ECHL: Idaho Steelheads Sign Mark Olver

The Idaho Steelheads have announced that they’ve signed forward Mark Olver to a contract for the 2024-25 season. His father, Jon Olver, spent five seasons as the Head Coach/VP of Hockey Operations for the Steelheads and led them to their first Kelly Cup Championship in 2004. Over the course of his five years with the Steelheads, the team would go 228-100-2-18, making him the winningest head coach in the history of the Idaho Steelheads.

Olver has spent eight seasons playing in the DEL in Germany, including the last seven years. In those eight years in the DEL, he put up 54 goals and 94 assists for 148 points in 282 games, including winning a DEL championship in 2021. He would add eight goals and 11 assists for 19 points in 51 DEL Playoff games. The Burnaby, British Columbia native has also made stops in Russia and Switzerland. 

Prior to playing overseas, the former fifth-round pick of the Colorado Avalanche in 2008 would spend six seasons playing in the AHL and NHL. In 230 games at the AHL level with the Lake Erie Lake Monsters, Tuscon Roadrunners, and Bakersfield Condors, he would put up 54 goals and 88 assists for 142 points and would be named to the AHL All-Star Team in 2011. He would add two goals and two assists for four points in seven games during the 2011 Calder Cup Playoffs. Olver would add 10 goals and 12 assists for 22 points in 74 games with the Avalanche.

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Armand Klisivitch

Inside The Rink ECHL Manager | Senior Editor Credentialed Reporter for the Adirondack Thunder & Worcester Railers.

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