Chris Oddleifson

Chris Oddleifson
Date of birth	September 7, 1950
place of birth	Brandon , Manitoba , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1970 , 1st round, 10th position California Golden Seals
Career stations
1968-1970	Winnipeg Jets
1970-1971	Providence Reds
1971-1972	Oklahoma City Blazers
1972-1974	Boston Bruins Boston Braves
1974-1980	Vancouver Canucks
1980-1981	Dallas Black Hawks
1981-1983	SC Langenthal

Christopher Roy "Chris" Oddleifson (born September 7, 1950 in Brandon , Manitoba ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The center played between 1972 and 1980 over 500 games in the National Hockey League , where he only briefly played for the Boston Bruins and then spent most of his career with the Vancouver Canucks , which he also in the 1976/77 season as captain cited. He then let his active career with SC Langenthal in the Swiss National League B finish.

Career

Chris Oddleifson played in his youth for the Winnipeg Jets in his home province of Manitoba, with whom he participated in the game operations of the Western Canadian Hockey League (WCHL). In the 1969/70 season he led the entire league with 64 assists, while he was only surpassed by Reggie Leach and Greg Polis with 95 points , so that he was considered in the WCHL First All-Star Team . The attacker was then selected in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in tenth position by the California Golden Seals . As a result, he spent his first professional year with the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League (AHL) before the Golden Seals gave him to the Boston Bruins along with Rich LeDuc in November 1971 and Ivan Boldirev received in return . For the time being, however, he ran in the 1971/72 season for the Oklahoma City Blazers in the Central Hockey League (CHL), before he made his debut for the Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL) at the beginning of the 1972/73 season . After six missions there, however, the center returned to the AHL, to the farm team of the Bruins, the Boston Braves .

At the beginning of the 1973/74 season, Oddleifson earned a regular place in the Bruins' NHL squad, but the competition in the attack center was ultimately too great, so that he transferred to the Vancouver Canucks in February 1974 together with Fred O'Donnell and the rights to Mike Walton has been. In exchange, Bobby Schmautz moved to Boston. In Vancouver, the Canadian managed to significantly increase his personal statistics, so he recorded his career best in the 1975/76 season with 62 points from 80 games. In addition, he developed into the leading player of the Canucks, so that he took over the office of team captain from André Boudrias in the 1976/77 season , but passed it on to Don Lever after only one year . In total, the center forward was active in Vancouver for almost eight years before he played his last NHL game in December 1981 and spent the rest of the season with the Dallas Black Hawks in the CHL. He then let his career end between 1981 and 1983 at SC Langenthal in the Swiss National League B and ended his active career as a result. In total, Oddleifson had played 538 NHL games and recorded 293 points scorer. A little later he settled in the greater Vancouver area and worked there in the real estate industry.

Achievements and Awards

• 1970 WCHL First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
1968/69	Winnipeg Jets	WCHL		46	14th	30th	44		118		7th	0	2	2		0
1969/70	Winnipeg Jets	WCHL		59	31	64	95		243		14th	8th	19th	27		90
1970/71	Providence Reds	AHL		66	15th	42	57		95		10	1	4th	5		25th
1971/72	Oklahoma City Blazers	CHL		68	18th	44	62		134		6th	0	2	2		12
1972/73	Boston Braves	AHL		63	12	42	54		127		10	3	6th	9		41
1972/73	Boston Bruins	NHL		6th	0	0	0	-1	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Boston Bruins	NHL		49	10	11	21st	+16	25th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1973/74	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		21st	3	5	8th	± 0	19th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		60	16	35	51	+18	54		5	0	3	3	-3	2
1975/76	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		80	16	46	62	+15	88		2	1	2	3	+1	0
1976/77	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		80	14th	26th	40	-18	81		-	-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		78	17th	22nd	39	-21	64		-	-	-	-	-	-
1978/79	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		67	11	26th	37	-16	51		3	0	1	1	-4	2
1979/80	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		75	8th	20th	28	–9	76		4th	0	0	0	-2	4th
1980/81	Dallas Black Hawks	CHL		46	12	36	48		30th		5	0	3	3		0
1980/81	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		8th	0	0	0	-1	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
1981-1983	SC Langenthal	NLB		no statistics available
WCHL overall				105	45	94	139		361	21st	8th	21st	29		90
CHL total				114	30th	80	110		164	11	0	5	5		12
AHL total				129	27	84	111		222	20th	4th	10	14th		66
NHL overall				524	95	191	286	-17	464	14th	1	6th	7th	-8th	8th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Chris Oddleifson in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Chris Oddleifson at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Chris Oddleifson at legendsofhockey.net (English)