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Alexander Kerch is a professional ice hockey
left wing
, currently playing in Latvian hockey league
club DHK Latgale
.
for the 1993–94 season.
The Edmonton Oilers
acquired the third round draft pick of the New York Rangers
(60th overall) along with Roman Oksiuta
in a trade that saw Kevin Lowe
join the Rangers. The Oilers used the pick on Kerch, a 26-year old of the Russian Elite League. Kerch came to North America for the following season, where he spent the majority of the year with the Cape Breton Oilers
of the AHL
. He scored at a better than point-per-game clip in the minors, and went pointless in five games with the Oilers. The following year, Kerch played one game with the Providence Bruins
, before returning to Russia.
between the years 1993-2005, and was part of the team that won the World Championships B-pool in 1996.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
left wing
Winger (sport)
In certain sports, such as football, field hockey, ice hockey, handball, rugby union, lacrosse and rugby league, the term winger is the name of a position. It refers to positions on the extreme left and right sides of the pitch . In American football and Canadian football, the analogous position...
, currently playing in Latvian hockey league
Latvian Hockey League
The Latvian Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league based in Latvia. It is also known in Latvian as Latvijas atklātais čempionāts hokejā ....
club DHK Latgale
DHK Latgale
DHK Latgale is a Latvian hockey league team based in Daugavpils, Latvia.-Current roster:...
.
Career
Kerch enjoyed a lengthy career in European professional leagues, interrupted by a brief stint in North AmericaNorth America
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for the 1993–94 season.
The Edmonton Oilers
Edmonton Oilers
The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League ....
acquired the third round draft pick of the New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
(60th overall) along with Roman Oksiuta
Roman Oksiuta
Roman Nikolaevich Oksiuta is a retired Russian ice hockey player who played in the National Hockey League for the Edmonton Oilers, Vancouver Canucks, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He played a total of 153 regular season games, scoring 46 goals and 41 assists for 87 points...
in a trade that saw Kevin Lowe
Kevin Lowe
Kevin Hugh Lowe is a retired defenceman and coach in the National Hockey League and the current President of Hockey Operations for the Edmonton Oilers. As a defenceman, he played for the Edmonton Oilers and the New York Rangers....
join the Rangers. The Oilers used the pick on Kerch, a 26-year old of the Russian Elite League. Kerch came to North America for the following season, where he spent the majority of the year with the Cape Breton Oilers
Cape Breton Oilers
The Cape Breton Oilers were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team relocated from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1988 and was renamed for Cape Breton Island. Home games were played in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, at Centre 200...
of the AHL
American Hockey League
The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League...
. He scored at a better than point-per-game clip in the minors, and went pointless in five games with the Oilers. The following year, Kerch played one game with the Providence Bruins
Providence Bruins
The Providence Bruins are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, and are the primary development team for the NHL's Boston Bruins. They play in Providence, Rhode Island at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.-History:...
, before returning to Russia.
International
Kerch played internationally for LatviaLatvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...
between the years 1993-2005, and was part of the team that won the World Championships B-pool in 1996.
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Team | League | GP | G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal... |
Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one... |
PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,... |
GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1984–85 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1985–86 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 23 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1986–87 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 26 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1987–88 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 50 | 14 | 4 | 18 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1988–89 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 39 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 41 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 46 | 9 | 11 | 20 | 22 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1990–91 | Dynamo Riga | Soviet | 46 | 16 | 17 | 33 | 46 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1991–92 | Rigas Starts | CIS | 27 | 7 | 9 | 16 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | Pardaugava Riga | IHL International Hockey League (1992–1996) The International Hockey League lasted from 1992 to 1996. It replaced the Soviet Union's Championship league. The last season was in 1995-1996, as the league was replaced replaced by the Russian Superleague the following season.... |
42 | 23 | 14 | 37 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1992–93 | Pardaugava Riga II | LHL Latvian Hockey League The Latvian Hockey League is a professional ice hockey league based in Latvia. It is also known in Latvian as Latvijas atklātais čempionāts hokejā .... |
7 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Edmonton Oilers Edmonton Oilers The Edmonton Oilers are a professional ice hockey team based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division in the Western Conference of the National Hockey League .... |
NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... |
5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 1993–94 AHL season The 1993–94 AHL season was the 58th season of the American Hockey League. Sixteen teams played 80 games each in the schedule. The St. John's Maple Leafs finished first overall in the regular season... |
Cape Breton Oilers Cape Breton Oilers The Cape Breton Oilers were a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. The team relocated from Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1988 and was renamed for Cape Breton Island. Home games were played in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada, at Centre 200... |
AHL American Hockey League The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League... |
57 | 24 | 38 | 62 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994–95 | Pardaugava Riga | IHL | 11 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994–95 | EHC Biel EHC Biel The EHC Biel or HC Bienne is a professional ice hockey Club based in the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland and plays in the National League A.... |
NLA | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||
| 1994–95 1994–95 AHL season The 1994–95 AHL season was the 59th season of the American Hockey League. The All-Star Game is revived, with All-Stars grouped into "Team Canada" and "Team USA." Sixteen teams played 80 games each in the schedule... |
Providence Bruins Providence Bruins The Providence Bruins are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, and are the primary development team for the NHL's Boston Bruins. They play in Providence, Rhode Island at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.-History:... |
AHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 1995–96 | Riga/Alianse | LHL | 29 | 28 | 21 | 49 | 42 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996–97 | EV Landsberg EV Landsberg EV Landsberg is an ice hockey team in Landsberg, Germany. They play in the Oberliga, the third level of ice hockey in Germany. The club was founded in 2000.... |
Ger-2 2nd Bundesliga (ice hockey) The 2nd Eishockey-Bundesliga is the second tier of Ice hockey in Germany. It is organised by the DEB, the German Ice Hockey Federation. In the 2007-08 season, it features 14 teams.- History of the 2nd Ice Hockey Bundesliga :... |
47 | 39 | 52 | 91 | 52 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 0 | ||
| 1997–98 | Tappara Tampere | SM-liiga SM-liiga The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice... |
46 | 14 | 17 | 31 | 57 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1998–99 1998–99 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season The 1998–99 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 5th season of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .Adler Mannheim continued their dominance in German ice-hockey and became the DEL Champion for the third time in row, winning a German title for the fourth time in their history... |
Revierlöwen Oberhausen Revierlöwen Oberhausen Reiverlowen Oberhausen was an ice hockey team in Oberhausen, Germany. They played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga from 1998-2002.The club was founded in 1997, and folded in 2007.-Season-by-season record:... |
DEL | 38 | 10 | 23 | 33 | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1999–00 1999–00 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season The 1999–2000 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 6th season of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga .An agreement was reached between DEL and the 1. Liga. With DEL being the top-level league, it would be known as the DEL - Die 1. Bundesliga, and the 1. Liga as the 2. Bundesliga... |
Revierlöwen Oberhausen | DEL | 67 | 17 | 36 | 53 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2000–01 2000–01 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season The 2000–01 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 7th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga . The Adler Mannheim won the DEL Championship the fourth time in 5 seasons, extending their dominance in German ice hockey. It was also the fifth time in their history they held the... |
Revierlöwen Oberhausen | DEL | 57 | 10 | 16 | 26 | 48 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 2001–02 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season The 2001–02 Deutsche Eishockey Liga season was the 8th season since the founding of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga . The league also introduced a new logo, that will stay in use until the 2011-2012 season.... |
Berlin Capitals | DEL | 56 | 15 | 19 | 34 | 52 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | ||
| 2002–03 | HK Rīga 2000 HK Riga 2000 HK Riga 2000 was a Belarusian Extraliga team based in Riga, Latvia. The team had played in the LHL since it was founded. In 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons the club also iced a team in the Belarusian Hockey League, and in 2005-06 finished 3rd. HK Riga 2000 was first foreign team to finish in top three... |
EEHL Eastern European Hockey League Eastern European Hockey League was a regional ice hockey league which existed from 1995 to 2005.The league was formed in 1995 by Belarus, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, to provide a higher-level competition for teams from those countries. In some years, the league also included teams from Poland... |
8 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 2002–03 Russian Superleague season -Standings:-Playoffs:3rd place: HK Lada Togliatti – HK Awangard Omsk 2:0... |
SKA Saint Petersburg SKA Saint Petersburg SKA Saint Petersburg is a Russian professional ice hockey club that plays in the Kontinental Hockey League. SKA is an abbreviation for "Sports Club of the Army"... |
RSL Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague , commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second best league in the world, after the National Hockey League of North America... |
17 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | HK Rīga 2000 | EEHL | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||