Viktors Ignatjevs (born April 26, 1970 in
Riga
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,
Soviet Union
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) is a Latvian former
ice hockey
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player who played 11 games in the
National Hockey League
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with the
Pittsburgh Penguins
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. Currently Ignatjevs works as the head coach of
Kunlun Red Star of the
Kontinental Hockey League
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It was considered in ...
. He has a wife Lena and three daughters: Lisa, Kristina, and Sonja. Lisa and Kristina were born in the United States.
Career statistics
Regular season and playoffs
International
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1970 births
Living people
Denver Grizzlies players
Dinamo Riga players
EHC Black Wings Linz players
Latvian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia
HC Spartak Moscow players
HK Ozolnieki/Monarhs players
HYS The Hague players
Ice hockey players at the 2002 Winter Olympics
Kansas City Blades players
Latvian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Latvian ice hockey coaches
Latvian ice hockey defencemen
Latvian sports coaches
Leksands IF players
Long Beach Ice Dogs (IHL) players
Nürnberg Ice Tigers players
Oklahoma City Blazers (1992–2009) players
Olympic ice hockey players for Latvia
Pittsburgh Penguins players
Sacramento River Rats players
San Jose Sharks draft picks
Severstal Cherepovets players
Ice hockey people from Riga
Soviet ice hockey players
Utah Grizzlies (AHL) players
Vienna Capitals players
Latvian inline hockey players
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