height_ft former_teams weight_lb shoots birth_place team career_end position league height_in birth_date article_title ntl_team career_start
5 rockford hounds icehogs toledo storm greenville grrrowl stockton thunder chicago 174 left talsi , soviet union peterborough phantoms 2007 forward epihl 10 3 july 1978 māris ziediņš
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māris ziediņš

māris ziediņš -lrb- born july 3 , 1978 in talsi , soviet union -rrb- is a latvian ice hockey forward currently playing for the peterborough phantoms of the english premier ice hockey league .
ziediņš spent four years in st. norbert college before turning pro with the rockford icehogs of the united hockey league .
he then went on to have spells in the echl with the toledo storm , greenville grrrowl and the stockton thunder before returning to the uhl with the chicago hounds .
in 2007 , ziediņš moved to the united kingdom and signed with the peterborough phantoms .
in 2008 -- 09 , he scored 34 goals and 45 assists for 79 points in 54 games for the phantoms .
ziediņš represented latvia in the 2005 world ice hockey championship and the 2006 winter olympics .
