Herberts Vasiļjevs

Herberts Vasiļjevs
Position	Right wing
Shoots	Right
Height Weight	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 185 lb (84 kg)
DEL Team F. Teams	Krefeld Pinguine Florida Panthers Atlanta Thrashers Vancouver Canucks
Born	(1976-05-23)May 23, 1976, Riga, Latvian SSR, URS
NHL Draft	Undrafted
Pro 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.

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.

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

External links

• Herberts Vasiļjevs's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database