Former NHLer On University Of Calgary Roster

Jared Aulin Played For Kings & Drafted By Avs

From: University of Calgary Website

(left) Jared Aulin played in 17 games and scored two goals for the L.A. Kings in 2002-03. He was also involved in the trade that sent Rob Blake to the Colorado Avalanche

Next week DU will host an exhibition game against the University of Calgary. Calgary features a player that played in the NHL for the LA Kings during the 2002-03 season.
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Calgary native and former NHLer Jared Aulin headlines the University of Calgary roster. Aulin is a first-line center that can score – he had 108 points in the 2000-01 WHL season with Kamloops.
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Calgary coach Scott Atkinson, who enters his seventh season as head coach of the Dinos men’s hockey program said, “He has the complete skill package. He can skate, shoot, handle the puck, and he’s great passer.

“The thing he’s making the biggest impact in is that he’s confident in his abilities and he has a phenomenal work ethic, which makes him an example to some of our younger players.”

Aulin enrolled at the University of Calgary this fall after spending five seasons in professional hockey. His pro career took him to four different American Hockey League cities and three NHL franchises.

Aulin is the first hockey player to begin CIS play after playing in the NHL since Eric Calder, who played for the Washington Capitals from 1981-83 before joining the Wilfrid Laurier University Golden Hawks from 1985-88. Only nine other players in Canadian university hockey history have done so.

He was involved in an on-ice altercation in a local summer league this past July, where an opponent swung his stick like a baseball bat and struck Aulin in the neck. He fell to the ice unconscious, suffering a concussion and a swollen carotid artery.

Aulin, who was leading the league in scoring at the time with 17 goals and 31 points, contemplated leaving the game for good following the incident, but enjoys the fit with the Dinos, a team which includes several former Kamloops Blazers teammates – including Ryan Annesley, a line-mate in Kamloops he will be reunited with in Calgary. He plans to enter the Haskayne School of Business.

“I felt this was a great opportunity to get an education and play the game I love with a strong and competitive group of guys,” Aulin said.

After his outstanding career in the WHL, Aulin was drafted in the second round, 47th overall by the Colorado Avalanche in 2000. He played for Team Canada at the 2002 World Junior Hockey Championship, winning a silver medal. Aulin was tied for third in scoring at the tournament with nine points in seven games.

He was traded to the Los Angeles organization in 2001 as part of the Rob Blake deal and played 17 NHL games with the Kings in the 2002-03 season. He recorded two goals and two assists in the NHL, with both goals and one assist coming in L.A.’s 8-2 drubbing of the Carolina Hurricanes on Feb. 7, 2003 at Staples Center. He was named the second star of that game.

Late in the 2003-04 season Aulin was traded to the Washington Capitals for Anson Carter and spent the following three seasons with Portland, Hershey, and Springfield of the AHL. He was released by Springfield in November 2006, days after aggravating a shoulder injury that ended his season.

Aulin has one year of CIS eligibility remaining. Professional games played before Dec. 31 of the year in which an athlete turns 21 are not charged against the athlete’s CIS men’s hockey eligibility, so the games he played in the 2002-03 season are not counted. He will be eligible as of Nov. 12, one year following his final AHL game.