Name Travis Oleksuk Salary 692,500 USD (2014) Playing career Weight 91 kg | NHL Draft Undrafted Height 1.83 m Shoots Left Role Ice hockey player | |
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AHL teamFormer teams Hartford Wolf PackWorcester Sharks Similar People Roy Sommer, Doug Wilson, Peter DeBoer, Todd McLellan, Ron Wilson | ||
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Travis Oleksuk (born February 3, 1989) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward. He is currently playing with HCB South Tyrol of the Austrian Hockey League (EBEL).
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Playing career
Oleksuk attended the University of Minnesota Duluth where he played four seasons (2008-2012) of NCAA college hockey with the Minnesota–Duluth Bulldogs, scoring 45 goals and 70 assists for 155 points, and earning 75 penalty minutes, in 133 games played.
On March 30, 2012, the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League signed Oleksuk as an unrestricted free agent to an entry level contract, and he was assigned to play the 2012–13 season with the Worcester Sharks of the American Hockey League.
After three seasons within the Sharks organization, Oleksuk left as a free agent to sign a one-year AHL contract with the Hartford Wolf Pack, an affiliate of the New York Rangers on September 2, 2015. In the 2015–16 season with the Wolf Pack, Oleksuk appeared in 67 games recording 7 goals and 22 points in securing a regular role amongst the checking line.
As a free agent in the following off-season, Oleksuk opted to pursue a European career, agreeing to a one-year contract with Italian based HCB South Tyrol, who compete in the Austrian EBEL on July 28, 2016.