Igors Pavlovs (born 1 January 1965 in

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, Russian SFSR,

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) is retired professional Latvian

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player. During his career he played for

Dinamo Riga 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 ...

and later for various hockey teams in Germany. He also represented

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at international level.

Coaching career

After retiring as player Pavlovs became the coach of

Krefeld Pinguine The Krefeld Pinguine (Krefeld Penguins) are an ice hockey team in the DEL2. Their home ice is in Krefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany at the König Palast. Founded first in 1936 by Willi Münstermann, the pro team became a limited liability ...

until he left on 29 April 2009, to join

Kölner Haie The Kölner Haie (English: ''Cologne Sharks'') are an ice hockey club based in Cologne, Germany that plays in the professional Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The team was one of the founding members of the DEL. The ''Kölner Haie'' play their hom ...

who released him on 2 December 2009. In 2010-11 season he became assistant coach for Sibir 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 ...

. In October 2010, Pavlovs was named head coach of

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after Milos Rziga was fired due to a poor start to the season. In that December, after suffering a serious illness, and the team results not improving, Pavlovs was released from his post and named team scout. In February, 2011, Pavlovs became head coach of

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Coaching Clubs

* 2001-2002: Revier Löwen Oberhausen (Assistant Coach) * 2002-2005:

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(Assistant Coach) * 2005-2007:

(Head Coach) * 2007-2008: EV Regensburg * 2008-2009:

* 2009:

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on www.rundschau-online.de * 2010:

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References

External links

Eurohockey Profile

* ttp://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=55710 Hockey DB Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavlov, Igor Latvian ice hockey players German ice hockey forwards 1965 births Living people Soviet emigrants to Latvia German people of Russian descent Dinamo Riga players Latvian ice hockey coaches Latvian sports coaches Latvian sportspeople