Edgars Lūsiņš

Edgars Lūsiņš
Date of birth	December 25, 1984
place of birth	Riga , Latvian SSR
size	174 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	goalkeeper
Catch hand	Left
Career stations
2000-2001	Stalkers Juniors Daugavpils
2001-2002	Indianapolis Park Tudor Prep
2002-2003	Dayton Gems
2003-2005	HK Zemgale
2005-2007	ASK Ogre
2007-2009	HK Riga 2000
2009	HK Ozolnieki / Monarhs
2009-2010	REV Bremerhaven
2010-2011	Dinamo Riga
2011	HC must
2011–2012	Hanover Indians
2012-2013	Copenhagen Hockey
2014-2017	Prizma Riga

Edgars Lūsiņš (born December 25, 1984 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey goalkeeper who was last under contract with Prizma Riga in the Latvian ice hockey league.

Career

Edgars Lūsiņš began his career as a hockey player with Stalkers Juniors Daugavpils , for which he made his debut in the Latvian ice hockey league in the 2000/01 season . He then played for two and a half years for the lower class North American junior teams Indianapolis Park Tudor Prep, Dayton Gems and Traverse City Enforcers before returning to Latvia during the 2003/04 season. There he played for HK Zemgale until 2005 . Thereupon the goalkeeper stood in the following four years for the ASK Ogre , HK Riga 2000 and HK Ozolnieki / Monarhs in the Latvian ice hockey league between the posts. With HK Riga 2000 he also took part in the Belarusian extra league in the 2008/09 season .

For the 2009/10 season Lūsiņš received a contract with REV Bremerhaven from the 2nd Bundesliga . There he was able to draw attention to himself with a goal average of 2.80 in the 33 main round games of his team, so that Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League signed him on a trial contract before the following season . The 2011/12 season began the Latvian with the Czech second division club HC Most , before Lūsiņš was committed in December 2011 by the Hanover Indians , who needed a back-up goalkeeper after the injury-related loss of Peter Holmgren .

After his engagement in Hanover, Lūsiņš moved to Copenhagen Hockey in the Danish Metal Ligaen . Between 2014 and 2017 he was then under contract with Prizma Riga in the Latvian ice hockey league and was one of the statistically best goalkeepers there.

International

For Latvia , Lūsiņš took part in the U20 Junior B World Championship in 2004 and the World Championship in 2010 . At the U20 World Cup in 2018 he was assistant coach of the Latvian team , which played in the A group of Division I.

Achievements and Awards

• 2009 Best goalkeeper in the Latvian Ice Hockey League
• 2015 Best goalkeeper in the Latvian Ice Hockey League
• 2016 All-Star Game of the Latvian Ice Hockey League

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Victories	Dutch	Indecisive	Shutouts	ATM
2nd BL main round	1	33	14th	18th	-	0	2.80
2. BL relegation	1	5	4th	1	-	-	1.97
KHL main round	1	4th	1	2	1	0	2.63

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Edgars Lūsiņš at hockeydb.com (English)
• Edgars Lūsiņš at eliteprospects.com (English)