Helmuts Balderis

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IIHF Hall of Fame , 1998
Helmuts Balderis
Date of birth July 31, 1952
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 180 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1989 , 12th round, 238th position
Minnesota North Stars
Career stations
1967-1977 Dinamo Riga
1977-1980 HK CSKA Moscow
1980-1985 Dinamo Riga
1989-1990 Minnesota North Stars
1991-1992 RSchWSM Riga
HK Vecmeistars Riga
1992-1994 Latvijas tent Riga
1994-1996 HK Essamika Ogre

Helmuts Balderis-Sildedzis (often also Helmut Balderis ; born July 31, 1952 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Soviet and Latvian ice hockey player and a member of the IIHF Hall of Fame .

Career

Balderis played in the Wysschaja Liga from 1969 to 1977 for Dinamo Riga , then from 1977 to 1980 for CSKA Moscow and then from 1980 to 1985 again for Dinamo Riga. In the 1977 and 1983 seasons he was the league's leading scorer and received the Izvestia newspaper award for it . He holds the goal record (333 goals) in the Soviet league.

Balderis also played for the Soviet national ice hockey team and was on the losing side in the legendary game ( Miracle on Ice ) against the USA at the 1980 Winter Olympics . But he was also able to celebrate many successes with his team - for example at the Ice Hockey World Championships in 1978 , 1979 and 1983 . He represented the Soviet Union at a total of five world championships (1976–1979, 1983) as well as at the Canada Cup in 1976 and the 1980 Winter Olympics.

At the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1977 he was honored as the best striker . Despite his continued very good performance, he was not appointed to the national team at the 1984 Winter Olympics , probably for political or sport-political reasons (at that time the national team consisted only of athletes from Moscow clubs, other Russian cities or Soviet republics were not represented) . Balderis was a top scorer among the Soviet strikers who played for the national team, but was never rewarded with an Olympic gold medal.

In 1985 he was allowed to leave the USSR and became a player-coach at Ōji Seishi in Japan . With Ōji he won the Japanese championship in 1987 and 1988 . After Soviet players were allowed to play in the NHL with the fall of the Iron Curtain , he started a second career. Balderis was drawn by the Minnesota North Stars in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft and played 26 times (3 goals; 6 assists) for North Stars. In this context, he also sets two new NHL records: he was the oldest player ever to be drafted (36) and the oldest shooter to ever score his first goal in the NHL (37). After only one season with the Stars, he retired again and trained HK Pardaugava Riga during the 1990/91 season .

When Latvia celebrated its independence in 1992, he became the captain of the new Latvian national team and played for them in a few games in which he scored two goals. He later became the coach of the national team and its general manager. Today he is a member of the Latvian Ice Hockey Federation .

In 1998 his extraordinary playing career was honored with the induction into the IIHF Hall of Fame . As early as 1978 he was awarded the title of Honored Master of Sports of the USSR .

Between 2009 and 2011 he was a member of the supervisory board of the Latvian pharmaceutical company OlainFarm .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1979 Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow
  • 1979 Winner of the USSR Cup with CSKA Moscow
  • 1979 European Cup with CSKA Moscow
  • 1980 Soviet champion with CSKA Moscow
  • 1983 Top scorer of the Vysschaya League (Izvestia Prize)
  • 1987 Japanese master with Ōji Seishi
  • 1988 Japanese master with Ōji Seishi
  • 1993 top scorer in the Latvian Ice Hockey League

International

Career statistics

season team league GP G A. Pts PIM
1967-68 Dinamo Riga Pervaya League
1968-69 Dinamo Riga Wtoraja League
1969-70 Dinamo Riga Wtoraja League 12 12 24
1970-71 Dinamo Riga Pervaya League 10 10 20th
1971-72 Dinamo Riga Pervaya League 14th 9 23 32
1972-73 Dinamo Riga Pervaya League 27 15th 42 57
1973-74 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 24 9 6th 15th 13
1974-75 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 36 34 14th 48 20th
1975-76 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 36 31 14th 45 18th
1976-77 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 35 40 23 63 57
1977-78 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 36 17th 17th 34 30th
1978-79 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 41 24 24 48 53
1979-80 CSKA Moscow Vysschaya League 42 26th 35 61 21st
1980-81 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 44 26th 24 50 28
1981-82 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 50 39 24 63 50
1982-83 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 40 32 31 63 39
1983-84 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 39 24 15th 39 18th
1984-85 Dinamo Riga Vysschaya League 39 31 20th 51 52
1989-90 Minnesota North Stars NHL 26th 3 6th 9 2
1991-92 HK Vecmeistars Riga Latvia 7th 23 18th 41 27
1991-92 RSchWSM-Energo Riga Wtoraja League 16 14th 12 26th 10
1992-93 Latvijas tent Riga Latvia 22nd 76 66 142 16
1993-94 Latvijas tent Latvia 7th 9 9 18th 39
1994-95 HK Essamika Ogre Latvia 1 0 1 1 0
1995-96 HK Essamika Ogre Latvia 30th 18th 36 54 12
Wysschaja League overall 462 333 247 580 399
NHL overall 26th 3 6th 9 2

International

Represented the USSR in:

Represented Latvia at:

year team event GP G A. Pts PIM
1971 USSR U19 European Championship 5 10 1 11 4th
1976 USSR Canada Cup 5 2 3 5 6th
1976 USSR WM 10 3 7th 10 6th
1976 CSKA Moscow Super Series 7th 4th 4th 8th 14th
1977 USSR WM 9 8th 7th 15th 4th
1978 USSR WM 10 9 2 11 8th
1979 USSR Challenge Cup 3 1 1 2 0
1979 USSR WM 8th 4th 5 9 9
1980 CSKA Moscow Super Series 5 5 2 7th 2
1980 USSR Olympia 7th 5 4th 9 5
1983 USSR WM 10 4th 5 9 22nd
1992 Latvia World Cup qualification 2 2 2 4th 0

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ПРИЗ САМОМУ МЕТКОМУ - ПРИЗ ГАЗЕТЫ "ИЗВЕСТИЯ" (Russian, accessed February 1, 2012)
  2. ↑ nhlstars.kulichki.net, Хелмут Балдерис
  3. ↑ olainfarm.lv, About elections of chairman of the Supervisory Council of JSC Olainfarm ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.olainfarm.lv
personal data
SURNAME Balderis, Helmuts
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balderis, Helmut; Балдерис, Хелмут (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player, coach and official, member of the IIHF Hall of Fame
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR