, 1994
place of birth Riga , Latvia
size 186 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2011–2012 HK Riga
2012-2015 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand
2015-2017 San Jose Barracuda
2017-2018 Dinamo Riga
since 2018 Rocket de Laval

Ņikita Jevpalovs (born September 9, 1994 in Riga ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Rocket de Laval from the American Hockey League since July 2018 and plays for them in the position of the left winger .

Career

Jevpalovs spent his junior years until 2010 in his native city of Riga , where he became the Latvian U18 junior champion with SK Riga . The striker then moved to Canada for a season. There he ran for the South Muskoka Shield in the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League before returning to his Latvian homeland. In the service of HK Riga Jevpalovs played the 2011/12 season in the junior league Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga .

Jevpalovs in the jersey of the Latvian U20 team

After being selected in the CHL Import Draft , the Latvian dared to jump again to Canada in the summer of 2012, where he played for the Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec for the next three years . There the power forward quickly gained a foothold and increased his points yield from 39 in his rookie season , to 54 and then 100 points in his third and final year, which earned him the election to the Second All-Star Team of the league.

The 100-point season subsequently aroused the desires of the franchises from the National Hockey League , whereupon he was signed by the San Jose Sharks for the following two seasons in January 2015 . At the beginning of the 2015/16 game year , Jevpalovs joined their farm team , the San Jose Barracuda , in the American Hockey League . Since he could not quite meet expectations there, however, he was handed over to their cooperation partner from the ECHL at the end of the season . The attacker won the Kelly Cup with the Allen Americans at the end of the season . For the 2016/17 season he then returned to San Jose, where he continued to work with the Barracuda. However, the team did not extend its expiring contract in the summer of 2017, whereupon Jevpalovs received a trial contract with Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League in July 2017, which was expanded into a permanent engagement until the end of the season the following August.

In the summer of 2018, the Latvian finally returned to North America when he signed a contract with the Rocket de Laval from the American Hockey League .

International

For his home country, Jevpalovs was on the ice in the junior division at the U18 Junior World Championships 2012 as well as the U20 Junior World Championships in 2012 , U20 Junior World Championships in 2013 and 2014 in Division IA .

The striker first appeared for the senior national team in 2015. He made his debut at an international tournament as part of the 2018 World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2011/12 HK Riga MHL 58 8th 13 21st 52 1 1 0 1 2
2012/13 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand LHJMQ 60 18th 21st 39 36 15th 3 5 8th 2
2013/14 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand LHJMQ 61 28 26th 54 32 20th 10 6th 16 8th
2014/15 Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand LHJMQ 64 49 51 100 30th 5 1 5 6th 4th
2015/16 San Jose Barracuda AHL 60 5 9 14th 12 3 1 0 1 0
2015/16 All Americans ECHL 5 1 5 6th 12 15th 2 6th 8th 10
2016/17 San Jose Barracuda AHL 65 13 8th 21st 41 11 0 0 0 6th
2017/18 Dinamo Riga KHL 46 5 3 8th 10 - - - - -
2018/19 Rocket de Laval AHL 69 13 12 25th 38 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 185 95 98 193 98 40 14th 16 30th 14th
AHL total 194 31 29 60 91 14th 1 0 1 6th

International

Represented Latvia at:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
2012 Latvia U20 World Cup 9th place 6th 2 3 5 4th
2012 Latvia U18 World Cup 9th place 6th 1 2 3 0
2013 Latvia U20 World Cup 10th place 6th 2 1 3 8th
2014 Latvia U20 World Cup Div. IA 2nd place 5 4th 5 9 4th
2018 Latvia WM 8th place 8th 0 0 0 0
Juniors overall 23 9 11 20th 16
Men overall 8th 0 0 0 0

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Jevpalovs, Ņikita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jevpalovs, Nikita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvia