Roberts Jekimovs

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Roberts Jekimovs
Date of birth November 11, 1989
place of birth Riga , Latvian SSR
size 180 cm
Weight 90 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
KHL Junior Draft 2009 , 2nd lap, 36th position
Dinamo Riga
Career stations
until 2005 HK Riga 2000
2005-2007 SK Riga 20
2006-2007 Riga / Saga / LB 18
2007-2008 SK LSPA / Riga
2008-2009 Brynäs IF
2009-2010 Dinamo Juniors Riga
2010-2011 Jokipojat
2011-2013 SaiPa Lappeenranta
2013-2014 Ilves Tampere
2014 EC Graz 99ers
2014-2015 Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast
2015 HK Prizma Riga
2015-2016 IC Gentofte
2016-2017 Herning Blue Fox
since 2017 Frederikshavn White Hawks

Roberts Jekimovs (born November 11, 1989 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a Latvian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Frederikshavn White Hawks in the Danish Metal Ligaen since 2017 .

Career

Roberts Jekimovs began his career at HK Riga in 2000 , for whom he played in the Latvian U18 ice hockey league in the 2004/05 season. He then moved to SK Riga 20 , a team that was mainly composed of players from the Latvian U20 selection. He spent the next three years at SK Riga 20 and played in the Latvian ice hockey league . He developed into a dangerous attacker, so that he scored 14 goals and 12 assists in 48 games in the 2006/07 season. In the following season, in which his club played as SK LSPA / Riga due to a new sponsor , Jekimovs even scored 19 goals and 34 assists, making him the top goalscorer and second best scorer of his team.

Roberts Jekimovs in SaiPa jersey (2011)

Due to the performances shown, Jekimovs was included in the U20 squad of Brynäs IF in summer 2008 , for which he completed 45 games in the Superelit , in which he scored ten goals and eleven assists. The Brynäs IF juniors won the Swedish Junior Championship at the end of the season.

During the KHL Junior Draft 2009 Dinamo Riga secured the KHL rights to Jekimovs. He then returned to Latvia in the summer of 2009 and got a contract with Dinamo, but played exclusively for their farm team , the Dinamo Juniors Riga in the Belarusian extra league . In January 2010 he moved to the Finnish second division team Jokipojat . There he was able to convince, especially in the 2010/11 season , when he scored 43 scorer points in 47 games, including 24 goals. For the following season he was committed by SaiPa Lappeenranta from the SM-liiga .

Jekimovs is considered a tech-savvy player with a powerful shot who has yet to improve his defensive play.

In autumn 2014 he did a try-out with the EC Graz 99ers , but did not receive a contract. At the end of December 2014, he then moved to Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast , but only completed two KHL games for this club. He also only played two games for HK Prizma Riga from the Latvian league , before moving to the Danish Metal Ligaen in September 2015 , where he spent one season each with IC Gentofte and the Herning Blue Fox . Since 2017 he has been playing for their league rival Frederikshavn White Hawks .

International

Early in his career, Jekimovs represented his home country in international tournaments. He took part in two U18 and three U20 world championships . He made it to the U18 World Cup in 2006 as well as in the U20 World Cup in 2008 , when he was the second best preparer behind his compatriot Kaspars Daugavi gemeinsamš , together with the French Stéphane Da Costa and the Hungarian Nikandrosz Galanisz , with the respective Latvian junior selection from Division I to the top division.

In 2009 he was a permanent member of the Latvian national team and took part in the 2009 World Cup when he was 19 . Also played for the Latvians at the 2013 World Cup . He also represented his colors in the Olympic qualification for the Winter Games in Sochi 2014 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004-05 HK Riga 2000 U18-LAT 9 9 18th 12 - - - - -
2005-06 SK Riga 20 LAT 6th 3 9 16 - - - - -
2006-07 Riga / Saga / LB 18 U18-LAT 2 2 4th 2 - - - - -
2006-07 SK Riga 20 LAT 48 14th 12 26th 22nd - - - - -
2007-08 SK LSPA / Riga LAT 45 19th 34 53 42 - - - - -
2008-09 Brynäs IF SuperElit 38 10 11 21st 45 7th 0 0 0 2
2009-10 Dinamo Juniors Riga BLR 19th 8th 18th 26th 14th - - - - -
2009-10 Jokipojat Mestis 5 3 3 6th 2 9 3 3 6th 0
2009-10 Jokipojat U20 Jr. A I-divisioona 2 3 3 6th 0 - - - - -
2010-11 Jokipojat Mestis 47 24 19th 43 36 - - - - -
2011-12 Saimaan Pallo Liiga 43 7th 13 20th 33 - - - - -
2012–13 Saimaan Pallo Liiga 54 16 11 27 20th 1 0 0 0 0
2013-14 Tampereen Ilves Liiga 39 5 11 6th 4th - - - - -
2013-14 Lempäälän Kisa Mestis 2 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
2014–15 EC Graz 99ers ÖEHL 8th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
2014–15 Atlant Moskovskaya Oblast KHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2015–16 HK Prizma Riga Latvia 2 3 2 5 4th - - - - -
2015–16 IC Gentofte Denmark 44 20th 24 44 20th - - - - -
2016–17 Herning Blue Fox Denmark 44 21st 18th 39 18th 5 0 1 1 6th

International

Represented Latvia at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2006 Latvia U18 World Championship Div. I. 5 0 2 2 2
2007 Latvia U18 World Cup 6th 0 2 2 4th
2007 Latvia U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 0 1 1 2
2008 Latvia U20 World Cup Div. I. 5 3 5 8th 2
2009 Latvia U20 World Cup 6th 4th 3 7th 0
2009 Latvia WM 4th 0 0 0 4th
2013 Latvia WM 6th 1 0 1 2
Overall Junior World Championships 27 7th 13 20th 10
Men's World Cup overall 10 1 0 1 6th

( 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. ↑ Новичок «Атланта»: Роберт Екимов. atlant-mo.ru, December 24, 2014, accessed May 27, 2015 (Russian).
personal data
SURNAME Jekimovs, Roberts
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Latvian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Riga , Latvian SSR