Raitis Ivanāns
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Raitis Ivanāns (born January 3, 1979 in Riga, U.S.S.R.) is a Latvian ice hockey forward and enforcer.
At 6'4, 265 pounds, Raitis currently plays for the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. In 1997, he came over to North American and played for the Flint Generals. Since then, he has bounced around minor league hockey, with stops with the Macon Whoopee, Hershey Bears, Baton Rouge Kingfish, Rockford IceHogs, Milwaukee Admirals and Hamilton Bulldogs. In 2005, he made his NHL debut with the Montreal Canadiens, accumulating 9 penalty minutes in 4 games. He got into a fight in his first game, against the Ottawa Senators, against Zdeno Chara, and sustained a broken orbital bone.
On July 13th, 2006, he signed a one-year deal with the Los Angeles Kings. Ivanāns scored his first NHL goal against the Dallas Stars on October 12, 2006.
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