Mark Olver

Mark Olver
Date of birth	January 1, 1988
place of birth	Burnaby , British Columbia , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	center
number	# 91
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 5th lap, 140th position Colorado Avalanche
Career stations
2005-2007	Omaha Lancers
2007-2010	Northern Michigan University
2010-2014	Colorado Avalanche Lake Erie Monsters
2014-2015	HK Sochi
2015	Kloten Flyers
2015-2016	Polar bears Berlin
2016-2017	Tucson Roadrunners
2017	Bakersfield Condors
since 2017	Polar bears Berlin

Mark Olver (born January 1, 1988 in Burnaby , British Columbia ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Eisbären Berlin from the German Ice Hockey League since July 2017 . His older brother Darin Olver is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Career as a junior player

Mark Olver completed two seasons with the Omaha Lancers in the United States Hockey League . In his second season with the Lancers, the Canadian led the team in goals, assist and points scoring , after which he was named Omaha's Striker of the Year and Omaha's Most Valuable Player . After graduating from Millard North High School , the player attended Northern Michigan University and played for their team, Northern Michigan Wildcats, in the university and college sports league Central Collegiate Hockey Association . In his first season in the CCHA, Olver was the most successful rookie in the league with 21 goals scored and the best scorer of the Wildcats with 38 points, after which he was nominated to the CCHA All-Rookie Team at the end of this season.

In the 2008 NHL Entry Draft , Olver was selected in the fifth round at a total of 140th position by the Colorado Avalanche . The striker was also available in the Entry Drafts 2006 and 2007 , but was not selected by any team due to his relatively small height. The center completed two more seasons with the Wildcats and was the Wildcats' most successful points collector in both seasons. In his final CCHA season, he was also named to the CCHA First All-Star Team and the NCAA West First All-American Team, and was one of the finalists for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award .

Career as a professional player

On March 30, 2010, Mark Olver signed a two-year contract with the Colorado Avalanche. The player then completed six more games for Colorado's farm team , the Lake Erie Monsters , in the American Hockey League and scored two goals. The following season, the striker played 18 games for Colorado in the National Hockey League , scoring nine points, but spent most of the season with the Monsters in the AHL. In the pre -season preparation for the 2011/12 NHL season , Mark Olver suffered a head injury that prevented him from playing for several months. The center played its first games of the season for the Lake Erie Monsters in January 2012. On February 16, he was appointed to the Avalanche NHL squad, where he was able to earn a regular place for the rest of the season. He could not defend this in the following season and completed about half of the games in the AHL and NHL. At the beginning of the 2013/14 season he was again not in the NHL squad and then came back to the Monsters in the AHL.

In May 2014 he decided to move to Europe and was signed by the newly founded HK Sochi from the Continental Hockey League . Due to an injury, he only played one KHL game for the club. In July 2015 Olver left the HC Sochi and signed a one-year contract with the Kloten Flyers of the National League A . After only eight games for the Swiss , he moved to the German ice hockey league for the Eisbären Berlin , where he played in a team with his brother Darin for the first time. After a year in the German capital, the striker finally returned to North America and joined the Tucson Roadrunners from the AHL. Olver spent a season there and on loan from league rivals Bakersfield Condors before returning to the DEL in the summer of 2017 to the Eisbären, who signed him as a replacement for Kyle Wilson .

Personal

His maternal grandparents immigrated to Canada from Germany.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 CCHA all rookie team
• 2010 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 2010 NCAA West First All-American team
• 2011 AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2005-06	Omaha Lancers	USHL		59	5	20th	25th	+3	72		2	0	0	0	± 0	0
2006-07	Omaha Lancers	USHL		57	29	35	64	+27	84		5	3	3	6th	+2	18th
2007-08	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		39	21st	17th	38		59
2008-09	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		40	16	19th	35		84
2009-10	Northern Michigan University	CCHA		40	19th	30th	49		48
2009-10	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		6th	2	0	2	-4	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2010-11	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		58	23	17th	40	-2	79		7th	2	2	4th	-1	4th
2010-11	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		18th	2	7th	9	-2	18th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011-12	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		15th	2	7th	9	+2	8th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011-12	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		24	4th	3	7th	± 0	15th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13	Lake Erie Monsters	AHL		36	6th	16	22nd	-4	34		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012–13	Colorado Avalanche	NHL		32	4th	2	6th	-5	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				116	34	55	89	+30	156		7th	3	3	6th	+2	18th
CCHA total				119	56	66	122		191
AHL total				115	33	40	73	-8th	125		7th	2	2	4th	-1	4th
NHL overall				74	10	12	22nd	–7	39		-	-	-	-	-	-

( 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

• Mark Olver at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Mark Olver at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Mark Olver at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Mark Olver changes to the Eisbären Berlin with immediate effect. Eisbären Berlin , October 28, 2015, accessed on October 28, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Aaron Lopez: Prospect Q&A: Mark Olver. Colorado Avalanche , July 23, 2010, accessed April 16, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Trevor Pellerite: Olver helps put NMU back on the map. thenorthwindonline.com, March 25, 2010, accessed April 16, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Avalanche Signs Olver. Colorado Avalanche , March 30, 2010, accessed April 16, 2012 . 
5. ↑ Mike Chambers : Avs' rookie Mark Olver plays with a fearless style. The Denver Post , March 14, 2012, accessed April 16, 2012 . 
6. ↑ avalanche.nhl.com: "Avalanche Reduces Roster to 30" (English, September 23, 2013, accessed on October 22, 2013)
7. ↑ Трансферные новости. In: khl.ru. May 27, 2014, accessed September 25, 2015 . 
8. ↑ Two new foreigners for the Kloten Flyers . Kloten Flyers . July 17, 2015. Archived from the original on July 20, 2015. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 17, 2015. 
9. ↑ The polar bears bring back Mark Olver , Berliner Morgenpost , July 11, 2017, accessed on April 6, 2018
10. ↑ Dajana Rubert: Darin and Mark Olver: Christmas with the family, a dream comes true in Berlin | Berliner-Kurier.de. In: Berliner-Kurier.de. Retrieved on March 26, 2016 (German).