Arvīds Reķis

Arvīds Reķis
Date of birth	1st January 1979
place of birth	Jūrmala , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union
size	182 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	# 6
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1996	Dubuque Fighting Saints
1996-2000	Erie Otters
2000-2003	Peoria Rivermen
2003-2008	Augsburg panther
2008-2010	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg
2010-2014	Dinamo Riga
2014-2019	Augsburg panther

Arvīds Reķis (born January 1, 1979 in Jūrmala , Latvian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player with German nationality, who for many years with the Augsburger Panthers and the Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg in the German Ice Hockey League and for Dinamo Riga in the continental Hockey league was active.

Career

Reķis began his career in 1995 in the US Junior League United States Hockey League , before moving to the Erie Otters in the Canadian Junior League Ontario Hockey League for the 1996/97 season. The native Latvian was under contract there for a total of four years and was one of the defenders with the best points within the team. He scored 146 scorer points in 259 completed games. After a brief engagement with the Indianapolis Ice in the Central Hockey League , which lasted only a few weeks, Arvīds Reķis joined the Peoria Rivermen in the summer of 2000 , the then farm team of the Worcester IceCats from the American Hockey League and the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League , with which he was henceforth active in the East Coast Hockey League .

Since he never got the chance to prove himself in the NHL and also only wore the jersey of the Worcester IceCats 18 times in the AHL, the left-shooter moved to Europe for the 2003/04 season . There he was signed by those responsible for the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League, for which the defender was active until 2008. The 2004/05 season was the only one in which he could reach the play-offs with Augsburg. There, however, the Panthers were eliminated in the first round, the play-off quarter-finals, in a Best of Seven series with 1: 4 defeats against the eventual German champions Eisbären Berlin .

After his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2007/08 season , the defensive player decided on a contract offer with league rivals Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg . There he received a contract that tied him to the club until the summer of 2009.

In April 2010 Reķis was signed by Dinamo Riga .

After a total of 19 years as a professional, 10 years with the Augsburg Panthers and 576 DEL games in which he scored 47 goals and 108 assists, Reķis ended his career in April 2019.

International

For Latvia Reķis took part in the junior division of the U18 junior C1 European championship in 1995 and the U20 junior B world championship in 1999 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the A-World Championships in 2003 , 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2010 and 2011 as well as at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1995/96	Dubuque Fighting Saints	USHL		35	3	3	6th	85
1996/97	Erie Otters	OHL		65	5	19th	24	101		5	1	2	3	2
1997/98	Erie Otters	OHL		60	9	36	45	77		7th	1	2	3	2
1998/99	Erie Otters	OHL		60	5	29	34	66		5	1	1	2	0
1999/00	Erie Otters	OHL		57	6th	29	35	93		13	1	4th	5	17th
1999/00	Indianapolis Ice	CHL		-	-	-	-	-		4th	0	0	0	0
2000/01	Peoria Rivermen	ECHL		64	12	21st	33	99		14th	6th	3	9	22nd
2001/02	Peoria Rivermen	ECHL		43	10	17th	27	32		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Worcester IceCats	AHL		18th	0	3	3	8th		3	0	0	0	0
2002/03	Peoria Rivermen	ECHL		57	4th	19th	23	56		4th	0	2	2	2
2003/04	Augsburg panther	DEL		46	5	15th	20th	81		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Augsburg panther	DEL		45	5	10	15th	44		4th	0	1	1	6th
2005/06	Augsburg panther	DEL		51	5	10	15th	52		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Augsburg panther	DEL		36	3	7th	10	62		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Augsburg panther	DEL		54	5	10	15th	88		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		50	11	12	23	106		6th	3	2	5	6th
2009/10	Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg	DEL		53	0	11	11	62		7th	0	1	1	6th
2010/11	Dinamo Riga	KHL		51	2	5	7th	57		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Dinamo Riga	KHL		39	0	3	3	28
2012/13	Dinamo Riga	KHL		39	1	4th	5	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Dinamo Riga	KHL		43	0	2	2	63		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Augsburg panther	DEL		41	1	5	6th	50		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Augsburg panther	DEL		45	2	7th	8th	54		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Augsburg panther	DEL		43	5	4th	9	20th		7th	0	1	1	0
2017/18	Augsburg panther	DEL		46	1	4th	5	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Augsburg panther	DEL		33	1	8th	9	28		9	0	0	0	6th
OHL total				242	25th	113	138	337		30th	4th	9	13	21st
ECHL total				164	26th	57	83	187		18th	6th	5	11	24
DEL total				543	44	103	147	677		33	3	5	8th	24
KHL total				172	3	14th	17th	170		-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Arvīds Reķis at eurohockey.com
• Arvīds Reķis at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oldest player in the league: Arvids Rekis ends his career. In: augsburger-allgemeine.de. April 26, 2019, accessed September 3, 2019 .