This is a list of
Latvian ice hockey
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players who have played in the
National Hockey League
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(NHL).
Apart from the players listed below, there have been several NHL players of Latvian descent.
Harold Snepsts
Harold John Snepsts (born October 24, 1954) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player who spent 17 seasons in the National Hockey League between 1975 and 1991. He is one of the most popular players in the history of the Vancouver Canuc ...
,
Mike Knuble as well as
Aris Brimanis
Āris Aldis Brīmanis (born March 14, 1972) is a Latvian-American former professional ice hockey defenseman from Shaker Heights, Ohio who played seven seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL).
Playing career
At junior level, Brimanis played f ...
and
Jarrod Skalde
Jarrod Skalde (born February 26, 1971) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and player who is a free agent. He was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario. From august 2022, he is the head coach of slovak ice hockey team Vlci Zilina in Tipos Slovenská hokejová ...
are among such examples.
Players
This is a list of players drafted in the NHL Amateur and Entry Draft. In 1975
Viktor Khatulev became the first Latvian and also the first Soviet hockey player to be drafted.
Red players did not play in the NHL.
There were 3 undrafted Latvian NHL players -
Herberts Vasiļjevs
Herberts Vasiļjevs (born 27 May 1976) is a retired Latvian professional ice hockey center and right winger. He played in 51 NHL contests and spent more than ten years in the German DEL with Krefeld Pinguine. He also represented the Latvian natio ...
,
Pēteris Skudra
Pēteris "Peter" Skudra (born April 24, 1973) is a Latvian former professional ice hockey goaltender and head coach. During a playing career that lasted from 1994 to 2007 he played for several teams in Latvia, Russia and North America. After sta ...
and
Matīss Kivlenieks.
Statistics
Sandis Ozoliņš is the record-holder in all categories, while
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 ...
owned the NHL record for
most consecutive games by a defenceman.
Regular season
Scoring
Goaltenders
Play-offs
Scoring
Goaltenders
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The
green players are those who have played at least one NHL game in 2019/2020 season.
Pos - the player's position;
GP - played games;
G - goals
A - assists;
P - points;
PM - penalty minutes;
Mins - game time;
GA - Goals against;
GAA -
Goals against average
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;
W - L - T - Victory - Loss - Draw;
SO - shutouts;
Saves - repel shots
?;
Save% - repel shots percentage
See also
*
List of Latvians in the Kontinental Hockey League
Latvian players
ice hockey
Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...