Jēkabs Rēdlihs

Jēkabs Rēdlihs
Date of birth	March 29, 1982
place of birth	Riga , Latvian SSR
size	187 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2002 , 4th round, 119th position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
1999-2000	Riga Juniors
2000-2001	HK Liepājas Metalurgs
2002-2006	Boston University
2006-2008	Syracuse crunch
2008-2009	HC Plzeň
2009-2014	Dinamo Riga
2014-2016	HC Karlovy Vary
2015	Piráti Chomutov
2016-2017	Dinamo Riga

Jēkabs Rēdlihs (born March 29, 1982 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian ice hockey player .

Career

Jēkabs Rēdlihs began his playing career with the Riga Juniors , for whom he played in the East European Hockey League (EEHL) for the first time in the 1999/2000 season . This was followed by a season at HK Liepājas Metalurgs , for which he again played in the EEHL and the Latvian ice hockey league . A year later he moved to North America to New York Apple Core in the EJHL , a US junior league. He was selected in the fourth round of the NHL Entry Draft 2002 by the Columbus Blue Jackets in 119th place. In the summer of 2002 he went to Boston University , for which he played in the North American college league for four years . In spring 2006 he signed his first professional contract with the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League (AHL). He stayed there for two years before moving to HC Plzeň from the Czech extra league towards the end of the 2007/08 season. For the Czechs he was on the ice for a year and a half.

Between 2009 and 2014 Rēdlihs played in his Latvian homeland for Dinamo Riga from the Continental Hockey League before he returned to the Czech Extra League .

International

For Latvia Rēdlihs took part in the junior division in the U18 Junior B World Championship in 2000 and the U20 Junior C World Championship in 2002 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the A World Championships in 2008 , 2010 and 2011 .

KHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	2	82	1	7th	8th	144
Playoffs	2	15th	0	2	2	20th

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

family

Jēkabs Rēdlihs has two brothers who also play ice hockey: his older brother Krišjānis and Miķelis .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Crunch Sign Defenseman Jekabs Redlihs ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Jēkabs Rēdlihs at hockeydb.com (English)
• Jēkabs Rēdlihs at eurohockey.com
• Jēkabs Rēdlihs at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Jēkabs Rēdlihs at hockeysfuture.com