Kaspars Daugaviņš

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Kaspars Daugaviņš
Date of birth May 18, 1988
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 3rd round, 91st position
Ottawa Senators
KHL Junior Draft 2009 , 2nd round, 35th position
torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Career stations
until 2004 HK Riga 2000
2004-2005 HK CSKA Moscow II
2005-2006 HK Riga 2000
2006-2008 Toronto St. Michael's Majors
2008-2009 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors
2009-2011 Binghamton Senators
2011-2013 Ottawa Senators
2012 Dinamo Riga
2013 Boston Bruins
2013-2014 Genève-Servette HC
2014-2015 HK Dynamo Moscow
2015-2018 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
2018-2020 HK Spartak Moscow
since 2020 HK Vitjas

Kaspars Daugaviņš (born May 18, 1988 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Vitjas from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since May 2020 and plays there in the position of the left winger .

Career

Daugaviņš began his professional career in the 2003/04 season in his hometown at HK Riga 2000 , with which he was able to win the Latvian championship in 2004 and 2006 respectively . The 2005/05 season he spent with the second team of HK CSKA Moscow in the Pervaya League .

Kaspars Daugaviņš in the blue jersey of the Toronto St. Michael's Majors

In the NHL Entry Draft 2006 he was selected by the Ottawa Senators in the third round in 91st position and moved to North America for the 2006/07 season, to the Toronto St. Michael's Majors in the Canadian Junior League OHL .

In April 2007, Daugaviņš was recalled by the Ottawa Senators from the OHL in their own farm team , the Binghamton Senators , who play in the American Hockey League . There Daugaviņš was able to fight for a regular place at the end of the season. After the Senators training camp before the 2007/08 NHL season , however, he was sent back to his junior team in the OHL. During the following season he received three more assignments in the AHL. In the training camp of the Binghamton Senators in the summer of 2008 Daugaviņš secured a place in the AHL squad and completed 23 games before he was sent back to his junior team, which had since moved to Mississauga . There he stayed until the end of the 2008/09 season and was then selected in the first Junior Draft of the Continental Hockey League in the second round in 35th place by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod , who thus secured his transfer rights when switching to the KHL.

Daugaviņš (right) in the Binghamton Senators jersey (2011)
Mārtiņš Karsums (left) and Kaspars Daugaviņš in the jersey of HK Spartak Moscow (2018)

From summer 2009 he was a permanent member of the Binghamton Senators AHL squad . On January 14, 2010, he made his debut for the Ottawa Senators in de National Hockey League , where they defeated the New York Rangers 2-0. Due to the NHL lockout, he played for Dinamo Riga in the Continental Hockey League from September 2012 . On March 27, 2013, Daugaviņš , who was on the waiver list, was selected by the Boston Bruins . For the 2013/14 season , the Latvian signed a one-year contract with Genève-Servette HC from the National League A , with which he won the Spengler Cup . From April 2014 he was under contract with HK Dynamo Moscow in the Continental Hockey League and was the best scorer of his team in the 2014/15 season with 37 points. After a bad start to the 2015/16 season, Daugaviņš was put on the waiver list at the end of September 2015 and signed by Amur Khabarovsk . Four days later he was given to Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod as part of an exchange deal without having played a game for Amur. At Torpedo he was always one of the best scorers in the team for the next three years before moving to HK Spartak Moscow in May 2018 . He was active there for two seasons before moving to HK Witjas in May 2020 .

International

In the junior division Daugaviņš first played for Latvia at the U18 World Championships in 2004 , 2005 and 2006 in Division I. With the U20 national team in 2006 in the top division and in 2007 when he was the top scorer of the tournament, and in 2008 when he was again Top scorer (together with the French Stéphane Da Costa ) and also the best preparer of the tournament and thus contributed significantly to the promotion to the top division, in Division I.

At the Ice Hockey World Championship in Latvia in 2006 Daugaviņš made his debut in the Latvian national team. At the age of 17, he was the youngest player ever to appear for the Latvian team. A year later, at the 2007 World Cup in Russia, Daugaviņš was the second best scorer of the Latvian national team. At that time he was considered one of the greatest talents in world ice hockey. He was also part of the Latvian squad at the 2010 , 2012 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 and 2017 World Championships . At the 2015 to 2017 World Cup tournaments, he led the national team onto the ice as team captain.

In 2010 Daugaviņš received an invitation to the Latvian Olympic squad and finished twelfth with the national team in the Olympic ice hockey tournament . Four years later, at the Winter Games in Sochi , Daugaviņš scored two assists and reached eighth place with his Latvian teammates.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2003/04 HK Riga 2000 EEHL 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2003/04 HK Prizma Riga Latvia 14th 6th 6th 12 10 2 1 1 2 4th
2004/05 HK CSKA Moscow II Pervaya League 25th 0 3 3 4th - - - - -
2005/06 HK Riga 2000 Latvia 45 4th 11 15th 16 - - - - -
2006/07 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHL 61 18th 42 60 64 - - - - -
2006/07 Binghamton Senators AHL 11 2 0 2 7th - - - - -
2007/08 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 62 40 34 74 42 4th 2 1 3 4th
2007/08 Binghamton Senators AHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 30th 11 17th 28 35 11 2 7th 9 14th
2008/09 Binghamton Senators AHL 23 2 1 3 9 - - - - -
2009/10 Binghamton Senators AHL 72 21st 25th 46 16 - - - - -
2009/10 Ottawa Senators NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2010/11 Binghamton Senators AHL 73 19th 35 54 34 23 10 10 20th 8th
2011/12 Binghamton Senators AHL 7th 4th 2 6th 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Ottawa Senators NHL 65 5 6th 11 12 1 0 0 0 0
2012/13 Dinamo Riga KHL 35 5 9 14th 26th - - - - -
2012/13 Ottawa Senators NHL 19th 1 2 3 9 - - - - -
2012/13 Boston Bruins NHL 6th 0 1 1 0 6th 0 0 0 2
2013/14 Genève-Servette HC NLA 44 18th 26th 44 24 12 5 8th 13 2
2014/15 HK Dynamo Moscow KHL 56 22nd 15th 37 26th 11 1 3 4th 3
2015/16 HK Dynamo Moscow KHL 8th 1 3 4th 2 - - - - -
2015/16 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 44 14th 21st 35 12 11 3 2 5 25th
2016/17 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 47 10 22nd 32 41 4th 1 2 3 2
2017/18 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 56 11 16 27 18th 4th 0 2 2 0
2018/19 HK Spartak Moscow KHL 58 13 23 36 61 2 0 1 1 0
2019/20 HK Spartak Moscow KHL 59 19th 21st 40 22nd 6th 1 3 4th 2
NHL overall 91 6th 9 15th 21st 7th 0 0 0 2
KHL total 363 95 130 225 208 38 6th 13 19th 35

International

year team event Sp T V Pt SM +/- result
2004 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. IA 5 0 2 2 8th +2 4th Place
2005 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. IB 5 2 1 3 18th +2 2nd place
2006 Latvia U20 World Cup 6th 0 2 2 4th -10 9th place
2006 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. I. 5 5 4th 9 20th +6 1st place, promotion
2006 Latvia WM 3 0 1 1 2 0 10th place
2007 Latvia U20 World Cup Div. IA 5 3 7th 10 2 0 2nd place
2007 Latvia WM 6th 3 3 6th 0 +2 13th place
2008 Latvia U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 2 8th 10 4th +4 1st place, promotion
2008 Latvia WM 6th 0 0 0 0 -1 11th place
2010 Latvia Olympia 4th 0 0 0 2 -2 12th place
2010 Latvia WM 6th 2 1 3 0 0 11th place
2012 Latvia WM 7th 1 1 2 8th -2 10th place
2014 Latvia Olympia 4th 0 2 2 0 0 8th place
2014 Latvia WM 7th 2 3 5 42 +4 11th place
2015 Latvia WM 7th 5 4th 9 4th +2 13th place
2016 Latvia WM 7th 2 2 4th 0 -3 13th place
2016 Latvia Olympic torment. 3 2 3 5 2 +1 2nd place
2017 Latvia WM 7th 1 2 3 2 +1 10th place

Web links

Commons : Kaspars Daugaviņš  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eliteprospects.com, Dynamo Moskva 2014-2015
  2. ↑ Daugavins signs contract with Khabarovsk "Amur". In: baltic-course.com. September 24, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Daugavins traded to Skudra's "Torpedo". In: baltic-course.com. September 29, 2015, accessed November 5, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Каспарс Даугавиньш стал игроком «Спартака». In: spartak.ru. May 3, 2018, Retrieved March 5, 2019 (Russian).
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personal data
SURNAME Daugaviņš, Kaspars
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daugavins, Kaspars
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR