HK Liepajas Metalurgs

HK Liepājas Metalurgs

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HK Liepājas Metalurgs is a Belarusian Extraliga team based in Liepāja, Latvia. The club's 2nd team plays in the Latvian Hockey League.

History

Football and Hockey Club 'Liepajas Metalurgs founded in 1997. In the company of the same name board chairman Sergei Zaharjins decided to support the city football. In 1998 the arena of the team - Olimpiskā ledus halle was built. Season set out to create a professional hockey team, which would serve as an example and should aim to be pursued for young hockey players.

During this time, Liepājas Metalurgs six times (1998/99, 1999/00, 2001/02, 2002/03, 2007/2008, 2008/2009) has become the Latvian champions, twice won silver awards (2000/01, 2005/06) and has claimed the third spot three times (2003/04, 2004/05, 2006/07). Six times the team played the Eastern Hockey League, wich was won in 2002. Later, the team appeared in the Belarus Championship.

Ice Hockey Liepaja sporting life over the years has taken his own special place. Set up a pyramid of ice hockey from the smallest, with only learn to skate until meistarkomandai. Furthermore, the new generation of local hockey is already perceptible addition to Latvian youth, after years of samples and hopefully also complement the adult sample. Already, "Liepajas Metalurgs players are summoned to the Latvian valstsvienība.Last year they had Juris Ozols, Vents Feldmanis and Dmitry Zhabotinsky. Last year, the Turin Winter Olympic Games went Vladimir Mamonov, he also participated in the World Championship in Riga. For many seasons the audience with their hit game delight Roman Nikitin, but a true team captain became Eduard Ivanov, who Liepajas Metalurgs is the very first season.

Notable Players

• Māris Jass
• Sergejs Louskins

Current roster

Goaltenders
#		Player	Pos.	Catches	Height	Weight	D.O.B.	Place of Birth
1		Imants Legzda	G	L	186 cm	98 kg	Mar. 4, 1983	Riga, Latvia
31		Māris Jucers	G	L	190 cm	80 kg	Jun. 18, 1987	Priekule, Latvia
61		Dmitrijs Žabotinskis	G	L	170 cm	79 kg	Jan. 19, 1980	Ogre, Latvia

Defensemen
#		Player	Pos.	Catches	Height	Weight	D.O.B.	Place of Birth
3		Vents Feldmanis	D	L	177 cm	83 kg	Mar. 7, 1977	Jūrmala, Latvia
5		Sergei Gubin	D	L	175 cm	80 kg	Jun. 19, 1977	Novosibirsk, Russia
7		Edmunds Kniksts	D	L	185 cm	87 kg	Mar. 10, 1982	Riga, Latvia
8		Sergejs Tjoluškins	D	L	176 cm	80 kg	May 7, 1983	Riga, Latvia
21		Eduards Ivanovs	D	L	187 cm	97 kg	Jan. 22, 1978	Jūrmala, Latvia
29		Aleksejs Bihanovs	D		179 cm	75 kg	Jan. 28, 1984	Riga, Latvia
70		Sergei Olkhovtsev	D	L	184 cm	84 kg	Oct. 19, 1987	Moscow, Russia

Forwards
#		Player	Pos.	Catches	Height	Weight	D.O.B.	Place of Birth
9		Mārcis Zembergs	F	R	185 cm	85 kg	Dec. 3, 1988	Riga, Latvia
15		Māris Grāvītis	F	L	179 cm	87 kg	Mar. 14, 1981	Riga, Latvia
16		Valerijs Fiļimonovs	C	L	177 cm	87 kg	Aug. 17, 1979	Riga, Latvia
17		Edijs Brahmanis	F	R	184 cm	88 kg	Nov. 17, 1983	Riga, Latvia
18		Sergejs Daņilovs	F	R	187 cm	80 kg	Feb. 16, 1989	Madona, Latvia
19		Bruno Zabis	F	L	177 cm	73 kg	Jan. 15, 1991	Liepāja, Latvia
22		Aldis Āboliņš	F	L	184 cm	85 kg	Mar. 6, 1985	Talsi, Latvia
24		Raivis Kurnigins	F	L	183 cm	73 kg	Dec. 13, 1989	Aizkraukle, Latvia
28		Vladimirs Mamonovs	LW	L	176 cm	86 kg	Apr. 22, 1980	Riga, Latvia
32		Juris Ozols	C	L	183 cm	83 kg	Apr. 6, 1977	Riga, Latvia
33		Darius Pliskauskas	C	L	178 cm	88 kg	Sep. 29, 1980	Elektrėnai, Lithuania
49		Oļegs Koreškovs	F	L	186 cm	90 kg	Aug. 16, 1984	Riga, Latvia
55		Jānis Puriņš	F	L	190 cm	96 kg	Jun. 13, 1987	Riga, Latvia
67		Konstantin Mikhailov	F	L	181 cm	79 kg	Feb. 12, 1983	Moscow, Russia
71		Toms Zeltiņš	F		184 cm	75 kg	Aug. 10, 1986	Riga, Latvia
81		Arturs Mickēvičs	F		182 cm	70 kg	Jan. 2, 1991	Talsi, Latvia
87		Gunārs Skvorcovs	F	L	186 cm	86 kg	Jan. 13, 1990	Saldus, Latvia
93		Aleksandr Gorshkov	F	L	186 cm	100 kg	Jan. 23, 1988	Moscow, Russia

Awards

• Latvian hockey league champions - 2000, 2002, 2003 and 2008.
• Eastern European Hockey League champions - 2002.

References

• HK Liepājas Metalurgs official web site