He then spent a year playing in Sweden for Brynäs IF's J20 team in SuperElit before splitting the 2009–10 season with Dinamo-Juniors Riga in the Belarusian Extraleague and for Jokipojat of Mestis in Finland.

On April 17, 2013, he joined Ilves but was not able to recapture the same level of form he achieved while at SaiPa, scoring just 5 goals and 6 assists in 39 games and was briefly loaned out to Mestis club Lempäälän Kisa.

[2] After just 8 games with the 99ers, Jekimovs opted to sign a contract in the Kontinental Hockey League after his rights were traded from Dinamo Riga with Atlant Moscow Oblast on December 24, 2014.

On September 1, 2015, Jekimovs returned to Latvia to sign for Prizma Riga[4] but played just two games before leaving to join Gentofte Stars of the Metal Ligaen in Denmark 14 days later.

[6] Jekimovs made his debut for the Latvia men's national ice hockey team in 2009 and was a member of their 2009 IIHF World Championship squad, going pointless in four games.