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 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
- 2008 Promotion to the top division at the U20 World Cup in Division I, Group B
- 2008 Best defender at the U20 World Cup, Division I, Group B
- 2008 Calder Cup win with the Chicago Wolves
- 2010 Best plus / minus balance of the American Hockey League
- 2016 All-Star-Team of the Spengler Cup
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2018/19 season
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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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
- Artūrs Kulda at eurohockey.com
- Artūrs Kulda at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ eliteprospects.com, Arturs Kulda
- ↑ allhockey.ru, Кулда: в АХЛ мне играть уже неинтересно ( German Kulda: 'I'm not interested in playing in the AHL' ).
- ↑ latviansonline.com, Latvia's hockey juniors make their mark in Canada.
- ↑ Ulvis Brože: Kulda pievienojas Helsinku Jokerit. In: sportacentrs.com. October 4, 2015, accessed October 5, 2015 (Latvian).
- ↑ Andrejs Siliņš: Oficiāli: Arturs Kulda pievienojas Riga "Dinamo". In: sportacentrs.com. December 5, 2019, accessed December 19, 2019 (Latvian).
- ↑ Arturs Kulda atstāj Riga "Dinamo" komandu. In: sports.tvnet.lv. December 27, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 (Latvian).
- ↑ eurohockey.net, Team Latvia U20 promoted.
Goalkeeper:
Alexei Artamkin |
Wladislaw Podjapolski
Defender:
Geoff Kinrade |
Konstantin Kornejew |
Wadim Kudako |
Artūrs Kulda |
Shawn Lalonde |
Ivan Lekomzew |
Alexander Makarov |
Vladislav Provolnev |
Valery Vasilyev
attacker:
Yevgeny Bodrov |
Roberts Bukarts |
Artyom Gareev |
Nikolai Kazakovtsev |
Yevgeny Lapenkov |
Adam Liška |
Sergei Monakhov |
Joonas Nättinen |
Ivan Sakharchuk |
Yuri Trubachev ( A ) |
Denis Wicharew |
Daniil Vowschenko
Head coach: Andrei Razin Assistant coach: Andrei Karpin | Yevgeny Mikhalkevich General Manager: Mikhail Shchedrin
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kulda, Artūrs |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kulda, Arturs |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig , GDR |