Guntis Galviņš

Guntis Galviņš
Date of birth	January 25, 1986
place of birth	Talsi , Latvian SSR
size	187 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
number	# 58
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
2002-2004	Prizma Riga
2004-2006	HK Riga 2000
2006-2007	Vsetínská hokejová
2007	HK Riga 2000
2007-2008	Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2008-2013	Dinamo Riga
2013	HK Ugra Khanty-Mansiysk
2014	AIK Solna
2014-2015	HC Bolzano
2015-2018	Dinamo Riga

Guntis Galviņš (born January 25, 1986 in Talsi , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who was last under contract with Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League .

Career

Guntis Galviņš began his career at HK Prizma Riga , for whom he played in the East European Hockey League and the Latvian Championship . In 2004 he moved to HK Riga 2000 .

At the beginning of the 2006/07 season he played 39 games for Vsetínská hokejová in the Czech extra league , before returning to HK Riga 2000 in January 2007 and was again Latvian champions with this club. Shortly after the start of the following season, in October 2007, he moved to Hungary to Alba Volán Székesfehérvár . For his new club he played both in the Austrian Erste Bank ice hockey league and at the end of the season in the playoffs of the Hungarian ice hockey league . In these he won the Hungarian championship with his team . After this success he was signed by the management of the new KHL club Dinamo Riga , where he played until 2013 and won the Nadezhda Cup in 2013.

Between January and March 2014 Galviņš AIK Solna from Svenska Hockeyligan was under contract. He was then without a club before he was signed by HC Bozen in September 2014 . For the club from South Tyrol he collected 12 points scorer in 43 EBEL games before he returned to Dinamo Riga in July 2015. There he was under contract until the end of the 2017/18 season and was then without a club.

International

Early on in his career, Galviņš represented his home country in international tournaments. He took part in several U18 and U20 world championships . He managed to move up from Division I to the A World Championship at the U20 World Cup in 2005 with the Latvian junior team.

He has been a permanent member of the Latvian national team since 2005 and has since participated in twelve men's world championships: 2005 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 and 2018 .

Achievements and Awards

• 2005, 2006 and 2007 Latvian champion with the HK Riga 2000
• 2005 Promotion to the A world championship with the U20 national team
• 2008 Hungarian champion with Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
• 2012 KHL Defender of the Month for February
• 2013 Nadezhda Cup won with Dinamo Riga

statistics

KHL

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	9	400	32	105	137	217
Playoffs	4th	26th	0	7th	7th	16

(Status: end of the 2017/18 season)

International

year	team	event	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
2003	Latvia	U18 World Championship Div. I.	5	0	1	1	4th
2004	Latvia	U18 World Championship Div. I.	5	0	3	3	8th
2005	Latvia	U20 World Cup Div. I.	5	1	2	3	27
2005	Latvia	WM	6th	0	1	1	0
2006	Latvia	U20 World Cup	5	1	1	2	29
2006	Latvia	WM	6th	0	0	0	8th
2007	Latvia	WM	6th	1	2	3	8th
2008	Latvia	WM	6th	0	0	0	2
2009	Latvia	Olympic qualification	3	0	0	0	2
2009	Latvia	WM	7th	1	2	3	2
2010	Latvia	Olympia	2	0	0	0	0
2010	Latvia	WM	6th	1	1	2	8th
2012	Latvia	WM	7th	0	3	3	2
2014	Latvia	WM	7th	0	1	1	0
2015	Latvia	WM	7th	1	4th	5	0
2016	Latvia	WM	7th	0	2	2	2
2017	Latvia	WM	7th	0	1	1	2
2018	Latvia	WM	8th	1	1	2	0
Juniors overall			20th	3	7th	10	68
Men overall			85	5	18th	23	36

Web links

• Guntis Galviņš at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Guntis Galviņš at eurohockey.com