Shoots Left NHL Draft Undrafted Role Ice hockey player Weight 84 kg Positions Defenseman | National team Latvia Name Rodrigo Lavins Height 1.78 m Career start 1992 | |
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Born August 3, 1974 (age 49)
Riga, Latvian SSR,
Soviet Union ( 1974-08-03 ) KHL team
Former teams Dinamo Riga
RSL
HK Pardaugava Riga
Molot-Prikamye Perm
HC Dynamo Moscow
Metallurg Novokuznetsk
SM-l
Jokerit
Ilves
HPK
SEL
AIK
Brynas IF
Sodertalje SK
DEL
Augsburger Panther | ||
Intervija rodrigo lavi
Rodrigo Laviņš (born August 3, 1974) is a retired Latvian professional ice hockey defenceman.
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Rodrigo Lavinš Trenējās vasarā ar slidām un Hockey Revolution Trenažieriem
Playing career
Laviņš began his career with his hometown team HK Pardaugava Riga. He then moved to North America in 1994, starting with the East Coast Hockey League where he played for the Raleigh IceCaps and the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks. He also had a spell in the Colonial Hockey League with the Muskegon Fury. In 1997, he moved to the International Hockey League with the Las Vegas Thunder. He then moved to the Tacoma Sabercats of the West Coast Hockey League the same season.
Laviņš returned to Europe in 1998, splitting the year in Finland's SM-liiga with Jokerit and Sweden's Elitserien with AIK. He returned to Finland the next season, splitting the year with HPK and Ilves before moving to the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany, suiting up for the Augsburger Panther. Laviņš returned to Russia in 2001 where he spent two seasons, playing for Molot-Prikamye Perm and Dynamo Moscow.
He returned to Latvia in 2003, signing with HK Riga 2000 where he stayed for three seasons. He came back to Sweden in 2005, joining Brynäs IF for two seasons and then split 2007-08 with Södertälje SK and Russian side Metallurg Novokuznetsk.
In the 2008–09 season, he will play for Dinamo Riga in the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League.
International
He was named to the Latvia men's national ice hockey team for competition at the 2014 IIHF World Championship.
