Rūdolfs Balcers
 Rūdolfs Balcers 
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| Date of birth | April 8, 1997 |
| place of birth | Liepāja , Latvia |
| size | 182 cm |
| Weight | 79 kg |
| position | Left wing |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Draft | |
| NHL Entry Draft |
2015 , 5th round, 142nd position San Jose Sharks |
| Career stations | |
| until 2013 | Lørenskog IK |
| 2013-2014 | Viking hockey |
| 2014-2016 | Stavanger Oilers |
| 2016-2017 | Kamloops Blazers |
| 2017-2018 | San Jose Barracuda |
| since 2018 |
Ottawa Senators Belleville Senators |
Rūdolfs Balcers (* 8. April 1997 in Liepaja ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who since September 2018 when the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League is under contract and in parallel for their farm team , the Belleville senator , in the American Hockey League on the position of the left winger plays.
Career
Balcers, who was born in the Latvian port city of Liepāja , comes from the offspring of the Norwegian club Lørenskog IK . The striker went through the youth department up to the U20 team, in which he made his debut at the age of 16, before moving to the Stavanger Oilers within Norway in summer 2013 . The Oilers used Balcers on loan from city rivals and second division Viking Hockey . There he played in the U18 team, but made his debut in the course of the 2013/14 season both for Viking in the 1st division in the professional area and for the Oilers in the GET leagues .
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At the beginning of the 2014/15 season , the Latvian was in the professional squad of the Stavanger Oilers and played 36 of the 45 main round games. For the playoffs Balcers was posted to the U20 team, with whom he was runner-up. The professional team, however, won the Norwegian championship , whose master squad the attacker also belonged to because of the games played. In the summer of 2015 he was finally selected in the fifth round in the fifth round of the 2015 NHL Entry Draft by the San Jose Sharks from the National Hockey League . However, Balcers stayed in Norway and celebrated with Stavanger in the 2015/16 season the renewed win of the national title, to which he played a significant role as the third best scorer of his team in the playoffs.
For the 2016/17 game year , the Latvian dared to jump to North America. There he joined the Kamloops Blazers from the Canadian Junior League Western Hockey League after they had selected him in the CHL Import Draft . In the service of the Blazers, Balcers was the most successful goalscorer of the entire team and among all rookies in the entire league with 40 goals . He was then signed by the San Jose Sharks in July 2017, who used him on their farm team during the 2017/18 season . In the San Jose Barracuda from the American Hockey League , the offensive player was the most successful player on the team with 48 points and was invited to the AHL All-Star Classic during the season .
After a year in San Jose, however, Balcers and Chris Tierney , Dylan DeMelo , young player Josh Norris and a number of options for the NHL Entry Draft were given to the Ottawa Senators . In return, Erik Karlsson and Francis Perron moved to the Sharks.
International
For his home country Balcers was in the junior division in numerous world championship tournaments. With the U18 juniors, the striker completed the U18 Junior World Championship of Division IA 2014 , in which he was promoted to the top division. There he reached ninth place with the team the following year and thus relegation. At the end of the previous year, Balcers had already participated with the Latvian U20 team in the U20 Junior World Championship of Division IA 2015 . He also competed in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2016 in Division IA , in which the team managed to return to the top division. The 2017 U20 Junior World Championship was his last international junior tournament.
His debut in the senior team celebrated Balcers as part of the 2018 World Cup in Denmark . A year later he was also part of the Latvian squad at the 2019 World Cup in Slovakia , where he was the top scorer of his team with nine points.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 2014 promotion to the top division at the U18 Junior World Championship of Division IA
- In 2016 promotion to the top division at the U20 Junior World Championship in Division IA
Career statistics
Status: end of the 2019/20 season
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| season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
| 2012/13 | Lørenskog IK | U18 elite series | 26th | 20th | 17th | 37 | 26th | 2 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 2 | ||
| 2012/13 | Lørenskog IK | U20 elite series | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2013/14 | Viking hockey | U18 elite series | 22nd | 35 | 23 | 58 | 20th | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2013/14 | Viking hockey | 1. divisjon | 10 | 6th | 3 | 9 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2013/14 | Stavanger Oilers | GET leagues | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2014/15 | Stavanger Oilers | U18 elite series | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2014/15 | Stavanger Oilers | U20 elite series | 7th | 6th | 3 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 14th | 9 | 23 | 14th | ||
| 2014/15 | Stavanger Oilers | GET leagues | 36 | 8th | 13 | 21st | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2015/16 | Stavanger Oilers | U20 elite series | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2015/16 | Stavanger Oilers | GET leagues | 43 | 15th | 9 | 24 | 16 | 17th | 6th | 4th | 10 | 4th | ||
| 2016/17 | Kamloops Blazers | WHL | 66 | 40 | 37 | 77 | 16 | 6th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2017/18 | San Jose Barracuda | AHL | 67 | 23 | 25th | 48 | 13 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | ||
| 2018/19 | Belleville Senators | AHL | 43 | 17th | 14th | 31 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2018/19 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 36 | 5 | 9 | 14th | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2019/20 | Belleville Senators | AHL | 33 | 16 | 20th | 36 | 14th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| 2019/20 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 15th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
| U18 elite series overall | 48 | 55 | 40 | 95 | 46 | 6th | 6th | 3 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| U20 elite series overall | 11 | 7th | 5 | 12 | 2 | 16 | 14th | 10 | 24 | 14th | ||||
| GET leagues in total | 81 | 23 | 23 | 46 | 24 | 17th | 6th | 4th | 10 | 4th | ||||
| AHL total | 143 | 56 | 59 | 115 | 30th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 6th | ||||
| NHL overall | 51 | 6th | 11 | 17th | 10 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
International
Represented Latvia at:
| year | team | event | result | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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| 2014 | Latvia | U18 World Championship Div. IA | 1st place | 5 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2015 | Latvia | U20 World Cup Div. IA | 3rd place | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4th | |
| 2015 | Latvia | U18 World Cup | 9th place | 6th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 2 | |
| 2016 | Latvia | U20 World Cup Div. IA | 1st place | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | |
| 2017 | Latvia | U20 World Cup | 10th place | 6th | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | |
| 2018 | Latvia | WM | 8th place | 8th | 4th | 2 | 6th | 0 | |
| 2019 | Latvia | WM | 10th place | 7th | 1 | 8th | 9 | 0 | |
| Juniors overall | 27 | 6th | 8th | 14th | 26th | ||||
| Men overall | 15th | 5 | 10 | 15th | 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
- ^ Ottawa Senators trade Erik Karlsson to San Jose Sharks. sportsnet.ca, September 13, 2018, accessed on September 13, 2018 .
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| SURNAME | Balcers, Rūdolfs |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Balcers, Rudolfs |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Latvian ice hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1997 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liepāja , Latvia |