Igors Pavlovs (born 1 January 1965 in

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, Russian SFSR,

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) is a retired professional Latvian

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player. During his career he played for

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and later for various hockey teams in Germany. He also represented

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at an international level.

Coaching career

After retiring as player Pavlovs became the coach of

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until he left on 29 April 2009, to join

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who released him on 2 December 2009. In 2010-11 season he became an assistant coach for Sibir of

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. In October 2010, Pavlovs was named head coach of Spartak Moscow after Milos Rziga was fired due to a poor start to the season. In December, after suffering a serious illness, and the team results not improving, Pavlovs was released from his post and named team scout. In February, 2011, Pavlovs became head coach of

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Coaching Clubs

* 2001-2002: Revier Löwen Oberhausen (assistant coach) * 2002-2005: REV Bremerhaven (assistant coach) * 2005-2007: REV Bremerhaven (head coach) * 2007-2008: EV Regensburg * 2008-2009:

* 2009:

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References

External links

Eurohockey Profile

* ttp://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=55710 Hockey DB Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Pavlov, Igor Latvian ice hockey forwards German ice hockey forwards 1965 births Living people Soviet emigrants to Latvia German people of Russian descent Dinamo Riga players Latvian ice hockey coaches Soviet ice hockey forwards Latvian emigrants to Germany Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland German ice hockey coaches Latvian expatriate ice hockey players in Germany Latvian expatriate ice hockey players in the Czech Republic EHC Freiburg players HC Vítkovice players EV Landsberg players Naturalized citizens of Germany