OHL Alumni Central

A few months ago, this Ontario Hockey League grad was featured in our Back to School Mondays post on the Carleton Ravens. With the Ravens being eliminated from the OUA playoffs, Brad Good is taking more than a reading week vacation in Florida. Brad is the latest aquisition of the ECHL’s Florida Everblades.

Good played four seasons as a stay-at-home defenseman in the Ontario Hockey League from 2003-04 to 2006-07, all with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds. Brad scored three goals over the four seasons and topped out in points with 11 in each the 2004-05 and 2005-06 seasons. However, his specialty isn’t scoring goals, it’s preventing them.

In his four years with Carleton, Brad was the team captain in each. During the 2009-10 season, he was voted the Ravens top defenseman as well as the team’s most dedicated player. This year, Good was selected to the OUA’s second all-star team. The team finished third in the ten team Eastern Conference this season and was ranked 10th in the country.

His new team, the Florida Everblades are sitting in fifth place in the eleven team Eastern Conference. Only five points seperate them from ninth place.

Check out the article on the Florida Everblades official website, announcing the signing of Brad Good.

Photo is from a 2009 article from The Charlatan – Carleton’s newspaper. Read article here.

Jaroslav Janus during Slovakia's upset of the USA at the 2009 Under-20 World Juniors.

Recently, we featured the Ontario Hockey League grads currently playing for the ECHL’s Florida Everblades (click link to go to that article). At the time, there were five OHL alumni on the team. A sixth player, Jaroslav Janus, had been sent up to the AHL’s Norfolk Admirals at the time and has since been returned to Florida.

Janus played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2007-08 to 2009-10, all with the Erie Otters. The Slovak goaltender played the bulk of the games for the team in his first two seasons and just a handful in 2009-10 as he spent half the season with Norfolk.

The season before coming to the Ontario Hockey League, Jaroslav played goal for Team Slovakia at the IIHF World Under-18 Tournament in which Slovakia finished fifth. In the 2009 Under-20 Championships, Janus led Slovakia to the Bronze medal game where they bowed out to Russia. Jaroslav was selected to the tournament’s All-Star Team.

Janus was selected in the sixth round of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft by the Tampa Bay Lightning, 162nd overall. He was also taken the same year in the second round of Russia’s KHL Draft by Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, 42nd overall. He has obviously chosen to remain in the Tampa Lightning organization, splitting his time between the AHL’s Admirals and the ECHL’s Everblades.

Check out profile page of Jaroslav Janus at the Florida Everblades official website.

The Florida Everblades sit in second place in the East Coast Hockey League’s South Division and fourth in the Eastern Conference. Helping the team out this season are five Ontario Hockey League alumni. Although the Everblades currently have the top two point getters in the ECHL and four players in the top 20, none of the OHL grads are among them.

Click on each player’s name at the roster page on the Florida Everblades official website to check out their profiles.

Trevor Hendrikx played five seasons with the Peterborough Petes from 2001-02 to 2005-06. Trevor is featured in this previous post at OHL Alumni Central.

Elgin Reid played five seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2003-04 to 2007-08. Reid began his career with the Ottawa 67′s and moved to the Windsor Spitfires midway through the 2006-07 season.

Alex Hutchings played four seasons with the Barrie Colts from 2006-07 to 2009-10, playing a major role in Barrie’s Hamilton Spectator victory as the Ontario Hockey League’s regular season champion in his final season. Hutchings then helped the Colts to the Robertson Cup final before bowing out to the Windsor Spitfires.

Drew Larman played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2002-03 to 2004-05. Larman began his career with the Sarnia Sting and was moved to the London Knights midway through his final season. Drew helped the Knights to a Robertson Cup and Memorial Cup victory in that final season.

Jared Staal played four seasons with the Sudbury Wolves from 2006-07 to 2009-10. Jared hopes to join his three older brothers in the NHL soon.

Yesterday, we posted about OHL grad Chanse Fitzpatrick holding two ECHL single period scoring records. Today, we move on to another Ontario Hockey League alumnus who has his name in the ECHL record books.

Kevin Baker scored 27 of his 57 goals in 2008-09 on the powerplay. This feat ties him with Colin Ward for the most powerplay goals in a single ECHL season. Colin Ward did the same in 1995-96 with Nashville. Kevin Baker did it with the Florida Everblades.

That season, Kevin also led his team and the league in scoring as well as being appointed captain of the American Conference All-star team. He added 45 assists to his 57 goals in just 70 games for 102 points. Unfortunately, the Everblades were upset in the Division Finals after finishing first overall in the ECHL regular season.

Baker played three years in the Ontario Hockey League from 1997-98 to 1999-00, all with the Belleville Bulls. He averaged over a point per game throughout his OHL career and his best season was his second when he put in 44 goals and added 37 assists for 81 points for the Bulls.

Kevin was drafted by the Los Angeles Kings late in the 1999 draft, 193rd overall in the seventh round. After two seasons of pro hockey split between the ECHL and AHL, Baker chose to go the Canadian university route and spend three years with Acadia. He returned to the world of pro hockey in 2006-07 and he has spent most of his time in the ECHL. His past two seasons have been with the Florida Everblades.

Check out Kevin Baker’s profile page on the Florida Everblades official website.

Kevin Baker is also featured in this previous post about the 1998-99 Robertson Cup winning Belleville Bulls.

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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