Aleksandrs Erofejevs

Latvia Aleksandrs Erofejevs


Date of birth	April 12, 1984
place of birth	Riga , Latvian SSR
size	188 cm
Weight	86 kg

position	defender
Shot hand	Left

Career stations

until 2000	HK Nik's Brih Riga
2000-2003	Stalkers / Juniors Daugavpils
2003-2004	HK Liepājas Metalurgs
2004-2005	Sioux Falls Stampede
2005-2006	Roanoke Valley Vipers
2006-2007	Ilves Tampere HK Aquacity ŠKP Poprad
2007-2009	HC Sparta Prague
2009	Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk
2009-2011	Metallurg Novokuznetsk
2011–2012	HC Slovan Bratislava
2012-2013	HK Kuban Krasnodar
2013-2014	Neftjanik Almetyevsk
2014-2018	Dinamo Riga
since 2018	HK Prizma Riga

Aleksandrs Jerofejevs (born April 12, 1984 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Prizma Riga in the Latvian ice hockey league since August 2018 .

Career

Aleksandrs Jerofejevs began his career as a hockey player in his hometown at HK Nik's Brih Riga , for whose first team he was active in the Latvian ice hockey league in the 1999/2000 season . He then spent three years with his league rivals Stalkers / Juniors Daugavpils , before playing for HK Liepājas Metalurgs in the Latvian Ice Hockey League and the international East European Hockey League in the 2003/04 season. From 2004 to 2006 he played one season each for the Sioux Fall Stampede in the junior league United States Hockey League , as well as the Roanoke Valley Vipers from the lower-class professional league United Hockey League . There the Latvian national player managed to attract attention with 33 points in 61 games, so that he was signed by Ilves Tampere from the Finnish SM-liiga . After only six games in which he remained pointless, however, he moved to HK Aquacity ŠKP Poprad from the Slovak extra league, where he ended the season.

Aleksandrs Erofejevs (2008)

For the 2007/08 season Jerofejevs signed with the reigning Czech champions HC Sparta Prague , with whom he failed at the European level only in the final of the IIHF European Champions Cup against the Russian opponent HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk . After he had started the following season in Prague, he accepted the offer of Neftechimik Nizhnekamsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , with which he was defeated in the first round of the playoffs for the Gagarin Cup to the eventual finalist Lokomotive Yaroslavl . In the 2009/10 and 2010/11 season the Latvian was under contract with Metallurg Novokuznetsk in the KHL. In September 2011 he was hired by Timrå IK from the Swedish Elitserien , where he initially received a try-out contract, from which he was released after nine days.

In December 2011 he received a contract with HC Slovan Bratislava from the Slovak Extraliga and subsequently played 31 games for Slovan, winning the championship with Slovan before moving to HK Kuban Krasnodar in the Wysschaja Hockey League in July 2012 . A year later he was obliged by KHL newcomer Admiral Vladivostok , but was only used in the second division of the partner team Neftjanik Almetyevsk .

Between 2014 and 2018 Jerofejevs played at Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League before moving to HK Prizma Riga in August 2018 .

For Latvia , Jerofejevs took part in the U20 Junior B World Championships in 2004 , as well as in the Senior World Championships in 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 and 2010 . Furthermore, he was in his country's squad to qualify for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver .

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	3	90	5	14th	19th	69
Playoffs	1	4th	0	0	0	4th

(Status: end of the 2013/14 season)