Dinamo Riga

This article deals with the 2008 newly founded ice hockey club Dinamo Riga, for the team of the same name, which existed from 1940 to 1995, see Dinamo Riga (1940–1995) .

Dinamo Riga
Club information
history	Dinamo Riga (since 2008)
Location	Riga , Latvia
Club colors	bordeaux, white
league	Continental hockey league
Venue	Riga Arena
capacity	11,000 seats
executive Director	Juris Opuļskis
Head coach	Ģirts Ankipāns
Season 2018/19	9th place (west), no playoff qualification

Dinamo Riga ( Latvian Rīgas "Dinamo" , Russian Динамо Рига ) is a Latvian ice hockey club from Riga , Latvia . It was formed on April 7, 2008 to play in the new Continental Hockey League . The club is owned by several companies and individuals, including Itera Latvija (Latvian gas company owned by Gazprom ), Guntis Ulmanis (the fifth president of Latvia), Aigars Kalvītis (former Prime Minister of Latvia) and Aldis Pauniņš .

history

At the end of May 2008, the former HK Riga 2000 coach, the Slovak Július Šupler , was introduced as the new head coach. His compatriot Miroslav Miklošovič was hired as an assistant coach from the Slovak first division club HC Slovan Bratislava . A short time later, one of the co-owners, Viesturs Koziols , announced that Dinamo Riga would not sign any Russian players and that they would only sign other top European players besides Latvian national players.

Player uniform for the 2011/12 season

In June and July 2008 Marcel Hossa were then signed by the Phoenix Coyotes , Matt Ellison and Filip Novák to strengthen the squad. Later came Duvie Westcott and Ronald Petrovický and Artūrs Irbe , who was hired as a goalkeeper coach. The HK Riga 2000 of the Latvian Hockey League acted in the 2008/09 season as a farm team of the club.

After a robbery on goalkeeper Edgars Masaļskis in September 2008, in which Masaļskis was injured, the management of the club signed the Swedish goalkeeper Daniel Sperrle for two months with an option to renew his contract for the entire season. However, the contract with Sperrle was terminated at the end of October 2008. Instead, the Czech Martin Prusek , who was henceforth the team's regular goalkeeper, was signed. At the end of the season they finished tenth in the KHL and reached the playoff round of 16, where they lost all three games against HK Dynamo Moscow and were eliminated.

In the summer of 2009, Mark Hartigan , Matt Ellison , Filip Novák and Duvie Westcott left the club. Martin Kariya , Mike Iggulden and Lee Sweatt were signed as replacements . The biggest sensation, however, was the signing of the contract by NHL veteran Sandis Ozoliņš , who returned after a year of inactivity and also took over the captaincy. Due to financial problems, the HK Riga dissolved in 2000, so that Dinamo founded its own farm team with the Dinamo Juniors Riga , which took part in the Belarusian extra league. After a year, this junior team was transferred to HK Riga , which has been participating in the Molodjoschnaja Chokkeinaja Liga (MHL) since 2010 .

For the 2011/12 season, the Finn Pekka Rautakallio was signed as head coach and replaced all foreign players except for goalkeeper Chris Holt with new signings.

As a representative of the KHL , Dinamo Riga took part in the Spengler Cup 2011 and only lost to HC Davos in the final .

Placements in the KHL

season	Regular season	Play-off round	Play-off opponents	Overall result
2008/09	10th place	Round of 16	HK Dynamo Moscow	0: 3
2009/10	08th place (western conference)	Quarter finals	HK MWD Balashikha	1: 4
2010/11	07th place (western conference)	Quarter finals	Yaroslavl locomotive	1: 4
2011/12	07th place (western conference)	Round of 16	Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod	3: 4
2012/13	14th place (western conference)	not qualified
2013/14	05th place (western conference)	Round of 16	HK Donbass Donetsk	3: 4
2014/15	12th place (western conference)	not qualified
2015/16	12th place (western conference)	not qualified
2016/17	14th place (western conference)	not qualified

Trainer

Head coach	Period	Assistant coach		Games *	Win share%
Július Supler	June 25, 2008–29. March 2011	Miroslav Miklošovič (June 25, 2008– July 10 , 2010)	Artis Ābols	136	44.1%	45.7%
		Viktors Ignatjevs (July 10, 2010– May 2, 2014)		65	49.2%
Pekka Rautakallio	April 27, 2011–5. November 2012			85	43.5%
Artis Ābols	November 5, 2012–2015			28	32.1%
			Ģirts Ankipāns (July 1, 2013–2015)
		Aleksandrs Ņiživijs (July 18, 2014-2017)
Kari Heikkilä	June 7, 2015–7. January 2016		Raimo Helminen
Normunds Sejejs	January 7, 2016–1. July 2017	Aigars Cipruss	Sandis Ozoliņš
Sandis Ozoliņš	since 2017	Aleksandrs Ņiživijs	Rodrigo Laviņš

player

Squad for the 2019/20 season

Status: August 2020

No.	Nat.	player	Item	Date of birth	in the team since	place of birth
40		Stanislav Galimov	G	February 12, 1988	2020	Chelyabinsk , Russian SFSR
73		Ilya Proskuryakov	G	February 21, 1987	2020	Surgut , Russian SFSR
73		Oskars Bārtulis	D.	January 21, 1987	2019	Ogre , Latvian SSR
2		Kristofer Berglund	D.	August 12, 1988	2019	Umeå , Sweden
4th		Morgan Ellis	D.	April 30, 1992	2020	Summerside , Prince Edward Island , Canada
56		Sergei Gimaev	D.	February 16, 1984	2018	Moscow , Russia
5		Andrew O'Brien	D.	November 21, 1992	2020	Hamilton , Ontario , Canada
24		Reece Scarlett	D.	March 31, 1993	2020	Edmonton , Alberta , Canada
11		Kristaps Sotnieks	D.	January 29, 1987	2018	Riga , Latvian SSR
		Ondřej Vitásek	D.	04th September 1990	2020	Prostějov , Czechoslovakia
7th		Kristaps Zīle	D.	December 24, 1997	2016	Riga , Latvia
9		Carter Ashton	RW	0April 1, 1991	2019	Winnipeg , Manitoba , Canada
91		Daniels Bērziņš	F.	0February 6, 1999	2017	Riga , Latvia
10		Lauris Dārziņš -  C.	LW	January 28, 1985	2014	Riga , Latvian SSR
25th		Andris Džeriņš	C.	February 14, 1988	2018	Aiviekste , Latvian SSR
		Mārtiņš Dzierkals	W.	0April 4, 1997	2020	Riga , Latvia
81		Colton Gillies	C.	February 12, 1989	2016	White Rock , British Columbia , Canada
49		Emīls Ģēģeris	F.	July 23, 1999	2017	Riga , Latvia
		Miks Indrašis	RW	September 30, 1990	2020	Riga , Latvian SSR
67		Konstantin Komarek	RW	0November 8, 1992	2020	Vienna , Austria
34		JC Lipon	RW	July 10, 1993	2020	Regina , Saskatchewan , Canada
97		Roberts Lipsbergs	W.	July 29, 1994	2016	Riga , Latvia
29		Rihards Marenis	F.	April 18, 1993	2018	Riga , Latvia
88		Brandon McMillan	C.	March 22, 1990	2017	Delta , British Columbia , Canada
87		Gints Meija -  A	RW	04th September 1987	2008	Riga , Latvian SSR
		Zack Mitchell	RW	0January 7, 1993	2020	Orangeville , Ontario , Canada
27		Denis Parschin	LW	0February 1, 1986	2020	Andropov , Russian SFSR
79		Vitālijs Pavlovs	RW	June 17, 1989	2015	Riga , Latvian SSR
19th		Miķelis Rēdlihs -  A.	RW	0July 1, 1984	2014	Riga , Latvian SSR
53		Pavel Chernov	C.	January 30, 1990	2020	Navapolatsk , Belarusian SSR
		Matt White	W.	23rd August 1989	2020	Whittier , California , USA

Team captains

Aleksejs Širokovs	Jul 30, 2008 - Nov 10, 2008
Rodrigo Laviņš	Nov 10, 2008 - Jul 27, 2009
Sandis Ozoliņš	Jul 27, 2009 - Mar 10, 2012
Guntis Galviņš	03rd Sep 2012 - Dec 19, 2012
Mārtiņš Karsums	December 19, 2012 - March 20, 2013
Sandis Ozoliņš	Aug 21, 2013 - May 27, 2014
Georgijs Pujacs	Aug 25, 2014 - Nov 14, 2014
Marcel Hossa	Nov 16, 2014 - Dec 19, 2014
Lauris Dārziņš	Dec 19, 2014 - Dec 16, 2015
Kristaps Sotnieks	Dec 16, 2015 - May 1, 2016 0
Gints Meija	0Aug 1, 2016 - May 1, 2017 0
Miks Indrašis	0Aug 1, 2017 - May 1, 2018 0
Lauris Dārziņš	since Aug. 1, 2018 0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Medvedev with gas and money on the hockey throne
2. ↑ baltic-pages.com, Kalvitis has already invested 50,000 lats in Dinamo Riga and is planning another 150,000 lats  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ július šupler to coach Dinamo Riga. In: iihf.com. May 25, 2008, accessed June 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ esports.lv, Rīgas "Dinamo" sastāvā nespēlēs Krievijas hokejisti  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ↑ hockeyfans.ch, Marcel Hossa moves to Latvia
6. ↑ Sandis Ozolins goes home. In: iihf.com. July 7, 2009, accessed June 13, 2017 . 
7. ↑ spenglercup.ch, Spengler Cup results 2011

Web links

• official website
• Dinamo Riga Statistics on QuantHockey.com