Artūrs Kulda

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Artūrs Kulda
Date of birth July 25, 1988
place of birth Leipzig , GDR
size 188 cm
Weight 88 kg
position defender
number # 5
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 7th round, 200th position
Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
until 2004 HK Prizma Riga
2004-2006 HK CSKA Moscow II
2006-2008 Peterborough Petes
2008-2011 Chicago Wolves
2011–2012 St. John's IceCaps
2012-2013 HK Sibir Novosibirsk
2013-2015 Salawat Yulayev Ufa
2015-2017 Jokerite
2017-2018 Kunlun Red Star
2018-2019 Severstal Cherepovets
since 2019 Severstal Cherepovets

Artūrs Kulda (born July 25, 1988 in Leipzig , GDR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Severstal Tscherepowez in the Continental Hockey League again since December 2019 .

Career

Kulda in the jersey of the Peterborough Petes

Kulda began his career at HK Prizma Riga , for whom he played in the Latvian ice hockey league for the first time in the 2003/04 season . In the 2005/06 season he played for the second team of HK CSKA Moscow before he was selected in the seventh round of the 2006 NHL Entry Draft by the Atlanta Thrashers in 200th place. Shortly thereafter, he was selected by the Peterborough Petes in the CHL Import Draft and played for that club in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) between 2006 and 2008 . Shortly before the AHL playoffs of the 2007/08 season , he was appointed to the Chicago Wolves squad and won the Calder Cup with his new team . As a result, he was a permanent member of the Wolves AHL squad.

In February 2010 he was called up for the first time in the NHL squad of the Atlanta Thrashers and made his debut on February 12, 2010 in the game against the Minnesota Wild . After relocating the Thrashers franchise to Winnipeg , Canada , the Latvian decided in July 2011 to sign a new contract with the Winnipeg Jets . In mid-July 2012, Kulda was signed by HK Sibir Novosibirsk from the Continental Hockey League and scored 16 points in 57 KHL games for the club. In October 2013 Kulda was signed by Salawat Yulayev Ufa for two years.

From October 2015 to June 2017 he was under contract with Jokerit . He took part in the 2015 Spengler Cup with the Finns and was appointed to the tournament's all-star team. In 2017 he switched to the Chinese league competitor Kunlun Red Star and was transferred to HC Sparta Prague from the Czech extra league in January 2018 .

In the 2018/19 season he was under contract with Severstal Tscherepowez and was then without a club. He was signed to Dinamo Riga in December 2019, but left Dinamo after just six games and returned to Severstal.

International

Artūrs Kulda played at the U18 World Championships in 2004 , 2005 and 2006 for the Latvian U18 junior selection in Division I. From 2006 he played for the U20 national team , which at the U20 Junior World Championships in Canada from the top division in the Division I was relegated, in which he then played in 2007 . In 2008 he rose again to the top division with the U20 selection and was voted the best defender of the tournament.

With the Latvian senior selection, Kulda took part in the 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014 and 2017 World Championships . He also represented his colors at the qualifying tournaments for the 2014 and 2018 Winter Olympics and at the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi himself.

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
2003/04 Prizma Riga Latvia 11 0 0 0 8th 2 0 0 0 0
2004/05 HK CSKA Moscow II Pervaya League
2005/06 CSKA Moscow II Pervaya League 44 5 12 17th
2006/07 Peterborough Petes OHL 58 2 9 11 83 - - - - -
2007/08 Peterborough Petes OHL 55 7th 27 34 87 5 1 3 4th 6th
2007/08 Chicago Wolves AHL 5 0 1 1 10 21st 1 4th 5 32
2008/09 Chicago Wolves AHL 57 1 14th 15th 59 - - - - -
2009/10 Chicago Wolves AHL 66 6th 19th 25th 46 14th 1 4th 5 8th
2009/10 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 4th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Chicago Wolves AHL 69 5 12 17th 73 - - - - -
2010/11 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 2 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2011/12 Winnipeg Jets NHL 9 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2011/12 St. John's IceCaps AHL 63 6th 14th 20th 62 12 0 1 1 8th
2012/13 HK Sibir Novosibirsk KHL 50 9 6th 15th 55 7th 0 1 1 0
2013/14 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 43 1 9 10 42 18th 1 4th 5 18th
2014/15 Salawat Yulayev Ufa KHL 45 4th 5 9 28 5 0 0 0 2
2015/16 Jokerite KHL 42 1 5 6th 36 6th 0 0 0 4th
2016/17 Jokerite KHL 44 0 11 11 28 3 0 1 1 4th
2017/18 Kunlun Red Star KHL 47 2 4th 6th 33 - - - - -
2017/18 HC Sparta Prague Extraliga (Czech Republic) 3 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 2
2018/19 Severstal Cherepovets KHL 59 2 5 7th 42 - - - - -

( 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 )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eliteprospects.com, Arturs Kulda
  2. ↑ allhockey.ru, Кулда: в АХЛ мне играть уже неинтересно ( German  Kulda: 'I'm not interested in playing in the AHL' ).
  3. ↑ latviansonline.com, Latvia's hockey juniors make their mark in Canada.
  4. ↑ Ulvis Brože: Kulda pievienojas Helsinku Jokerit. In: sportacentrs.com. October 4, 2015, accessed October 5, 2015 (Latvian).
  5. ↑ Andrejs Siliņš: Oficiāli: Arturs Kulda pievienojas Riga "Dinamo". In: sportacentrs.com. December 5, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 (Latvian).
  6. ↑ Arturs Kulda atstāj Riga "Dinamo" komandu. In: sports.tvnet.lv. December 27, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 (Latvian).
  7. ↑ eurohockey.net, Team Latvia U20 promoted.
Logo of Severstal Cherepovets
Squad of Severstal Tscherepowez in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Kulda, Artūrs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kulda, Arturs
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig , GDR