OHL Alumni Central

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.