Herberts Vasiļjevs

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Herberts Vasiļjevs
Date of birth May 27, 1976
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 181 cm
Weight 80 kg
position Right wing
number # 23
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1994-1995 Krefeld penguins
1995-1996 Guelph Storm
1996-1997 Carolina Monarchs
1997-1998 Beast of New Haven
1998-1999 Kentucky Thoroughblades
1999-2001 Orlando Solar Bears
2001-2003 Manitoba mosses
2003-2004 Amur Khabarovsk
2004-2005 Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2005-2017 Krefeld penguins

Template: Infobox ice hockey player / country code 2

Herberts Vasiļjevs (born May 27, 1976 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player with German citizenship. During his career he played in the NHL , the AHL and the German Ice Hockey League . He took part in the Olympic Games three times with the Latvian national team.

Career

The 1.81 m tall son of KEV junior coach Haralds Vasiļjevs came to Germany with his father in the early 1990s, where he spent his youth in ice hockey. From the juniors of the EHC Dortmund , the then 18-year-old moved to Krefeld, for whose professional team Krefeld Pinguine he went on the ice from the 1994 season in the German Ice Hockey League .

In 48 games of the 1994/95 season Vasiļjevs was able to demonstrate his technical and running talent and scored four goals and nine points scorer . In the play-offs, in which the penguins were able to advance to the semifinals, another five points were added in 15 games, but the KEV went bankrupt and the Latvian moved to the Canadian junior league Ontario Hockey League , where he spent a year for the Guelph Storm was on the ice and scored 34 goals and 67 points in 65 games. In the following season 1996/97 Vasiļjevs signed a contract in the organization of the Florida Panthers , of which he was first used in their farm team , the Port Huron Border Cats from the Colonial Hockey League . He also played in the season for the Knoxville Cherokees from the East Coast Hockey League and the Carolina Monarchs in the American Hockey League , in which he was able to achieve 13 goals and 31 points in 54 games. In the summer of 1997, the winger finally moved to league competitor Beast of New Haven and finally made the breakthrough here. With 36 goals and 66 points in 76 games, the Latvian became the team's third-best scorer and top scorer.

This achievement brought Vasiļjevs in the 1998/99 season, his first appointment to the NHL team of the Panthers, for which he completed five games in the highest North American professional league and then played again in the AHL for the Kentucky Thoroughblades . With 28 goals in 76 games, the right-handed shooter finished second in the team's internal goalscorer, 48 assists made up the team's top score and his 76 points made him the top scorer, level with Steve Guolla . These good values ​​drew the attention of other teams to the Latvian, who was finally handed over to the Atlanta Thrashers in June 1999 together with Gord Murphy , Daniel Tjärnqvist and a six-round draft pick in exchange for top goalie Trevor Kidd .

In the Thrashers farm team, the Orlando Solar Bears from the International Hockey League , Herberts Vasiļjevs was able to achieve good values ​​with 73 appearances, 25 goals and 60 points, whereupon he was appointed to the NHL roster of the Atlanta franchise . The attacker was able to score his first goal in the best league in the world in seven missions, and in Orlando he was one of the top scorers in the following season. 22 goals and 48 points resulted in the Latvia's next appointment to the NHL squad, so that he was able to complete 21 games with the Thrashers and achieve good values ​​with four goals and nine points. Eight goals in twelve appearances during the play-offs, which Vasiļjevs spent back in Orlando after the Thrashers were eliminated, were top of the team, although he was not on the ice in four games.

After the attacker's contract with the Thrashers expired, he was signed by the Vancouver Canucks , for which he was able to book 18 additional NHL games with 3 goals and 2 assists before he was sent back to the farm team. At the Manitoba Moose from the AHL, Vasiļjevs did not get along and achieved ten goals and 39 points in 69 appearances, which are poor for his standards , and a negative plus / minus for the second time in his minor league career after his rookie season -Statistics.

The striker then moved to Amur Khabarovsk in the Russian Super League , where he scored four goals and eleven points in 37 appearances, but could not cope with the defensive style of play in Russia and then returned to the DEL, where he signed a contract with the Nürnberg Ice Tigers .

Here Vasiļjevs belonged for long stretches of the 2004/05 season to the top scorers in the league. Only a serious injury to the shoulder after a foul by Jacek Płachta from Hamburg on January 7, 2005 threw the Latvian back. At times it was even questionable whether he could ever return to the ice in the season, but six game days before the end of the season Vasiļjevs made his comeback in the Ice Tigers jersey. In the playoffs, however, the attacker could not yet call up his full performance and despite a goal and three points could not prevent the Franks from being eliminated in six games against Adler Mannheim . For the 2005/06 season Herberts Vasiļjevs signed a two-year contract with the Krefeld Penguins , where he started his career in the highest German professional league in 1994.

In the 2006/07 season he succeeded in the game against the Frankfurt Lions on December 15, 2006, a new DEL record, as the Latvian could record four goals and four assists in one game. In February 2007 Vasiļjevs' contract in Krefeld was extended by three more seasons until 2010, but initially contained a release clause for a team in the Russian Super League, which, however, was not drawn. He ultimately played for the Pinguine until the end of the 2016/17 season and ended his playing career on February 26, 2017 after the DEL game against Wolfsburg.

Records

Vasiļjevs is the player with the second most scorer points (509), games (639), assists (298), penalty minutes (667) and the most goals (211) of the penguins since their existence in the DEL (as of March 8, 2020). In the categories scorer points, games, assists and penalty minutes, Daniel Pietta , who was born in Krefeld and ranks second just behind Vasiļjevs, ranks second with 209 goals.

International

Herberts Vasiļjevs was a member of the Latvian national ice hockey team from 1998 to 2014 and took part in three Olympic Winter Games between 2006 and 2014 and eleven world championships between 1998 and 2014 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1994/95 Krefeld penguins DEL 42 4th 5 9 24 15th 1 4th 5 10
1995/96 Guelph Storm OHL 65 34 33 67 63 16 6th 13 19th 6th
1996/97 Carolina Monarchs AHL 54 13 18th 31 30th - - - - -
1996/97 Port Huron Border Cats CoHL 3 3 2 5 4th - - - - -
1997/98 Beast of New Haven AHL 76 36 30th 66 60 3 1 0 1 2
1998/99 Florida panthers NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1998/99 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 76 28 48 76 66 12 2 1 3 4th
1999/00 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 7th 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1999/00 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 73 25th 35 60 60 6th 2 2 4th 6th
2000/01 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 58 22nd 26th 48 32 12 8th 3 11 14th
2000/01 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 21st 4th 5 9 14th - - - - -
2001/02 Vancouver Canucks NHL 18th 3 2 5 2 - - - - -
2001/02 Manitoba mosses AHL 31 12 14th 26th 10 - - - - -
2002/03 Manitoba mosses AHL 69 10 29 39 30th 14th 3 5 8th 8th
2003/04 Amur Khabarovsk RSL 37 4th 7th 11 38 - - - - -
2004/05 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 39 15th 23 38 40 6th 1 2 3 6th
2005/06 Krefeld penguins DEL 50 24 21st 45 67 5 2 3 5 4th
2006/07 Krefeld penguins DEL 51 30th 24 54 78 2 1 2 3 0
2007/08 Krefeld penguins DEL 53 24 33 57 54 - - - - -
2008/09 Krefeld penguins DEL 52 20th 35 55 40 7th 3 1 4th 2
2009/10 Krefeld penguins DEL 51 22nd 36 58 92 - - - - -
2010/11 Krefeld penguins DEL 52 16 33 49 38 8th 6th 3 9 32
2011/12 Krefeld penguins DEL 26th 4th 9 13 20th - - - - -
2012/13 Krefeld penguins DEL 50 18th 29 47 87 9 8th 2 10 10
2013/14 Krefeld penguins DEL 11 3 4th 7th 8th 5 2 2 4th 0
2014/15 Krefeld penguins DEL 46 7th 16 23 47 - - - - -
2015/16 Krefeld penguins DEL 52 12 28 40 28 - - - - -
2016/17 Krefeld penguins DEL 52 4th 9 13 26th - - - - -
AHL total 306 99 139 238 196 29 6th 6th 12 14th
IHL total 131 47 61 108 92 18th 10 5 15th 20th
NHL overall 51 8th 7th 15th 22nd - - - - -
DEL total 627 203 305 508 649 57 24 19th 43 64

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
1998 Latvia WM 6th 0 2 2 4th
2000 Latvia WM 1 0 0 0 4th
2004 Latvia WM 7th 0 1 1 0
2005 Latvia WM 6th 0 0 0 0
2006 Latvia Olympia 6th 1 0 1 10
2006 Latvia WM 6th 1 0 1 10
2007 Latvia WM 6th 2 3 5 8th
2008 Latvia WM 6th 2 1 3 10
2009 Latvia WM 7th 3 6th 9 6th
2010 Latvia Olympia 4th 1 1 2 6th
2010 Latvia WM 6th 0 3 3 8th
2011 Latvia WM 6th 1 1 2 6th
2014 Latvia Olympia 3 1 0 1 0
2014 Latvia WM 7th 1 2 3 4th

( 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. ↑ Herberts Vasiljevs has ended his career - Official website of KEV Pinguine Eishockey GmbH. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on February 27, 2017 ; accessed on February 26, 2017 . 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.krefeld-pinguine.de
  2. ↑ Ice Hockey News Special Edition 2019/20, page 155
personal data
SURNAME Vasiļjevs, Herberts
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian-German ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR