Position Defence Playing career Role Ice hockey player Weight 90 kg Partner Franciska Lemane | Shoots Right NHL Draft Undrafted Name Arvids Rekis Height 1.80 m Career start 1996 | |
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DEL teamFormer teams Augsburger PantherErie OttersPeoria RivermenWorcester IceCatsAugsburger PantherGrizzly Adams WolfsburgDinamo Riga Current teams Children Lennarts Rekis, Elija Rekis | ||
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Arvīds Reķis (born January 1, 1979 in Jūrmala, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Latvian professional ice hockey defenceman currently playing for the Augsburger Panther in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL).
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Interview with artur kulda and arvids rekis
Playing career
He began his career playing junior level in North America, firstly in the United States Hockey League for the Dubuque Fighting Saints and then the Ontario Hockey League for the Erie Otters where he spent four seasons. In 2000, he joined the Indianapolis Ice of the Central Hockey League for their playoff campaign in which the Ice went on to win the Ray Miron President's Cup. He signed as a free-agent with the St. Louis Blues and was assigned to the ECHL for the Peoria Rivermen and also had a spell in the American Hockey League with the Worcester IceCats. He moved to the DEL in 2003 and remained there until the end of season 2009-10.
He has also represented the Latvia national ice hockey team in numerous Ice Hockey World Championships and the 2006, 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.