Arvīds Reķis

Arvīds Rekis ( born January 1, 1979 in Jurmala, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian ice hockey player standing since April 2010 with Dinamo Riga in the Kontinental Hockey League contract.

Career

Rekis began his career in 1995 in the U.S. Junior League United States Hockey League before moving to the 1996/97 season in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League with the Erie Otters. There, the native Latvian stood four -year contract and was at this time to the team internally point best defenders. He scored 146 points scorer in 259 completed games. To Arvīds Rekis the Peoria Rivermen After a brief involvement with the Indianapolis Ice of the Central Hockey League, but that lasted only a few weeks, joined in the summer of 2000, the former farm team of the Worcester IceCats of the American Hockey League and the St. Louis Blues from the National Hockey League, with which he was henceforth active in the East Coast Hockey League.

Since he never got the chance to prove himself in the NHL and beyond only wore the jersey 18 times the Worcester IceCats in the AHL, the links Sagittarius joined the 2003/04 season to Europe. There, the leaders of the Augsburger Panther of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga took him under contract for the defender to 2008 was active. The season 2004 /05 was the only one in which he could reach the play-offs with the Augsburgers. There, however, the Panthers eliminated in the first round of the play-off quarter-finals, in a Best of Seven series with 1:4 defeat against eventual champion German polar bear from Berlin.

After his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2007/08 season, the defensive players opted for a contract offer from the Premier League rivals Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg. There he was given a contract that tied in to the summer of 2009 to the club.

In April 2010 Rekis was obliged Dinamo Riga.

Internationally

For Latvia Rekis took part in the junior level at the U18 Junior C1 Championship in 1995 and the U20 Junior B World Cup 1999. In the senior level, he stood in his country's squad at the World Championships A- 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010 and 2011 and at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and Vancouver 2010.

Statistics

(As of the end of the 2010/11 season )