This past Thursday Vanderbilt’s star center AJ Ogilvy announced that he would skip his final season in the NCAA in order to enter the NBA draft.  However an unfortunate clerical error has instead put the 6’ 11’’ Australian up for consideration in the NHL draft.
Ogilvy was reportedly angered by the error at first, but in a recent press conference says he’s looking forward to a change of pace, “I mean in the NHL they don’t even have rebounds, so nobody can get mad a t me for not getting them!  Plus apparently in the NHL if you get angry at somebody, you can just hit them in the face.  I think I’ll enjoy doing that.”
The NHL says that they’re very glad to have Ogilvy in the draft.  According to one NHL representative, “Well, his form raised a few eyebrows when we noticed he wasn’t from Canada, and that he had apparently scored 13 points per game in college.  But right now we’ve really only got enough players for the first round so we took him.”
While Ogilvy has spent most of the past three years playing basketball with the commodores, but he feels confident he can figure hockey in time for the June draft.  “It shouldn’t be too hard,” says Ogilvy, “From everything I’ve read it just sounds like boxing on skates.”
NHL teams are very excited at the prospect of having Ogilvy on their squad.  According to Edmonton Oiler’s coach Pat Quinn, “He’s a really athletic guy and we can really see him being able to step in to any position once he learns to skate.  I mean as long as the guy can hold a stick and throw a punch, we can use him.”
Ogilvy would be in good company, as fellow Australian Wayne Gretzky also decided to join up with the NHL on a whim.  The Great One recalled fondly, “Yeah I had been running track for LSU and I wanted to play a sport that wouldn’t be so hot.  So I joined the NHL because I heard they play on ice… the rest is history.”