Herberts Vasiļjevs

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Vasiļjevs Herbert ( born May 27, 1976 in Riga, Latvian SSR) is a Latvian ice hockey player with German citizenship, which is since the 2005/ 06 season with the Krefeld Penguins of the German Ice Hockey League contract.

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Career

The 1.81 m tall son of KEV young coach Harald Vasiļjevs came in the early 1990s with his father to Germany, where he spent his youth hockey. Of the juniors of the EHC Dortmund, the then 18 -year-old moved to Krefeld, Krefeld Penguins for their pro team in the German Ice Hockey League, he went on the ice from season 1994.

In 48 games of the season 1994/95 Vasiļjevs has already demonstrated his technical and spills talent to the test and scored four goals and nine points scorer. In the play-offs, where the penguins were able to advance to the semifinals, came in 15 games five more points added, in the following period, however, was followed by the bankruptcy of the KEV and Latvian joining in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was one years for the Guelph Storm was on the ice, scoring 34 goals and 67 points in 65 games. The following season, 1996/97 Vasiļjevs signed a contract in the organization of the Florida Panthers, of which it was first used in their farm team, the Port Huron Border Cats of the Colonial Hockey League. He also played in the season for the Knoxville Cherokees of the East Coast Hockey League and the Carolina Monarchs in the American Hockey League, where he was able to achieve 13 goals and 31 points in 54 games. In the summer of 1997, the winger eventually moved to league rivals New Haven Nighthawks and managed here finally the breakthrough. With 36 goals and 66 points in 76 games of Lette 's third best scorer and the top scorer of the team was.

This performance earned Vasiļjevs in the 1998/99 season his first appointment to the NHL team the Panthers one for which he completed five games in the highest North American professional league and then played again in the AHL for the Kentucky Thoroughblades. With 28 goals in 76 games the right shooter was second in the team-internal scorers standings, 48 assists were the top mark of the team and his 76 points made ​​him on par with Steve Guolla top scorer. These good values ​​made ​​other teams on the Latvians attentive, which was finally released in June 1999, together with Gord Murphy, Daniel Tjärnqvist and a sixth- round draft pick in exchange for top goalie Trevor Kidd to the Atlanta Thrashers.

In Thrashers farm team, the Orlando Solar Bears of the International Hockey League Herberts Vasiļjevs could again achieve good values ​​, after which he was appointed to the NHL squad of the franchise from Atlanta with 73 inserts, 25 goals and 60 points. In seven inserts the attacker was able to score his first goal in the best league in the world, in Orlando, he was also in the following season one of the top scorers. 22 goals and 48 points for the Latvians had the next appointment to the NHL squad result, so that he could complete 21 games with the Thrashers and thereby achieve good results with four goals and nine points. Eight goals in twelve inserts during the play-offs, who spent Vasiļjevs after leaving the Thrashers back in Orlando, were top team, though he was not on the ice in four games.

After the treaty of the attacker had expired at the Thrashers, he was taken by the Vancouver Canucks under contract, for which he was able to record 18 more NHL games with 3 goals and 2 assists, before he was sent back to the farm team. With the Manitoba Moose of the AHL Vasiļjevs but did not get along and reached in 69 appearances for his means weak ten goals and 39 points, only the second time in his career minor league level after his rookie season, a negative plus / minus statistics.

Then moved the striker to Amur Khabarovsk in the Russian Super League, where he scored four goals and eleven points in 37 missions, but with the defensive style of play in Russia did not get along and then returned to the DEL, where a contract for the Nuremberg Ice Tigers signed.

Here Vasiļjevs was over long stretches of the season 2004/ 05 to the Topscorern the league. Only a serious injury at the shoulder for a challenge of the hamburger Jacek Płachta on 7 January 2005 threw back the Latvians. At times it was even questionable whether he could ever return once more in the season on the ice, with six games left in the season, however Vasiļjevs made ​​his comeback in the jersey of the Ice Tigers. In the playoffs, however, the attacker could not get his full power and does not prevent despite a goal and three points that the Franks were eliminated in six games against the Adler Mannheim. For the season 2005/ 06 Herbert Vasiļjevs signed a two -year contract with the Krefeld Penguins, where in 1994 he started his career in the highest German professional league.

In the season 2006/ 07 he succeeded in beating the Frankfurt Lions on December 15, 2006, a new record - DEL because the sandal was able to record four goals and four assists in a game. In February 2007, in Krefeld Vasiļjevs contract was extended for three more seasons until 2010, but it contained initially an exit clause for a team of the Russian Super League, which was however not pulled.

Internationally

From 2000 until his naturalization in Germany 2011 Vasiļjevs Herbert was a member of the Latvian national ice hockey team and took these at the Olympic Winter Games in Turin in 2006 and between 2000 and 2008 participated in six World Championships.

Awards and achievements

• 2001 Turner Cup win with the Orlando Solar Bears

Career Stats

Internationally

( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )