Rihards Marenis

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Rihards Marenis
Born (1993-04-18) 18 April 1993 (age 31)
Riga, Latvia
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 201 lb (91 kg; 14 st 5 lb)
Position Forward
Shoots Left
Allsv team
Former teams
Modo Hockey
Dinamo Riga
HC Vita Hästen
National teamFlag of Latvia.svg  Latvia
NHL draft Undrafted
Playing career 2016present

Rihards Marenis (born 18 April 1993) is a Latvian professional ice hockey player currently playing with Eispiraten Crimmitschau in the DEL 2 and the Latvian national team. He formerly played with Dinamo Riga in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL)

He represented Latvia at the 2019 IIHF World Championship. [1]

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References

  1. "Nosaukts Latvijas nacionālās hokeja izlases sastāvs pēdējām pārbaudes spēlēm ar Šveici". lhf.lv. 30 April 2019.