Raitis Ivanāns

Position	Left Wing
Shoots	Left
Nickname(s)	Bam Bam
Height Weight	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) 263 lb (119 kg/18 st 11 lb)
NHL Team F. teams	Los Angeles Kings Montreal Canadiens
Pro clubs	Flint Generals Macon Whoopee Tulsa Oilers Pensacola Ice Pilots New Haven Knights Hershey Bears Toledo Storm Baton Rouge Kingfish Rockford IceHogs Milwaukee Admirals Hamilton Bulldogs
Nationality	Latvia
Born	January 3, 1979 (1979-01-03) (age 29), Riga, USSR
NHL Draft	undrafted
Pro career	1997 – present

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Raitis Ivanāns is a Latvian ice hockey forward and enforcer.

Raitis currently plays for the National Hockey League's Los Angeles Kings. In 1997, he came over to North America and played for the Flint Generals. 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, with Zděno Chara, and sustained a broken orbital bone due to a late punch after he was down.^[1]^[2] Ivanans is considered an enforcer.^[3]

On July 13, 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.

On March 18, 2007, he signed his second one-year deal with the Los Angeles Kings-a one-way contract.

[edit] Notes

^ Canadiens get Downey on waivers, from the Sporting News, January 23 2006.
^ From Habsworld.com.
^ Lisa Dillman (2007-11-12). Ivanans has 'Terminator' approach to his return. Los Angeles Times. Retrieved on 2007-12-08. “The left side of his face has been surgically reinforced and then some, with four plates, and that means Kings enforcer Raitis Ivanāns might require a new nickname.”