Aleksandrs Ņiživijs

Aleksandrs Ņiživijs ( born September 16, 1976 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian ice hockey player who plays for Dinamo Riga since 2013 in the Continental Hockey League on the position of the right winger.

Career

Aleksandrs Ņiživijs began his career at HK Pārdaugava Riga, for whom he played until 1995 in the Inter- State Hockey League and the Latvian Hockey League. In 1995 he ran for Torpedo Yaroslavl and remained loyal to the club until 2001. In 1997, he won the Russian championship with torpedo. Other stations in Russia were the HK Dynamo Moscow and Molot Perm - Prikamye before Ņiživijs returned to his homeland in 2003. By 2000 HK Riga 2004 he was Latvian champion. About the IF Björklöven from the Swedish HockeyAllsvenskan he came in 2005 to the Russian second division team Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod, with which he rose to the Super League in 2007. After the founding of the KHL Dinamo Riga participant in April 2008 Aleksandrs Ņiživijs moved to his home.

On September 2, 2008 Ņiživijs scored the first goal of the KHL history against Amur Khabarovsk. Dinamo Riga won this first KHL game 4-2.

In early January, 2013, after Dinamo had no chance of reaching the play-offs, Ņiživijs was delivered to the HC Lev Prague.

Internationally

Early in his career took Ņiživijs his country in international competitions. His first tournament was the Under-18 European Junior Championships in 1993. Additional inserts at junior level followed at the U18 European Junior Championships in 1994 and the U-20 World Championships in 1994 and 1995. Starting in 1995, he played for the men's national team of Latvia in many world championships (1995, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 ). He also participated in the Winter Olympics in 2002 and 2006.

Awards and achievements

  • Best striker in the Under-18 European Junior Championships 1994
  • Russian Champion 1997 with Torpedo Yaroslavl
  • Latvian champion in 2004 with the HK Riga 2000
  • Rise with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in the Super League in 2007

KHL stats

(End of season 2010/11)

1994 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 1995 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships Latvia men's national ice hockey team 1995 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2002 IIHF World Championship 2005 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2006 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2008 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2009 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships 2013–14 KHL season Mikael Tellqvist Georgijs Pujacs Kristaps Sotnieks Marcel Hossa Gints Meija Paul Szczechura Kyle Wilson (ice hockey)
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