Viktors Ignatjevs
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Viktors Ignatjevs is a former Latvian ice hockey
player who played 11 games in the National Hockey League
with the Pittsburgh Penguins
. Currently Ignatjevs works as the assistant coach in Dinamo Riga
of the Kontinental Hockey League
.He has a wife Lena and three daughters: Lisa (17), Kristina (15), and Sonja (8). Lisa and Kristina were born in the United States.
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...
player who played 11 games in the National Hockey League
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...
with the Pittsburgh Penguins
Pittsburgh Penguins
The Pittsburgh Penguins are a professional ice hockey team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The franchise was founded in 1967 as one of the first expansion teams during the league's original...
. Currently Ignatjevs works as the assistant coach in Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga
Dinamo Riga was an ice hockey club, based in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1946 and disestablished in 1995 as Pārdaugava Rīga.-History of Dinamo Riga:...
of the Kontinental Hockey League
Kontinental Hockey League
The Kontinental Hockey League is an international professional ice hockey league in Eurasia founded in 2008. As of 2009, it is ranked as the strongest hockey league in Europe....
.He has a wife Lena and three daughters: Lisa (17), Kristina (15), and Sonja (8). Lisa and Kristina were born in the United States.