Leonids Beresnevs
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Leonīds Beresņevs (born 6 July 1958) is a Latvian former ice hockey player, who played in defence.
Born in Kirov Oblast he is coach of the Latvian U-20 junior team.
His first term of coaching the Latvian national team was from 1996 till 1999. In the 1996 world championships, when Latvia were playing in division B, they won it and first time were promoted to division A where they were at 7th place in 1997. From that time they have remained in that division.
Beresņevs's second term started in 2004 and ended in 2006. Latvia in 2005 qualified for Torino Olympics where they took last place.
Beresņevs has been coach for almoust all the best Latvian icehockey clubs since 1995. In 1996/1997 his coached Juniors Riga took gold at EEHL. In 2003/2004 Beresņevs was head coach in Russian Hockey Super League team Amur Khabarovsk.
[edit] Career statistics (as a player)
| Regular Season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1985-86 | Dinamo Rīga | Russian Hockey Super League | 19 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1986-87 | Dinamo Rīga | Russian Hockey Super League | 37 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1987-88 | Izhstal Izhevsk | Russian Hockey Super League | 26 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1990-91 | Dinamo Rīga | EEHL Div. B | 43 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 20 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1992-93 | Latvijas Zelts Rīga | Latvian hockey league | 22 | 6 | 35 | 41 | 22 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1993-94 | Latvijas Zelts Rīga | Latvian hockey league | 15 | 6 | 19 | 25 | 20 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1994-95 | NIK's Brih Rīga | Latvian hockey league | 12 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 8 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| 1996-97 | Lido Nafta Rīga | Latvian hockey league | 15 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | ||
| Preceded by Ēvalds Grabovskis |
Latvian national ice hockey team coach 1996 – 1999 |
Succeeded by Haralds Vasiļjevs |
| Preceded by Curt Lindström |
Latvian national ice hockey team coach 2004 – 2006 |
Succeeded by Pjotrs Vorobjovs |
