HK Prizma Riga is an ice hockey team in Riga

Riga

Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...

, Latvia

Latvia

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. They have competed in the 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 ....

 since 1998, and played in the Eastern European Hockey League

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...

 from 2001-2003.

History

HK Prizma Riga was founded in 1998 and first took part in the Latvian Hockey League. Between 2001 and 2003 the team played in the B Division of the Eastern European Hockey League. In the 2002-03 season, they played in the Pirma Liga, the second level Latvian league, and finished in third place.

In the 2003-04 season, the club was part of the sports school of Helmut Balderis under the name BHS Prizma/Riga 86, and finished in seventh place. For the 2004-05 season, the club returned to the second league, while the U18 team participated in the Latvian U18 Hockey League.

In the 2008-09 season, the team merged with Hanza Riga, forming HS Riga/Prizma-Hanza. The combined club finished in sixth place in 2008-09.

Notable Players

• Armands Bērziņš
  Armands Berzinš
  Armands Bērziņš is an Latvian professional ice hockey centre currently playing for HPK of the Finnish SM-liiga. He played for Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League...
  
  
• Edijs Brahmanis
  Edijs Brahmanis
  Edijs Brahmanis is a Latvian ice hockey left winger, currently playing for HK Metalurgs Liepaja of the Belarusian Extraleague....
  
  
• Guntis Galviņš
  Guntis Galvinš
  Guntis Galviņš is a Latvian professional ice-hockey player, who currently plays for Dinamo Rīga in the Kontinental Hockey League. He has played for the Latvian national team....
  
  
• Mārtiņš Karsums
  Martins Karsums
  Mārtiņš Karsums is a Latvian professional ice hockey player currently playing as a right winger for Dinamo Riga of the Kontinental Hockey League . Karsums was selected in the second round, 64th overall, in the 2004 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins...
  
  
• Miķelis Rēdlihs
  Mikelis Redlihs
  Miķelis Rēdlihs is a Latvian ice hockey forward, currently playing for Dinamo Riga of Kontinental Hockey League. He has played for Latvian national team in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 World Championships...
  
  
• Kaspars Daugavins
  Kaspars Daugavinš
  Kaspars Daugaviņš is a Latvian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League . He was selected by the Senators in the third round, 91st overall in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft....
  
  
• Arturs Kulda
  Artūrs Kulda
  Artūrs Kulda is a Latvian professional ice hockey player who is currently playing for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League .-Playing career:...