Ervins Muštukovs

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Ervins Muštukovs
Date of birth April 7, 1984
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 188 cm
Weight 68 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 39
Catch hand Left
Career stations
until 2000 HK Nik's Brih Riga
2000-2003 Stalkers Daugavpils
2003-2004 Drummondville Voltigeurs
2004-2006 HK Liepājas Metalurgs
2006-2007 Knoxville Ice Bears
Toledo Storm
2007-2008 Knoxville Ice Bears
Elmira Jackals
2008-2009 HK Riga 2000
2009-2010 Dinamo Juniors Riga
2010-2011 Sheffield Steelers
2011–2012 Odense Bulldogs
2012-2013 Mora IK
2013-2014 Esbjerg Energy
2014-2015 Aalborg Pirates
2015-2016 Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38
2016-2018 Sheffield Steelers

Ervīns Muštukovs (born April 7, 1984 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey goalkeeper who was most recently under contract with the Sheffield Steelers in the Elite Ice Hockey League .

Career

Ervins Muštukovs began his career as a hockey player in the Latvian ice hockey league , in which he was active from 1999 to 2003 for the HK Nik's Brih Riga and the Stalkers Daugavpils . The goalkeeper then spent a season with the Canadian junior team Drummondville Voltigeurs from the QMJHL . In the summer of 2004, the junior international returned to Latvia, where he was in the Belarusian extra league and the Latvian ice hockey league for HK Liepājas Metalurgs between the posts for the following two and a half years . With this he became Latvian runner-up in 2006.

After he had started the 2006/07 season at HK Liepājas Metalurgs, Muštukovs moved to the Knoxville Ice Bears from the Southern Professional Hockey League during the season . At the same time he ran for Toledo Storm in the ECHL . In the following season the Latvian was again under contract in Knoxville, as well as with the ECHL team of the Elmira Jackals . For the 2008/09 season he was committed by Dinamo Riga from the newly founded Continental Hockey League . For Dinamo, however, he played only two games in the KHL, while he completed the rest of the season at HK Riga 2000 in the Belarusian extra league .

The following season he spent with Dinamo Juniors Riga , with whom he was Latvian champion before he was committed in May 2010 by the Sheffield Steelers from the British Elite Ice Hockey League . With these he won the EIHL championship in the 2010/11 season, with Muštukovs having a significant share in winning the title and being honored with several individual awards for this. With a catch rate of 92.2 percent, he was the best goalkeeper in the league and set a new league record with ten shutouts . In May 2011 Muštukovs was signed for one year by the Odense Bulldogs from the AL-Bank Ligaen and changed employers annually in the following years. He played for Mora IK in HockeyAllsvenskan , for Esbjerg Energy , where he was elected to the Second All-Star Team of the Metal Ligaen and the best player of his team in 2014, for the Aalborg Pirates also from the Metal Ligaen and Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38 from Ligue Magnus , where he was also voted best player on his team. In 2016 he returned to Sheffield and won the Playoffs of the Elite Ice Hockey League with the Steelers in 2017. He himself made a significant contribution to this success with the best catch quota and the second lowest goal against goal behind Ben Bowns .

International

For Latvia , Muštukovs took part in the U18 Junior B World Championships in 2002 , the U20 Junior B World Championships in 2003 and 2004 and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Achievements and Awards

statistics

Seasons Games Victories Defeats draw Shutouts
KHL main round 1 2 0 1 0 0
KHL playoffs - - - - - -
ECHL regular season 2 30th 15th 9 3 3
ECHL playoffs 1 1 - - - -

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

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personal data
SURNAME Muštukovs, Ervīns
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mustukovs, Ervins
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR