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Scott Hotham played four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2001-02 to 2004-05. He began his OHL career with the North Bay Centennials in 2001-02. Hotham followed the team when it moved to Saginaw in 2002-03 and became the Spirit.

Scott’s career with Saginaw was very short-lived as he was traded to the Mississauga IceDogs after just one game. He played the rest of the 2002-03 season with the IceDogs then was traded 10 games into the 2003-04 season to the Barrie Colts, where he would finish out his OHL career.

After four seasons in the Canadian university system with St. Mary’s, Scott has just completed his first season of professional hockey. Hotham played most of the 2009-10 season with the Florida Everblades of the ECHL, but was called up to the AHL’s Rochester Americans for 9 games during the season.

As stated in this article on the official website of the Lillehammer Ishockey Klubb, Scott is on his way to Norway for the 2010-11 season. The story is in Norwegian. What follows is the article translated into English via Google Translate:

Scott Hotham ready L.I.K.!

Lillehammer Ice Hockey Club secured a Thursday night the signature of the Canadian defender Scott Hotham for the season 2010/2011. 25 years old Hotham split last season between Florida Ever Blades in the ECHL and the Rochester Americans of the AHL, and described as a player back with good playmaker skills.
- A very exciting player and a type of back we need, especially since we lost Darrell Hay. Hotham has both strong physical presence, excellent view and great skills as playmaker. There is also a player we’ve had time to consider and which we have received a lot of great feedback on equal concludes coach Thor Nilsen.

As mentioned shared Hotham season 2009/2010 between the ECHL club Florida Ever Blades and the Rochester Americans of the AHL (American Hockey League). In the ECHL, he delivered 38 points in 72 games including playoffs, by 7 goals and 31 assists, while it was 2 points in 9 games (2 goals) in the AHL.

Hotham began his junior career with the Couchiching Terriers in the OPJHL (Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League) where he spent his first season, was voted Rookie of the team. As a 16-year-old, he impressed enough to make their way to the very strong Junior League OHL (Ontario Hockey League) was short.

4 seasons later, Hotham recorded 249 OHL games for four different clubs. The last two seasons he played for the Barrie Colts in his hometown Barrie. Hotham was among other things, to set the record for the Barrie Colts for at least innslupne target rates. season with 171 backward in 2003/2004. But it was the following season, in 2004/2005, Hotham really did put his name in the club’s history books. His 50 points in 62 games (11 goals and 39 assists) is today the 4th highest score by a back in the club’s history. At the same time 39 assists in one season 4 place all-time among the club’s defensemen.

Hotham made his debut as a professional hockey player at the end of the season 2004/2005, when he played two league matches due and 10 playoff games for the Rockford IceHogs in Uhl (United Hockey League). Hotham allowed the further professional career be a bit on hold and went to college CIS League where he played four seasons for Saint Mary’s University while studying in trade. In the last three years he was at the top of the league in points and was also uttatt on various All-Star team in 2009 before he returned to professional hockey and the Florida Ever Blades.

Scott Hotham is the rest of the son of Greg Hotham who can look back in 230 NHL games for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Pittsburgh Penguins in the first half of the 1980s. Hotham sr. was like his son, also a back with good offensive abilities. And while we’re on Hotham family, then new corpse back a younger brother, Andrew Hotham, which follows in big brother’s footsteps and plays for Saint Mary’s in the college league.

View Scott Hotham’s profile page on the AHL’s official website.

View Scott Hotham’s profile page on the Florida Everblades official website.

View Scott Hotham’s profile page on the ECHL’s official website.

Scott Hotham appears in this previous post at OHL Alumni Central.

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As a member of the Canadian National Team, 1998-99.

Patrick DesRochers played four seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 1995-96 to

Team map for the GET-Ligaen.

 1998-99. His first three seasons in the OHL were spent with the Sarnia Sting. In his final season, he was traded to the Kingston Frontenacs eight games into the season.

DesRochers spent the past season, 2009-10, in Norway, playing for Vålerenga Ishockey AS – a team that plays out of Oslo. The team finished first in the regular season, 12 points ahead of the next team, in Norway’s GET-Ligaen. The GET-Ligaen is a nine team league that plays a regular season schedule of 48 games. Patrick played 47 of those 48 games.

His 47 games tied him for first in the league among goaltenders. He led the league in minutes played, wins and goals against average (2.10). DesRochers was second in the league for save percentage with a .917.

Patrick was originally a first round pick of the Phoenix Coyotes in the 1998 NHL draft (14th overall). He did get a taste of the NHL with 11 total games, 9 with the Phoenix Coyotes and 2 with the Carolina Hurricanes. The rest of his North American career was spent in the AHL with the Springfield Falcons, Lowell Lock Monsters and San Antonio Rampage. He aslo put in two games in the ECHL with the Texas Wildcatters.

Check out Patrick DesRochers profile page on the Vålerenga Ishockey AS official website.

Some other related posts that might interest you:

Sarnia Sting alumni playing professional hockey. (Patrick was off the radar when this post was published so he’s not included in the lengthy list of Sting grads active in the hockey world)

Former Knight and Sting, Mathis Olimb, on the roster for Norway at the IIHF Worlds

Show-off your OHL trivia skills before May 31, 2010

Ian MacNeil was an Oshawa General for three years during an Ontario Hockey League career that lasted from 1994-95 to 1996-97.

Ian was originally drafted by the Hartford Whalers, 85th overall in the 1995 NHL draft. He has played two NHL games during his career, with the Philadelphia Flyers during the 2002-03 season when he was called up from their AHL affiliate, Philadelphia Phantoms.

MacNeil spent the past season in Norway where he played for Lorenskog IK. The team finished third in the nine team league. Ian contributed 16 points in 29 games. Currently, MacNeil is not signed on with the team for the 2010-11 season.

In between Oshawa and Lorenskog, Ian has played on ten different teams located in five different countries spread over seven different leagues. His last hockey in North America was a 20 game stint with the AHL’s Toronto Marlies during the 2005-06 season. He has played in the United States, Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland along with Norway.

Ian’s profile page is the only one absent from Lorenskog’s official website. However, the league uses Pointstreak for all their stats and his profile page there can be found here.