Herberts Vasiļjevs

Herberts Vasiļjevs
Born May 23, 1976 (1976-05-23) (age 35)
Riga, Latvian SSR, URS
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Weight 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb)
Position Right wing
Shoots Right
DEL team
Former teams		 Krefeld Pinguine
Florida Panthers
Atlanta Thrashers
Vancouver Canucks
National team  Latvia
NHL Draft Undrafted
Playing career 1994–present

Herberts Vasiļjevs (born May 23, 1976) is a Latvian ice hockey player who plays as a center and right winger. He currently plays for Krefeld Pinguine of DEL.

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Playing career

Herberts Vasiļjevs is a son of Haralds Vasiļjevs, a well-known Latvian ice hockey player and coach, who coached the Latvian national ice hockey team from 1999 to 2001. He grew up in Latvia but came to Germany in early 1990s when his father became a coach for the junior team of Krefeld Pinguine of DEL (Deustche Eishockey League).

After playing the 1994/95 season for Krefeld Pinguine, Herberts Vasiļjevs moved to North America where he played junior and minor league hockey in North America. He was then signed by Florida Panthers of NHL as a free agent in 1998. Vasiļjevs is one of only three Latvian players who have reached NHL without ever being drafted in an NHL Entry Draft. (The other two were Pēteris Skudra and Raitis Ivanāns.) From 1998 to 2002, Vasiļjevs played 51 NHL games with Florida Panthers, Atlanta Thrashers and Vancouver Canucks, scoring 8 goals and 7 assists. After spending all of 2002–03 with Vancouver Canucks' minor league affiliate, Manitoba Moose of the AHL, Vasiļjevs was not resigned by Canucks. He has played professional hockey in Russian Elite League and DEL since then. Since 2005, he has been with Krefeld Pinguine, the team where he started his professional hockey career 11 years earlier. In the summer of 2010, after long negotiations, Vasiļjevs resigned a new contract with Krefeld up until 2013.[1]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1994–95 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 42 4 5 9 24 15 1 4 5 10
1995–96 Guelph Storm OHL 65 34 33 67 63 16 6 13 19 6
1996–97 Carolina Monarchs AHL 54 13 18 31 30 — — — — —
1996–97 Port Huron Border Cats CoHL 3 3 2 5 4 — — — — —
1997–98 Beast of New Haven AHL 76 36 30 66 60 3 1 0 1 2
1998–99 Florida Panthers NHL 5 0 0 0 2 — — — — —
1998–99 Kentucky Thoroughblades AHL 76 28 48 76 66 12 2 1 3 4
1999–00 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 7 1 0 1 4 — — — — —
1999–00 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 73 25 35 60 60 6 2 2 4 6
2000–01 Orlando Solar Bears IHL 58 22 26 48 32 12 8 3 11 14
2000–01 Atlanta Thrashers NHL 21 4 5 9 14 — — — — —
2001–02 Vancouver Canucks NHL 18 3 2 5 2 — — — — —
2001–02 Manitoba Moose AHL 31 12 14 26 10 — — — — —
2002–03 Manitoba Moose AHL 69 10 29 39 30 14 3 5 8 8
2003–04 Amur Khabarovsk RSL 37 4 7 11 38 — — — — —
2004–05 Nuremberg Ice Tigers DEL 39 15 23 38 40 6 1 2 3 6
2005–06 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 50 24 21 45 67 5 2 3 5 4
2006–07 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 51 30 24 54 78 2 1 2 3 0
2007–08 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 53 24 33 57 54 — — — — —
2008–09 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 52 20 35 55 40 7 3 1 4 2
2009–10 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 51 22 36 58 92 — — — — —
2010–11 Krefeld Pinguine DEL 52 16 33 49 38 8 6 3 9 32
NHL totals 51 8 17 25 52 — — — — —

International

Year Team Comp GP G A Pts PIM
1998 Latvia WC 6 0 2 2 4
2000 Latvia WC 1 0 0 0 4
2004 Latvia WC 7 0 1 1 0
2005 Latvia WC 6 0 0 0 0
2006 Latvia OG 4 1 0 1 4
2006 Latvia WC 6 1 0 1 10
2007 Latvia WC 6 2 3 5 8
2008 Latvia WC 6 2 1 3 10
2009 Latvia WC 7 3 6 9 6
2010 Latvia OG 4 1 1 2 6
2010 Latvia WC 6 0 3 3 8
Senior int'l totals 59 10 17 27 60

References

  1. ^ Didzis Rudmanis (2010-07-06). "Vasiljevs resigns with Krefeld". Latvian Hockey News Report. http://latvianhockey.wordpress.com/2010/07/06/vasiljevs-resigns-with-krefeld/. Retrieved 2010-11-19. 

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