Kaspars Daugaviņš
Daugaviņš in 2023
Born (1988-05-18) May 18, 1988
Riga, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union
Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight 220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb)
Position Left wing
Shoots Left
Slovak team
Former teams		 Dukla Michalovce
HK Riga 2000
Prizma/Riga 86
Ottawa Senators
Dinamo Riga
Boston Bruins
Genève-Servette HC
Dynamo Moscow
Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod
Spartak Moscow
Vityaz Podolsk
SC Bern
Iserlohn Roosters
National team  Latvia
NHL Draft 91st overall, 2006
Ottawa Senators
Playing career 2005–present

Kaspars Daugaviņš (born May 18, 1988) is a Latvian professional ice hockey player for Dukla Michalovce of the Slovak Extraliga. Daugaviņš has played professionally in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins. The Senators selected him in the third round, 91st overall, in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing career

As a youth, Daugaviņš played in the 2002 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Riga.[1]

Professional

After the Toronto St. Michael's Majors failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 2006–07 season, the Ottawa Senators assigned Daugaviņš to the Binghamton Senators to finish the 2006–07 AHL season. In 11 games with Binghamton, Daugaviņš had two goals, both coming against the Albany River Rats goaltender Tyler Weiman in a 5–4 Binghamton win. On June 1, 2007, Daugaviņš signed a three-year, entry-level contract with the Ottawa Senators.[2]

He spent the 2009–10 season with Binghamton, scoring 21 goals and 46 points in 72 games as the team failed to reach the playoffs. Daugaviņš also made his NHL debut on January 14, 2010, against the New York Rangers at Madison Square Garden, going pointless in 8:26 of ice time in a 2–0 Ottawa victory.[3]

Daugaviņš scored his first NHL goal on October 30, 2011, beating Jonas Gustavsson of the Toronto Maple Leafs in a 3–2 Ottawa victory. As the 2011–12 season progressed, Daugaviņš became a regular in the Ottawa lineup, playing 65 games and scoring five goals and six assists. In July 2012, he was scheduled for an arbitration hearing with the Senators, but the salary negotiation process was avoided when he agreed with the team to a one-year, one-way deal worth $635,000.[4]

After his fifth season in the KHL and completing his third season with Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod in 2017–18, Daugaviņš left as a free agent to sign a two-year contract with his fourth KHL club, Spartak Moscow, on May 3, 2018.[5]

After two productive seasons with Spartak, Daugaviņš left as a free agent, signing a one-year contract with Vityaz Podolsk on May 3, 2020.[6]

On June 10, 2021, Daugaviņš returned to the National League and signed a two-year deal with SC Bern.[7][8]

He left Bern after just one season with the team, signing with German club, Iserlohn Roosters of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL), on August 8, 2022.[9] In the 2022–23 season with the Roosters, he led the team in scoring with 21 goals and 49 points through 55 regular season games. With Iserlohn missing the playoffs for a second consecutive season, he left the club at the conclusion of his contract on March 10, 2023.[10]

On September 13, 2023, Daugaviņš signed a two-year contract with Dukla Michalovce of the Slovak Extraliga.[11]

International play

Medal record
Representing  Latvia
Ice hockey
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2023 Finland/Latvia

Daugaviņš represented Latvia as its captain at the 2023 IIHF World Championship where he recorded three goals and four assists and won a bronze medal, Latvia's first ever IIHF World Championship medal.[12]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2003–04 HK Riga 2000 EEHL 2 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
2003–04 Prizma/Riga 86 LAT 14 6 6 12 10 2 1 1 2 4
2003–04 HK Riga 2000 LAT U18 22 28 50 — — — — —
2004–05 CSKA–2 Moscow RUS.3 25 0 3 3 4 — — — — —
2005–06 HK Riga 2000 BLR 45 4 11 15 16 4 0 0 0 0
2006–07 Toronto St. Michael's Majors OHL 61 18 42 60 64 — — — — —
2006–07 Binghamton Senators AHL 11 2 0 2 9 — — — — —
2007–08 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 62 40 34 74 42 4 2 1 3 4
2007–08 Binghamton Senators AHL 3 0 1 1 0 — — — — —
2008–09 Mississauga St. Michael's Majors OHL 30 11 17 28 35 11 2 7 9 14
2008–09 Binghamton Senators AHL 23 2 1 3 9 — — — — —
2009–10 Binghamton Senators AHL 72 21 25 46 16 — — — — —
2009–10 Ottawa Senators NHL 1 0 0 0 0 — — — — —
2010–11 Binghamton Senators AHL 73 19 35 54 34 23 10 10 20 8
2011–12 Binghamton Senators AHL 7 4 2 6 0 — — — — —
2011–12 Ottawa Senators NHL 65 5 6 11 12 1 0 0 0 0
2012–13 Dinamo Riga KHL 35 5 9 14 26 — — — — —
2012–13 Ottawa Senators NHL 19 1 2 3 9 — — — — —
2012–13 Boston Bruins NHL 6 0 1 1 0 6 0 0 0 2
2013–14 Genève-Servette HC NLA 44 18 26 44 24 12 5 8 13 2
2014–15 Dynamo Moscow KHL 56 22 15 37 26 11 1 3 4 3
2015–16 Dynamo Moscow KHL 8 1 3 4 2 — — — — —
2015–16 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 44 14 21 35 12 11 3 2 5 25
2016–17 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 47 10 22 32 41 4 1 2 3 2
2017–18 Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod KHL 56 11 16 27 18 4 0 2 2 0
2018–19 Spartak Moscow KHL 58 13 23 36 61 2 0 1 1 0
2019–20 Spartak Moscow KHL 59 19 21 40 22 6 1 3 4 2
2020–21 Vityaz Podolsk KHL 58 17 32 49 38 — — — — —
2021–22 SC Bern NL 34 10 15 25 14 — — — — —
2022–23 Iserlohn Roosters DEL 55 21 28 49 14 — — — — —
NHL totals 91 6 9 15 21 7 0 0 0 2
KHL totals 421 112 162 274 246 38 6 13 19 35

International

Year Team Event   GP G A Pts PIM
2004 Latvia WJC18 D1 5 0 2 2 8
2005 Latvia WJC18 D1 5 2 1 3 18
2006 Latvia WJC 6 0 2 2 4
2006 Latvia WJC18 D1 5 5 4 9 20
2006 Latvia WC 3 0 1 1 2
2007 Latvia WJC D1 5 3 7 10 2
2007 Latvia WC 6 3 3 6 0
2007 Latvia WJC D1 5 2 8 10 4
2008 Latvia WC 6 0 0 0 0
2010 Latvia OG 4 0 0 0 2
2010 Latvia WC 6 2 1 3 0
2012 Latvia WC 7 1 1 2 8
2014 Latvia OG 4 0 2 2 0
2014 Latvia WC 7 2 3 5 42
2015 Latvia WC 7 5 4 9 4
2016 Latvia WC 7 2 2 4 0
2016 Latvia OGQ 3 2 3 5 2
2017 Latvia WC 7 1 2 3 2
2021 Latvia WC 5 0 1 1 4
2021 Latvia OGQ 3 1 1 2 2
2022 Latvia OG 4 0 0 0 2
2023 Latvia WC 10 3 4 7 10
Junior totals 31 12 24 36 56
Senior totals 86 20 25 45 78

Awards and honours

Award Year
AHL
Calder Cup champion 2011

References

  1. ↑ "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved February 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Kaspars Daugavins-player profile". TSN. May 3, 2010. Retrieved May 3, 2010.
  3. ↑ "Senators break scoreless tie late, hand Rangers another shutout". CBS Sports. January 14, 2010. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  4. ↑ "Senators, Daugavins avoid arbitration". Ottawa Sun. July 23, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ "Новый легионер "Спартака"" [New signing in Spartak] (in Russian). spartak.ru. May 3, 2018. Retrieved May 3, 2018.
  6. ↑ ""Витязь" подписал контракт с Каспарсом Даугавиньшем" [Vityaz signed a contract with Kaspars Daugavins] (in Russian). HC Vityaz. May 3, 2020. Retrieved May 3, 2020.
  7. ↑ "Kaspars Daugavins zum SCB". SC Bern (in Swiss High German). June 10, 2021. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  8. ↑ "Kaspars Daugavins returns to Switzerland, signs with SC Bern". www.swisshockeynews.ch. June 10, 2021. Retrieved June 10, 2021.
  9. ↑ "Roosters verpflichten lettischen Nationalspieler Kaspars Daugavins" [Roosters sign Latvian national team player Kaspars Daugavins] (in German). Iserlohn Roosters. August 8, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  10. ↑ "Ergebnisse der Saisonabschlussgespräche" [Results of the end of season talks] (in German). Iserlohn Roosters. March 10, 2023. Retrieved March 10, 2023.
  11. ↑ "Novou posilou Kaspars Daugavins". hkduklamichalovce.sk (in Slovak). September 13, 2023. Retrieved September 30, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Latvia wins historic bronze in OT". IIHF.com. May 28, 2023. Retrieved May 28, 2023.
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