OHL Alumni Central

Ontario Hockey League grad Pat Kavanagh is going from a team that didn’t make the playoffs last season and has only proceeded to the post season once since 2000-01 to a team that finished third and is a perennial contender.

Pat Kavanagh with the AHL's Manitoba Moose.

Kavanagh will spend 2011-12 with the Vienna Capitals of Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL). The Peterborough Petes alumnus has spent the past four years in Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) with this past season in an Iserlohn Roosters jersey.

Pat played three years in the Ontario Hockey League from 1996-97 to 1998-99, all with the Peterborough Petes. Kavanagh was a second round pick of the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, 50th overall. He has 14 games of regular season NHL experience as well as three games in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He split his NHL time between the Vancouver Canucks and Philadelphia.

Kavanagh began his European odyssey in 2006-07, playing in both Finland and Sweden. From 2007-08 to 2010-11, Pat played in the DEL. His first and last seasons were with the Iserlohn Roosters and in between he played for the Frankfurt Lions and ERC Ingolstadt. In 2007-08, he played a major role in Iserlohn’s only venture into the post season.

This past season, Vienna finished third in the ten team EBEL during the regular season and lost in the semi-finals.

Rafael Rotter played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2005-06 to 2007-08, all with the Guelph Storm. Over his three OHL seasons, Rotter contributed 168 points in the regular season and 25 in the playoffs.

Twice, Rotter played for his native Austria at the IIHF Under-20 World Hockey Championships in B group play, winning a bronze and silver. Over the two tournaments, Rafael contributed 13 points in ten total games. In 2007, he led the tournament in assists and points.

Undrafted by an NHL club, Rotter returned to Austria to play for his hometown Vienna Capitals in Austria’s elite Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. Rafael will enter his fourth year with the club for the 2011-12 season. His first year in the EBEL actually came the year before he played for Guelph. Rotter played 44 games during the 2004-05 season with Red Bull Salzburg.

Rafael appeared on the international stage again this spring as a member of Austria’s team at the World Hockey Championships. The team did not fare well and Rotter contributed just a goal and assist in six games.

Rafael Rotter is under contract by the Vienna Capitals until the end of the 2012-13 season.

Check out Rafael Rotters profile page at the Vienna Capitals official website.

Ontario Hockey League grad Marcel Rodman has appeared at nine IIHF World Championships playing for his home country, Slovenia. Considering this his tenth season since leaving the OHL, you could call him Mister Slovenia. Rodman also represented Slovenia three times at the junior level.

Marcel Rodman played two seasons in the Ontario Hockey League, 1999-00 and 2000-01, both with the Peterborough Petes. In his second season, his 36 goals and 71 points were both team leading numbers.

Rodman was picked in the ninth round of the 2001 NHL draft by the Boston Bruins, 282nd overall. Marcel never played a game in North America after graduating from the Ontario Hockey League and has since played in Germany, Slovenia and Austria.

Rodman is currently playing for the Vienna Capitals of Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL). 2010-11 will be his third season with the club and second consecutive. He is joined on the team by his brother, David, who is also a product of the Canadian Hockey League. David played two seasons in the QMJHL.

Marcel has twice led his team in scoring in the EBEL. The first time was in 2002-03 with the Graz 99ers when he scored 22 goals and added 25 assists for 47 points in 44 games. the second was 2008-09 with HK Jesenice (his hometown team from Slovenia that plays in the EBEL) when his 21 goals and 36 assists for 57 points in 53 games led the team.

Rodman has maintained better than a point per game pace during his career in the EBEL with 276 points in 263 games as of the end of the 2009-10 season.

Check out Marcel Rodman’s profile page on the Vienna Capitals official website.

This video is a just a short one of Marcel Rodman scoring a goal on a shootout while playing for HK Jesenice.

Jeremy Rebek played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 1993-94 to 1995-96 with the Owen Sound Platers. Rebek’s history as an offensive defenseman took root in his final season with the Platers when he contributed 69 points in 64 games with an additional 10 points in 6 playoff games. That season, Jeremy finished third in points on the Platers.

Four times in his professional hockey career, Jeremy produced over a point a game as a blueliner, twice with the Missouri River Otters of the United Hockey League and twice with Klagenfurt of Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga.

After graduating from the Ontario Hockey League, Rebek spent a mixed year between Laurentian University and teams in the German Oberliga and Austrian Bundesliga. 1997-98 found him back in North America playing in the ECHL with the Toledo Storm. Until the end of 2002-03, Jeremy spent time on several North American teams in the ECHL, UHL, IHL and AHL.

With the Missouri River Otters, Rebek was a first team all-star in 1999-00 and 2000-01 and was voted Defenseman of the Year in 2000-01. As Defenseman of the Year, Jeremy put in his best offensive season of his career with 89 points on 26 goals and 63 assists in 68 games.

In 2003-04, Rebek shifted continents and began playing in Austria. Jeremy has spent the past seven seasons in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga and has gained Austrian citizenship enabling him to represent Austria at IIHF international events. Rebek spent his first three seasons with the Graz 99ers, the following two with AC Klagenfurt and the latest two seasons with EC Salzburg Red Bulls. Jeremy enters the 2010-11 season as a member of the Vienna Capitals.

With Klagenfurt in 2007-08, Jeremy was the highest point-getter among defensemen. This past season, he was part of Salzburg’s championship team.

Rebek has represented Austria four times at the IIHF World Championships, 2006 to 2009. Austria competed in the Division I which is a level lower than that which Canada, USA, Russian and Sweden, etc. compete in. In 2006 and 2008, Austria won the gold medal. Both those tournaments saw Jeremy as the player with the best +/- and in 2006 he was voted the tournament’s best defenseman.

Check out Jeremy Rebek’s profile page on the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga’s official website.