| Round | Overall |
| 5 | 57 |
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Right-hand shot
Pre-Draft Statistics
| Year | Team | League | GP | G | A | TP | PIM |
| 1967-68 | Minnesota | WCHA | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| 1968-69 | Minnesota | WCHA | 31 | 6 | 12 | 18 | 6 |
Pre-Draft Notes
Also played right wing. ... Played on Minnesota freshman team in 1967-68. ... Was captain and leading scorier of Lake of Woods High School team in 1966-67.
After the Draft
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Named to NCAA West All-America First Team with Minnesota in 1969-70.
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WCHA All-Star First Team with Minnesota in 1969-70.
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WCHA All-Star Second Team with Minnesota in
1970-71.
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Selected by New York Raiders in 1972 WHA General Player Draft, first
draft in WHA history, in February 1972.
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Won Olympic silver medal with Team USA in the 1972 Winter Olympics
at Sapporo, Japan.
- Signed WHA contract with New
York Raiders on July 19, 1972.
- Played on first New York
Raiders team in WHA's inaugural 1972-73 season.
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Traded by New York Raiders (WHA) to Chicago in exchange for Butch
Barber and furture considerations on May
13, 1973.
- NAHL All-Star First
Team with Long Island in 1973-74.
- Named the
co-winner of SHL MVP Award (with Andre Deschamps) with Hampton in
1974-75.
- Named to SHL All-Star First
Team with Hampton in 1974-75.
- Traded by
Minnesota (WHA) with George Morrison, Don Tannahill, and Joe
Micheletti to Calgary in exchange for John McKenzie and cash on
Sept. 4, 1975.
- Played on Team USA squad that finished
sixth at the 1977 World Championships in Austria.
- Played on Team USA squad that finished
seventh at the 1979 World Championships in Moscow.
- Played on Team USA squad that
finished fifth at the 1981 World Championships in Sweden.
- Named one of the 50 greatest players in University of Minnesota history as part of "Legends on Ice" tribute in 2001.
Miscellaneous
Full Name:
Walter Raymond Olds
Post-Draft Teams: Minnesota (WCHA); Team USA; New York (WHA); Long Island (EHL); Long Island (NAHL); Hampton (SHL); Oklahoma City (CHL); Springfield (AHL); Calgary (WHA);
Bad Nauheim, Bad Tolz (West Germany); Davos
(Switzerland);
Gothenburg (Sweden); Kapfenberg (Austria)
Education: Attended the University
of Minnesota, earning degree with honors in electrical engineering. He
graduated in top 10 percent of the class of 1971 and making the dean's
list in every quarter.
European Career: After playing
for four years in the WHA and the minors, Olds went to Europe, where he
spent seven more seasons with a variety of
teams in West Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Austria. He also played
for host Davos, where he was coached by Herb Brooks, in the 1980 Spengler Cup tournament.
Olds and Brooks had missed each other at the University of Minnesota,
since Brooks became head coach there a year after Olds' graduation.
While playing in Europe, Olds represented Team USA in numerous World
Championship tournaments.
Career Beyond Hockey: Moved
to Long Island, N.Y., after his retirement from hockey in Europe and worked in the
construction business for the remainder of the 1980s before returning to
Minnesota in 1990. He worked for one season as the head hockey coach at Breck School
in Golden Valley. He went on worked as a sales
engineer for local hydraulic testing equipment companies and played in numerous Oldtimers
hockey games in Minnesota. ... He passed
away at age 59, just two months after being diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer.
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VIDEO: Olds Discusses His Career
| SNAPSHOT '69 | |
| Total Selected: | 84 |
| Forwards: | 58 |
| Defense: | 18 |
| Goaltenders: | 8 |
| Major Junior: | 68 |
| College Players: | 8 |
| Canadian: | 78 |
| Euro-Canadian: | 1 |
| American: | 4 |
| European: | 1 |
| Reached NHL: | 49 |
| Won Stanley Cup: | 10 |
| Hall of Fame: | 1 |
| All-Star Game: | 7 |
| Year-end All-Star: | 1 |
| Olympians: | 2 |
| Picks Traded: | 11 |
| 1969 PICKS BY TEAM | ||
| Boston | Chicago | Detroit |
| Los Angeles | Minnesota | Montreal |
| New York | Oakland | Philadelphia |
| Pittsburgh | St. Louis | Toronto |
OTHERS DRAFTED IN 1969