Leonīds Tambijevs (born September 26, 1970 in
Riga,
Latvian SSR,
Soviet Union) is a retired
ice hockey left winger, currently the head coach of
HK Riga.
Playing career
Tambijevs began his career with the
Dinamo Riga youth team. As a junior he played with several
Latvian teams. He debuted at the USSR Tier III level with
RASMS-Energo, but soon joined USSR top level team
Leningrad SKA for the 1990/1991 season. He then returned to
Riga where had played until 1995 with ex-USSR league premier level teams
Riga-Stars and
HK Pardaugava.
After the disbanding of Riga premier league teams in 1995, Tambijevs moved abroad and played with
Denmark team
Hvidovre IK. A career highpoint includes a spot with Finnish
SM-liiga at
Rauma Lukko. He then played in
Germany,
Denmark,
Russia,
Switzerland,
Italy, and spent his final season with
EV Zeltweg in Austria
Tambijevs has an extensive
Latvian national ice hockey team career. He made his debut at the first official renewed national teams' game in 1992 and has played at every world championship, Olympic qualifier and Olympic Games for the Latvian team until 2007. On 13 April, 2007 in a Latvian game against
Finland, Tambijevs and
Aleksandrs Semjonovs became the first two players to play 200 games for the Latvia national team. He has played the most games and scored the most points for the national team.
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