ARLINGTON, Va. – The Washington Capitals have hired Arturs Irbe as the organization’utes goaltending coach, vice president and gm George McPhee announced today. Irbe replaces Dave Prior, who recently resigned after 12 years with the club to spend added time with his family.

Irbe, 42, is often a native of Riga, Latvia, and provided as the goaltending coach for the hometown Dinamo Riga last season inside Kontinental Hockey League. He has in addition worked with the Latvian national staff,Adidas Michael Jordan Swingman Women's NBA Chicago Bulls Jersey #23 Black Vibe which he represented in the 2002 and 2006 Olympics.Adidas Michael Jordan Swingman Men's Jersey NBA Chicago Bulls #45 Red Road Irbe is a former teammate of Capitals’ asst coach Dean Evason,air jordan 2 ii shoes as both players were with the San Jose Sharks from 1991-93.

Irbe own is a 13-year NHL veteran and played out for San Jose, Dallas, Vancouver and also Carolina. He played in 568 games in addition to compiled a career record of 218-236-79 while appearing in two NHL All-Star Video games (1994, 1999). His last NHL season was 2003-04, and he completed his NHL career with a Only two.womens air jordan 13 shoes83 goals-against average and an .899 save percentage. Irbe played professionally throughout Europe after he quit the NHL and retired completely after appearing in half a dozen games with Slovakia’s HK Nitra throughout 2006-07.

Irbe is fluent in The english language, Latvian, Russian and also speaks several German. He was selected in the 10th round, 196th over-all, in the 1989 NHL Entry Nfl draft by the Minnesota North Personalities. He spent five years in the San Jose organization and made his NHL come out in the 1991-92 season when he made an appearance in 13 games. Irbe took part in 74 games for the Sharks for the duration of 1993-94 and set an NHL record (given that broken) by playing 5,412 minutes in the regular time. He spent the 1996-97 year with Dallas and the 1997-98 season with Vancouver before joining Carolina for the final six a great deal of his career.

Irbe became a installation in the Carolina net and competed more than 50 games in each of his first a number of seasons with the Hurricanes. They registered career-best marks in GAA (Two.22) and in save percentage (.923) during the 1998-99 season, his initially with Carolina. He played a profession high 77 games through the 2000-01 season and a year later he helped lead Carolina to your Stanley Cup final.