Cam Severson Explained

Position:Left wing
Shoots:Left
Height Ft:6
Height In:2
Weight Lb:229
Birth Date:January 15, 1978
Birth Place:Norquay, Saskatchewan, Canada
Career Start:1999
Career End:2010
Draft:192nd overall
Draft Year:1997
Draft Team:San Jose Sharks
Played For:Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
Columbus Blue Jackets

Cam Severson (born August 15, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played parts of three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim and Columbus Blue Jackets.

Playing career

Severson was drafted in the eighth round, 192nd overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1997 NHL entry draft.

After playing five full seasons in the Western Hockey League and part of a sixth, Severson joined the Central Hockey League's Oklahoma City Blazers during the 1998–99 season. He spent the 1999–2000 season in the East Coast Hockey League and part of the 2000–01 season in the United Hockey League before joining the American Hockey League. He has spent the majority of his professional career playing for various AHL teams, with a few stops in the National Hockey League.

Severson played two games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim in the 2002–03 season, and thirty-one in the 2003–04 season, during which he scored three goals. He appeared in games with the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2005–06 season, after his rights were acquired from the Calgary Flames on February 28 in exchange for Cale Hulse.[1]

Severson moved to Germany's Deutsche Eishockey Liga in 2006, joining the Straubing Tigers. He stayed with the Tigers partway through the 2007–08 season and then moved on to play for the Linz Black Wings or the Erste Bank Liga for the remainder of the season.

In 2008, Severson was offered a job as an assistant coach of the Spokane Chiefs, a major junior team in the Western Hockey League, but instead joined Steaua București Hockey, a Romanian Hockey League team, becoming the first Canadian and the first former NHL player to play in Romania. Midway through the season, Severson was named assistant coach of the team, and then head coach. He was a coach/player for Steaua București Hockey of the Romanian Hockey League and Liga MOL in Romania[2] and signed with the Mississippi RiverKings on 18 August 2009 as a player-coach.

Coaching career

In 2010, Severson joined the Spokane Jr. Chiefs Bantam AAA Hockey Team in Spokane, Washington as their head coach.[3] He also puts on various camps throughout the year at the Eagles Ice-a-Rena, including Sever's Summer Hockey School, and enlists the help of current and former WHL and KIJHL players, such as Tyler Johnson and Tanner Mort of the Spokane Chiefs, Tyler Alos of the Seattle Thunderbirds, and others.[4]

In 2012, Severson founded Compete Hockey Schools and Compete Hockey Academy based out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Compete Hockey Schools runs numerous youth hockey development camps throughout Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.[5] Compete Hockey Academy is the first hockey prep school program in the Western United States.[6] Compete Hockey Academy teams play in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League [7] as well as attend various showcase tournaments throughout the United States. Compete Hockey Academy currently has 15-, 16-, 17- and 18-year-old players from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Texas, Canada, Russia, and Ukraine.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular seasonPlayoffs
SeasonTeamLeagueGP PIMGP G A Pts PIM
1993–94Kamloops BlazersWHL2 0 0 0 0
1994–95Kamloops BlazersWHL30 4 1 5 40
1994–95Swift Current BroncosWHL15 2 1 3 166 0 0 0 2
1995–96Swift Current BroncosWHL32 6 4 10 40
1995–96Lethbridge HurricanesWHL27 2 4 6 454 2 0 2 8
1996–97Lethbridge HurricanesWHL45 12 13 25 169
1996–97Prince Albert RaidersWHL16 5 13 18 544 4 0 4 8
1997–98Prince Albert RaidersWHL41 23 25 48 129
1997–98Spokane ChiefsWHL23 9 11 20 8818 11 4 15 51
1998–99Spokane ChiefsWHL46 16 17 33 190
1998–99Oklahoma City BlazersCHL5 6 3 9 410 4 0 4 26
1999–00Louisiana IceGatorsECHL7 0 2 2 22
1999–00Peoria RivermenECHL56 19 8 27 13818 3 4 7 41
2000–01Quad City MallardsUHL46 22 26 48 129
2000–01Portland PiratesAHL8 0 0 0 11
2000–01Cincinnati Mighty DucksAHL20 4 7 11 603 1 1 2 0
2001–02Hartford Wolf PackAHL65 11 10 21 1165 0 0 0 7
2002–03Cincinnati Mighty DucksAHL71 12 9 21 156
2002–03Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL2 0 0 0 81 0 0 0 0
2003–04Mighty Ducks of AnaheimNHL31 3 0 3 50
2003–04Cincinnati Mighty DucksAHL38 7 7 14 1459 1 5 6 29
2004–05Milwaukee AdmiralsAHL63 6 8 14 2554 0 0 0 12
2005–06Omaha Ak-Sar-Ben KnightsAHL54 13 7 20 146
2005–06Columbus Blue JacketsNHL4 0 0 0 5
2005–06Syracuse CrunchAHL12 4 3 7 283 0 0 0 21
2006–07Straubing TigersDEL45 14 8 22 76
2007–08Straubing TigersDEL13 1 0 1 47
2007–08EHC LinzEBEL21 6 4 10 3611 3 1 4 22
2008–09Steaua BucureștiROM29 24 17 41 70
2009–10Mississippi RiverKingsCHL18 8 5 13 34
AHL totals331 57 51 108 91715 1 1 2 40
NHL totals37 3 0 3 631 0 0 0 0

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Blue Jackets Acquire Forward Cam Severson From Calgary . Columbus Blue Jackets . December 10, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070507044343/http://www.bluejackets.com/news/press/arts/2905.0.html . May 7, 2007 . February 28, 2006.
  2. Web site: A Canadian in Bucharest. Manninen, Henrik. IIHF. 2009-03-31. 2009-04-02.
  3. Web site: Spokane Jr. Chiefs Bantam AAA Hockey Team . 2011-03-14 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110713193106/http://www.leaguelineup.com/teams_hockey.asp?cmenuid=5&url=jrchiefs&sid=774367898 . 2011-07-13 . dead .
  4. Web site: Sever's Summer Hockey School . 2011-03-14 . 2019-06-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190627173653/http://camseverson.com/ . dead .
  5. Web site: Home . competehockey.com.
  6. Web site: Compete Hockey Academy - Home . 2020-07-12 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140214064043/http://www.competehockeyacademy.com/ . 2014-02-14 . dead .
  7. Web site: Home . csshl.ca.