HK Riga 2000 was an
ice hockey
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team based in
Riga
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,
Latvia
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. The team had played in the LHL since it was founded. In 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons the club also iced a team in the
Belarusian Hockey League, and in 2005-06 finished 3rd. HK Riga 2000 was first foreign team to finish in top three of Belarusian Open Championship. The club has also played several years in the
Continental Cup, winning silver in 2005-06 and 2007-08. Before the 2009-2010 KHL season the team was merged into HK
Dinamo/Juniors Rīga, the farm club of
KHL
The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; russian: Континентальная хоккейная лига (КХЛ), Kontinental'naya khokkeynaya liga) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs ba ...
side
Dinamo Rīga
Dinamo Riga ( lv, Rīgas Dinamo) is a professional ice hockey team based in Riga, Latvia. It is a member of the Latvian Hockey Higher League. The club is affiliated with HK Zemgale/LLU.
The club was re-founded on 7 April 2008 as a successor of a ...
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Notable players
Noteworthy Players
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Artūrs Irbe
Artūrs Irbe (born 2 February 1967) is a Latvian professional ice hockey coach and former goaltender. Born during the Soviet era, Irbe played for various Soviet league teams and the Soviet Union national team before moving to North America in 199 ...
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Kārlis Skrastiņš
Kārlis Skrastiņš (July 9, 1974 – September 7, 2011) was a Latvian professional ice hockey player. Skrastiņš was drafted by the Nashville Predators of the National Hockey League in 1998 as a defenceman and spent twelve years in the leag ...
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Sergei Zholtok
Sergei Zholtok, who was also known as Sergejs Žoltoks (December 2, 1972 – November 3, 2004) was a Latvians, Latvian professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), centre who played ten seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston B ...
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Darby Hendrickson
Darby Joseph Hendrickson (born August 28, 1972) is an American former professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), center. He played in the National Hockey League, NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders, Vancouver Canucks, Minnesota ...
Retired numbers
The Rīga 2000 have retired one number.
Awards and trophies
Latvian Hockey Higher League
The Latvian Hockey Higher League ( lv, Latvijas Virslīgas hokeja čempionāts), also known as the Optibet Hockey League ( lv, Optibet hokeja līga) since 2017 due to sponsorship by Optibet, is the top tier league of ice hockey in Latvia currentl ...
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2000–01,
2003–04,
2004–05,
2005–06
References
HK Riga 2000 official web site
2000
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Ice hockey clubs established in 2000
Belarusian Extraleague teams
Latvian Hockey League teams
Defunct ice hockey teams in Latvia
Eastern European Hockey League teams
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