Viktor Ignatievs

Viktor Ignatievs
Date of birth	April 26, 1970
place of birth	Riga , Latvian SSR
size	192 cm
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1992 , 11th lap, 243rd position San Jose Sharks
Career stations
until 1992	Dinamo Riga
1992-1994	Kansas City Blades
1994-1995	Oklahoma City Blazers
1995-1996	Utah / Denver grizzly
1996-1998	Long Beach Ice Dogs
1998-1999	Pittsburgh Penguins
1999-2000	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2000-2001	Leksands IF
2001-2002	Severstal Cherepovets
2002-2003	HK Spartak Moscow
2004-2008	EHC Linz
2008-2009	Vienna Capitals
2009	HC Bolzano
2009-2010	HYS The Hague

Viktors ignatjevs (* 26. April 1970 in Riga , Latvian SSR ) is a former Latvian Hockey defender . In his career he played eleven games in the National Hockey League for the Pittsburgh Penguins . In the 2016/17 season he worked as an assistant coach at HK Spartak Moscow .

Career

Viktors Ignatjevs began his playing career in the youth team at Dinamo Riga , for whose team he stepped on the ice for the first time in the Soviet ice hockey league in the 1989/90 season . In the summer of 1992 he was selected by the San Jose Sharks at the NHL Entry Draft 1992 in the eleventh round in a total of 243rd place and moved to the Kansas City Blades , the farm team of the Sharks, in the International Hockey League . In the 1995/96 season he won the IHL trophy, the Turner Cup , with the Utah Grizzlies , before moving to the Long Beach Ice Dogs . With the team from Long Beach he reached the final of the Turner Cup a year later, but the Ice Dogs failed because of the Detroit Vipers . In the summer of 1998 he was signed by the Penguins and played eleven games in the NHL before he missed almost the entire season due to a shoulder injury and could only participate in one play-off game.

Since he did not get a new contract for the next season, Ignatjevs accepted a contract offer from the Nürnberg Ice Tigers , for which he completed 60 games in the DEL . After only one year in Nuremberg, he moved to the Swedish first division club Leksands IF . He finally came to Spartak Moscow via the Severstal Tscherepowez and Molot-Prikamje Perm stations , where he spent two seasons. From 2004 to 2008 he was under contract with EHC Linz in the Austrian ice hockey league . At the beginning of the 2008/09 season, the Latvian moved to the Vienna Capitals , in February 2009 to HC Bozen in the Italian league. There he and his new team won the Italian championship . After this success, he ended his playing career and wanted to train the U18 juniors of the GCK Lions.

In September Ignatjevs received an offer from HYS The Hague in the Dutch Eredivisie , which he accepted. In 50 games for his new club, he reached 47 points scorer before he finally ended his career and became assistant coach of Dinamo Riga . At the same time he played as an amateur for HK Ozolnieki / Monarhs in the Latvian ice hockey league between 2010 and 2013 .

From the 2014/15 season Ignatjevs was under contract as Harijs Vītoliņš's assistant coach at HK Dynamo Moscow before he was dismissed in October 2015. In the 2016/17 season he was assistant coach at HK Spartak Moscow .

International

Viktors Ignatjevs has played in several world championships for the Latvian national ice hockey team , including 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2004 and 2005 .

Web links

• Viktors Ignatjevs at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Viktors Ignatjevs at eurohockey.com
• Viktors Ignatjevs at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.gcklions-nachwuchs.ch, sportacentrs.com: Ignatjevs turpmāk trenēs jauniešus Šveicē
2. ↑ esports.lv, Ignatjevs turpmāk trenēs jauniešus Šveicē of August 27, 2009