Kaspars Daugaviņš

Kaspars Daugaviņš
Daugaviņš in 2012
Born	(1988-05-18) May 18, 1988 Riga, Latvia
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Weight	220 lb (100 kg; 15 st 10 lb)
Position	Left wing
Shoots	Left
KHL team Former teams	HC Vityaz Ottawa Senators Dinamo Riga Boston Bruins Genève-Servette HC Dynamo Moscow Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod Spartak Moscow
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 HC Vityaz of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). Daugaviņš has played professionally in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Ottawa Senators and Boston Bruins. He was selected by the Senators 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.

Junior

After being drafted by the Ottawa Senators at the 2006 NHL Entry Draft, Daugaviņš moved from Latvia, where he spent the 2005–06 season with HK Riga 2000 of the LHL, and joined the Toronto St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) after he was drafted with the third overall pick in the 2006 CHL Import Draft.

In his first season with the Majors in 2006–07, Daugaviņš scored 18 goals and 60 points in 61 games, finishing second in team scoring. He scored his first OHL goal against Andrew Perugini of the Barrie Colts in his first OHL game. The Majors struggled as a team, however, and failed to qualify for the post-season.

Before the 2007–08 season, the Majors relocated to Mississauga, Ontario. Daugaviņš had a breakout season, leading Mississauga with 40 goals and 74 points, helping the club reach the playoffs. In four playoff games, Daugaviņš had two goals and three points as Mississauga were ultimately swept by the Niagara IceDogs in the first round.

Daugaviņš spent the second half of the 2008–09 with the Majors after spending the first part of the season with the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League (AHL), the top minor league affiliate of the Ottawa Senators. In 30 games with Mississauga, Daugaviņš had 11 goals and 28 points, helping the team to the post-season for the second straight season. In 11 playoff games, Daugaviņš had two goals and nine points as Mississauga fell to the Brampton Battalion in the Eastern Conference Finals.

Professional

After the Majors failed to qualify for the playoffs in the 2006–07 season, the Ottawa Senators assigned Daugaviņš to the Binghamton Senators to finish the 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.

In 2007–08, Daugaviņš appeared in three games with Binghamton, posting one assist after he joined the team after the Mississauga St. Michael's Majors were eliminated from the OHL playoffs.

Daugaviņš spent the first half of the 2008–09 season with Binghamton, playing in 23 games, scoring two goals and three points, before being sent back to the Majors to finish the hockey season. After the season, Daugaviņš was selected by Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) in the 2009 KHL Junior Draft.

He spent the 2009–10 with Binghamton, scoring 21 goals and 46 points in 72 games as the team club failed to reach the playoffs. Daugaviņš also made his NHL debut onn 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.

Daugaviņš returned to the AHL for the 2010–11 season, scoring 19 goals and 54 points in 74 games to finish fourth in team scoring, and helping Binghamton to the playoffs. In 23 playoff games, Daugaviņš had 10 goals and 20 points as Binghamton won the 2011 Calder Cup, defeating the Houston Aeros in six games in the Finals.

Daugaviņš scored his first ever 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.

As the 2012–13 NHL lockout began, Daugaviņš signed with his hometown Dinamo Riga of the KHL, the team he had spent the summer of 2012 training with. According to KHL regulations, his contract included a "get-out" clause which allowed him to return to the NHL once the lockout was resolved in January 2013. Though he was a healthy scratch for Ottawa's first three games of the shortened season, he replaced the injured Guillaume Latendresse in the Senators' lineup in a 6–4 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning on January 25, 2013.

Daugaviņš was placed on waivers by Ottawa on March 26, 2013, and was subsequently claimed by the Boston Bruins on March 27, 2013.

After his fifth season in the KHL and completing his third season with Torpedo Nizhny Novogorod 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.

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

International play

Daugaviņš represents Latvia at international hockey events. In 2004, Daugaviņš played for Latvia at the World U18 Championships as a 15-year-old, earning two assists in five games as Latvia finished in fourth place. Daugaviņš came back for the 2005 IIHF World U18 Championships, scoring two goals and three points in helping the Latvians to a second-place finish in the Division I Group B tournament. At the 2006 IIHF World U18 Championships, Daugaviņš had five goals and nine points in five games, helping Latvia finish with a perfect 5–0–0 record and a first-place finish in the Division I Group B tournament held in his home city of Riga.

Daugaviņš participated with Latvia at the 2007 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships as an 18-year-old, where he had three goals and ten points in five games, as Latvia finished in second place in the Division I Group A tournament held in Odense, Denmark. At the 2007 IIHF World Championship held in Moscow, Daugaviņš had three goals and six points in six games as Latvia finished in 13th place.

In 2008, Daugaviņš played at the 2008 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, where he had two goals and 10 points in five games, helping Latvia win the Division I Group B tournament in Riga. He once again represented Latvia at the 2008 IIHF World Championship held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Quebec City, Quebec, earning no points in six games as Latvia finished in 11th.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Daugaviņš appeared in four games for Latvia, earning no points as the Latvians finished 12th. He also participated at the 2010 IIHF World Championship held in Germany, scoring two goals and three points in six games for the 11th place-finishing Latvians.

Daugaviņš represented Latvia again at the 2012 IIHF World Championship, scoring a goal and two points in a relatively successful tenth-place finish for the country.

Personal life

In 2013 he married Santa Seile at the Roman Catholic Church of Mary Magdalene, whom he met online.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
2005–06	Riga 2000	LHL		45	4	11	15	16		—	—	—	—	—
2006–07	Toronto St. Michael's Majors	OHL		61	18	42	60	64		—	—	—	—	—
2006–07	Binghamton Senators	AHL		11	2	0	2	7		—	—	—	—	—
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
NHL totals				91	6	9	15	21		7	0	0	0	2
KHL totals				363	95	130	225	208		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	WJC18-D1		5	5	4	9	20
2006	Latvia	WJC		6	0	2	2	4
2006	Latvia	WC		3	0	1	1	2
2007	Latvia	WC		6	3	3	6	0
2008	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	OQ		3	2	3	5	2
2017	Latvia	WC		7	1	2	3	2
Junior totals				26	9	17	26	54
Senior totals				67	18	21	39	62

Awards and honours

Award	Year
AHL
Calder Cup (Binghamton Senators)	2011

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com, or Eliteprospects.com, or Eurohockey.com, or Hockey-Reference.com, or The Internet Hockey Database