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Travis Scott, The Best OHL Alumni Goalie You Never Heard Of
Filed under GermanyAug 25(Unless you’re a Windsor Spitfires or Oshawa Generals fan…)
Travis as a member of the DEL's Kolner Haie in 2007-08.
The only thing flawed about the career of Ontario Hockey League grad Travis Scott thus far is the single game he played in the National Hockey League. For such a great goaltender, the Los Angeles Kings gave him just one shot at playing in the NHL and he is left with an NHL career Goals Against Average of 7.20 and a save percentage of .700.
Everything else about Scott’s career in professional hockey has been exceptional and he is potentially one of the most under-rated goaltenders to ever come out of the Ontario Hockey League.
Travis played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 1993-94 to 1995-96. His first two seasons were with the Windsor Spitfires and his final season was with the Oshawa Generals. His OHL career was less than stellar, he was not drafted to the NHL and played in the ECHL upon entering the world of professional hockey.
During the 1998-99 season while playing for the Mississippi Sea Wolves of the ECHL, Travis was named Playoff MVP as the team took the Kelly Cup.
From 1999-00 to 2004-05, Scott was a regular in the American Hockey League, playing for the Lowell Lock Monsters, Manchester Monarchs and San Antonio Rampage. His GAA never went above the 2.91 mark and pretty much fell each season he played. His save percentage over his final five seasons in the AHL was consistently above .920. Travis currently sits tied for 12th on the all-time AHL career shutouts list with 23.
In 2005-06, Travis made the move to European hockey and played for Magnitogorsk of the Russian Super League. The RSL is the predecessor to the KHL. His first season was simply amazing as he had eleven shutouts, a GAA of 1.22 and a whopping save percentage of .949 in 43 games. The following season, he backstopped the team to the RSL Championship. He took a short holiday in 2007 to join Team Canada at the Spengler Cup in Davos, Switzerland as Canada captured the gold at the invitational tournament.
He switched over to Austria for the 2008-09 season and played for Klagenfurt of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. He led Klagenfurt to an Austrian Championship while leading the league in GAA and save percentage.
This past season, 2009-10, he continued his winning ways in Germany with the Hannover Scorpions of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. Travis led the league in save percentage and the Scorpions took the DEL crown.
Scott is back with Hannover for the upcoming 2010-11 season. The team shows no sign of stopping and should again be a contender in the German elite league.
Check out Travis Scott’s profile page at the Hannover Scorpions official website.
3 Responses to “Travis Scott, The Best OHL Alumni Goalie You Never Heard Of”
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OHL Alumni Central » Blog Archive » Ontario Hockey League Provides DEL With Top Torhüters said on September 11th, 2010 at 6:04 am
[...] Scott Travis appears in this previous post at OHL Alumni Central. [...]
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I was the team photographer for the San Antonio Rampage when Travis played there. He was a phenomenal goalie and never ceased to supply me with the opportunity to make great photos of him in action. The crowd loved him too. I remember one charity jersey auction where his game-worn sweater fetched about US $5000.00. Simply a super player.
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Tom said on December 3rd, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Thanks for commenting Darren – hopefully Travis will work a deal with another team now that Hannover has let him go…
