Oliver Lauridsen

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Oliver Lauridsen
Born (1989-03-24) March 24, 1989 (age 35)
Gentofte, Denmark
Height 6 ft 6 in (198 cm)
Weight 229 lb (104 kg; 16 st 5 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Left
KHL team
Former teams
Jokerit
Philadelphia Flyers
Frölunda HC
National team  Denmark
NHL Draft 196th overall, 2009
Philadelphia Flyers
Playing career 2011–present

Oliver Holton Lauridsen (born March 24, 1989) is a Danish professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for Jokerit of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). He previously played for the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He is the older brother to Markus, who plays in Sweden with Leksands IF.

Playing career

Lauridsen hails from Gentofte, Denmark, where he started playing ice hockey in the youth ranks of IC Gentofte. He moved to Sweden in 2005 to join Rögle BK before heading to Linköping HC one year later. He played for both clubs at the youth level. In 2008, Lauridsen enrolled at St. Cloud State University.[1]

He was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers 196th overall in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and signed a two-year entry-level contract with the Flyers on March 15, 2011 after his third season of college hockey at St. Cloud State.[2][3]

On March 29, 2013, after spending one season with the Adirondack Phantoms he was called up to replace the injured Braydon Coburn.[4] He debuted the next day in a game against the Boston Bruins.[5] A month later, Lauridsen scored his first NHL goal after Boston defenseman Zdeno Chára's attempt to clear the puck deep in his own zone managed to slip past Boston goaltender Anton Khudobin and into the net.[6] Lauridsen was credited with the goal since he was the last Flyers player to have touched the puck and it proved to be the game-winning goal.[6] Two days later he scored the game-winner again, this time via a slapshot that eluded New York Islanders goaltender Kevin Poulin.[7] During his time in North America, he played a total of 16 NHL contests for the Flyers[8] and 264 games in the American Hockey League for the Adirondack Phantoms and Lehigh Valley Phantoms.[9]

On July 13, 2015, Lauridsen signed with Frölunda HC of the Swedish Hockey League[10] and helped the team win the Swedish national championship and the Champions Hockey League in the 2015-16 season. In April 2016, he penned a deal with Helsinki based KHL team Jokerit.[11]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
2008–09 St. Cloud State Huskies WCHA 28 0 1 1 38
2009–10 St. Cloud State Huskies WCHA 43 6 6 12 54
2010–11 St. Cloud State Huskies WCHA 37 1 8 9 51
2010–11 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 2 0 0 0 30
2011–12 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 65 3 4 7 85
2012–13 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 59 1 5 6 77
2012–13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 15 2 1 3 34
2013–14 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 63 1 10 11 167
2014–15 Lehigh Valley Phantoms AHL 75 4 6 10 152
2014–15 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 1 0 0 0 10
NHL totals 16 2 1 3 44

International

Year Team Event GP G A Pts PIM
2006 Denmark WJC18 D1 5 0 0 0 4
2007 Denmark WJC18 D1 5 1 2 3 16
2007 Denmark WJC D1 5 0 1 1 6
2008 Denmark WJC 6 0 2 2 14
2009 Denmark WJC D1 5 0 0 0 6
2013 Denmark WC 7 0 0 0 6
2014 Denmark WC 7 0 0 0 14
Junior totals 26 1 5 6 46
Senior totals 14 0 0 0 20

References

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