OHL Alumni Central

Slovakia will have three OHL grads on the roster for the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Peter Budaj, currently of the Colorado Avalanche, will be between the pipes for the Slovaks. Peter played in the OHL with the St. Michael’s Majors from 1999-00 to 2001-02.

Andrej Sekera is currently a Buffalo Sabre in the National Hockey League. Just 23, Andrej is the youngest player on the Slovak team. Sekera played in the OHL with the Owen Sound Attack from 2004-05 to 2005-06.

Branko Radivojevic is currently in Russia’s KHL with Spartak Moscow. Branko played in the OHL with the Belleville Bulls from 1998-99 to 2000-01. In his final season, he was third in league scoring with 104 points. In his first season, the Bulls won the league championship and were awarded with a trip to the Memorial Cup.

To read posts on other former OHLers on 2010 Olympic teams, click on the country of your choice: Russia, Norway, Latvia, Germany, Czech Republic, Belarus, United States, Canada.

In order to fill the void made available by injuries to Paul Martin and Mike Komisarek, the USA Olympic hockey team has picked up Windsor Spitfire Graduate, Tim Gleason. Read this post to find out what other Ontario Hockey League alumni are on the 2010 USA Olympic team.

Originally drafted by the Ottawa Senators in the first round of the 2001 draft, Gleason spent time with the Los Angeles Kings before moving to his present team, the Carolina Hurricanes, in 2006-07.

Gleason played for the Spitfires from 1999-00 to 2002-03.

Despite the fact that many Russians have played in the OHL in recent years, there is only one OHL grad that will play on Team Russia at the Olympic Games in Vancouver.

Fedor Tyutin was a member of the Guelph Storm for the 2001-02 season. That season, he had 19 goals and 40 assists for 59 points in 53 games. He was drafted 40th overall by the New York Rangers and went on to play 4 seasons for the team before moving on to Columbus in 2008-09, where he remains today.

Check out these other posts of OHL grads going to the Olympics:

Latvia, Norway, Germany, Czech Republic, United States and Canada.

Olimb playing in Germany for Augsburg of the DEL

Mathis Olimb spent only one season in the OHL, split between the London Knights and Sarnia Sting, missing out on the Knights’ Memorial Cup win.

Onward to the DEL in Germany, Mathis did go. He spent two seasons with Augsburg Panthers before switching Vastra Frolunda HC Goteborg of the Swedish Elite League this season.

Mathis finds himself as the only representative of the OHL on Norway’s Olympic Hockey team that will play at the 2010 winter games in Vancouver. At 5’9″ and 165 lbs., he will surely not even be close to the biggest skater on the ice.

The Latvian Olympic Team that will make an appearance at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver will have three OHL alumni on the roster. Click on their names below to open, in a new window, their pages from their current team’s official sites.

Arvids Rekis will be on the blue line for Team Latvia. Arvids played in the OHL for the Erie Otters from 1996-97 to 1999-00. Between 2000-01 and 2002-03, Rekis spent time in the North American minor leagues with Peoria of the ECHL and Worcester of the AHL. In 2003-04, he switched over the Germany’s DEL and has been in the league ever since. Currently, he is with Wolfsburg where he’s in his second season.

Kaspars Daugavins is currently a rookie with the Binghamton Senators, the AHL farm team of the Ottawa Senators. He was picked 91st overall by the Senators in 2006 and played one game with the big team this season, his first and only game in the NHL. Kaspars spent his days in the OHL as a St. Michael’s Major. In 2006-07, the team was still in Toronto and for his last two seasons, 2007-08 and 2008-09, the team was moved to the Hershey Centre in Mississauga.

Herberts Vasiljevs was a Guelph Storm player for one season, 1995-96. He scored 34 goals and was a point per game in his only OHL season. He played a total of 51 NHL games, shared between Florida, Atlanta and Vancouver over six seasons that were mostly spent with teams in the IHL and AHL. He has spent the last 6 seasons in Germany’s DEL and the last 5 of those with Krefeld Pinguine, pretty much maintaining a point per game pace.

Find out what other OHL grads are appearing in the 2010 Olympics:

Czech Republic

Germany

Belarus

Canada

Stay tuned for the rest of the Olympic teams containing OHL alumni.