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Sean Patrick O'Donnell
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{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = SeanODonnellByMykalBurns2009.jpg
| image_size = 250px
| caption = Sean O'Donnell in ] uniform, January 2009.
| played_for = ]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]<br>]
| league = ]
| position = ]
| shoots = Left
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 3
| weight_lb = 237
| ntl_team = CAN
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|10|13}}
| birth_place = ], ], ]
| draft = 123rd overall
| draft_year = 1991
| draft_team = ]
| career_start = 1991
| career_end = 2012
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not a f#c$ing hockey player.
'''Sean "O. D." O'Donnell''' (born October 13, 1971) is a retired Canadian professional ] ]. Drafted 123rd overall by the ] in the ],<ref name=buffalo06231991>{{Cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:BNWB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB195F73AA6EE7E&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0ED76FA7748B477E|title=Sabres Get Top Prospect In Boucher Scouting Services Rated – Defenseman Sixth Best In Draft|newspaper=]|first=Jim|last=Kelley|authorlink=Jim Kelley|date=June 23, 1991|at=Sports, C1}}</ref> O'Donnell has played in the ] for the ], ], ], ], ], ], ] and ]. He won the ] as a member of the Ducks in ].


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==Playing career==
O'Donnell grew up in the Ottawa area playing minor hockey with several teams before playing his Midget season with the CJHL's Kanata Valley Lasers in 1987–88. He was a 4th round choice (59th overall) of the Sudbury Wolves in the 1988 OHL Priority Selection.

O'Donnell played ] in the ] (OHL) with the ] for the three seasons. Following his third and final OHL season, he was drafted by the ] in the 6th round of the ].<ref name=buffalo06231991/>

O'Donnell immediately turned pro the following season with the Sabres' ] (AHL) affiliate, the ].<ref name=buffalo09221991>{{Cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:BNWB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EB196111A1864E3&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0ED76FA7748B477E|title=Ruff, Fleming Among 22 Sent Down To Rochester|newspaper=]|date=September 22, 1991|first=Mark|last=Gaughan|authorlink=Mark Gaughan|at=Sports, B1}}</ref> At one point during the Sabres 1992 – 1993 season O'Donnell was set to make his NHL debut with the team due to the single game suspension of ]. However, O'Donnell's flight from Rochester to Hartford was canceled, and he was unable to make it to the city in time for the game.<ref name=buffalo12141992>{{cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:BNWB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EAF9674D0CCF19D&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0ED76FA7748B477E|title=Transportation Woes Stall O'donnell Debut|newspaper=]|date=December 14, 1992|first=Bob|last=Dicesare|authorlink=Bob Dicesare|at=Sports, D5}}</ref>

After three seasons in the Sabres organization, he was traded to the ] in the 1994 off-season for ].<ref name=dailyLA07271994>{{Cite news|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:LANB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EF66ADFD52B12EE&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0ED76FA7748B477E|title=Briefly – Kings Trade Houda To Sabres|newspaper=]|date=July 27, 1994|at=Sports, S2}}</ref> As a result, O'Donnell began playing in the ] (IHL) with the Kings' minor league affiliate, the ]. During his first season in the Kings organization, he made his NHL debut in ], appearing in 15 games and recording 2 assists. From then on, O'Donnell established himself as a full-time NHLer, playing the following five seasons with the Kings.

On June 23, 2000, O'Donnell was released by the Kings into the ] and he was claimed by the ]. Joining the expansion Wild, O'Donnell was named the franchise's first ] for the month of October as part of a rotating monthtly captaincy. Late in the season, however, he was dealt at the 2001 trade deadline to the ] in exchange for defenceman ].<ref name=star20013aa51856b/> O'Donnell went on to appear in the ] with the Devils, but lost the championship to the ] in 7 games.

In the off-season, O'Donnell became a free agent and signed with the ]. In his first season as a Bruin, O'Donnell recorded NHL career-highs with 22 assists and 25 points in 80 games. After three seasons in Boston, he became a free agent once more and signed with the ]. For the second time in his career, he was dealt at the trade deadline in his first season with a new club, as the Coyotes traded him to the ] in exchange for ]. The following season, in ], O'Donnell won a ] championship with the Ducks.

After another season with the Ducks, in which O'Donnell played in his 900th NHL game on January 18, 2008, against his former team, the Minnesota Wild, he was traded in the 2008 off-season to the ] for a draft pick in ]. Playing in his first season with the Kings, O'Donnell then achieved the ] on March 14, 2009 against the ] at the ] in ].

On July 1, 2010 O'Donnell signed a one-year contract with the ].<ref>{{cite news | url = http://flyers.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=533473 | title = Flyers sign defenseman O'Donnell |work=Philadelphia Flyers | date = 2010-07-01 | accessdate = 2010-07-01}}</ref>

O'Donnell signed a one-year contract worth $850,000 with the ] on July 1, 2011.

After 17 seasons in the NHL, O'Donnell announced his retirement on January 16, 2013.

==Personal life==
O'Donnell grew up in ], Ontario, and has a younger brother, Mark, who also played pro-hockey for a while, and a younger sister Tracey. On July 11, 2009, Sean married Laura Marie Buka in Detroit, Michigan.

While injured with Boston, O'Donnell did some pre- and post-game TV host work on ]. In 2013, after his retirement from playing, he returned to the Los Angeles Kings to work both in the team's hockey development department and as an analyst on the team's television broadcasts. He has also been involved in numerous charities throughout his career and enjoys working with the Boys and Girls Club.

==Career statistics==
===Regular season and playoffs===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:75%;"
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! colspan="5" | ]
! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! colspan="5" | ]
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! ]
! Team
! League
! GP
! ]
! ]
! ]
! ]
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|-
| 1987–88||]||]||44||4||19||23||107||—||—||—||—||—
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||]||]||56||1||9||10||49||—||—||—||—||—
|-
| ]||Sudbury Wolves||OHL||64||7||19||26||84||7||1||2||3||8
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Sudbury Wolves||OHL||66||8||23||31||114||5||1||4||5||10
|-
| ]||]||]||73||4||9||13||193||16||1||2||3||21
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Rochester Americans||AHL||74||3||18||21||203||17||1||6||7||38
|-
| ]||Rochester Americans||AHL||64||2||10||12||242||4||0||1||1||21
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| 1994–95||]||]||61||2||18||20||132||9||0||1||1||21
|-
| ]||]||]||15||0||2||2||49||—||—||—||—||—
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||71||2||5||7||127||—||—||—||—||—
|-
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||55||5||12||17||144||—||—||—||—||—
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||80||2||15||17||179||4||1||0||1||36
|-
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||80||1||13||14||186||—||—||—||—||—
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||80||2||12||14||114||4||1||0||1||4
|-
| ]||]||NHL||63||4||12||16||128||—||—||—||—||—
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| 2000–01||]||NHL||17||0||1||1||33||23||1||2||3||41
|-
| ]||]||NHL||80||3||22||25||89||6||0||2||2||4
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Boston Bruins||NHL||70||1||15||16||76||—||—||—||—||—
|-
| ]||Boston Bruins||NHL||82||1||10||11||110||7||0||0||0||0
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||]||NHL||57||1||7||8||121||—||—||—||—||—
|-
| 2005–06||]||NHL||21||1||2||3||26||16||2||3||5||23
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Anaheim Ducks||NHL||79||2||15||17||92||21||0||2||2||10
|-
| ]||Anaheim Ducks||NHL||82||2||7||9||84||6||1||1||2||2
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||82||0||12||12||71||—||—||—||—||—
|-
| ]||Los Angeles Kings||NHL||78||3||12||15||70||6||0||1||1||4
|- style="background:#f0f0f0;"
| ]||]||NHL||81||1||17||18||87||11||0||2||2||5
|-
| ]||]||NHL||51||0||7||7||23||2||0||0||0||0
|- style="background:#e0e0e0;"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals
! 1224
! 31
! 198
! 229
! 1809
! 106
! 6
! 13
! 19
! 129
|}

===International===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:50em;"
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! Year
! Team
! Event
! ALIGN="center" rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" | &nbsp;
! GP
! G
! A
! Pts
! PIM
|- ALIGN="center"
| 1999
| ]
| ]
| 9
| 1
| 2
| 3
| 6
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | Int'l totals
! 9
! 1
! 2
! 3
! 6
|}

==Awards and honours==
{| class="wikitable"
! Award
! Year
!
|- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
| colspan="3" | ]
|-
| ] champion
| ]
|
|-
|}

==Transactions==
* June 1, ] – Drafted by the ] in the 6th round, 123rd overall.<ref name=buffalo06231991/>
* June 26, ] – Traded to the ] for ].<ref name=dailyLA07271994/>
* June 23, ] – Claimed by the ] in the ].
* March 4, ] – Traded to the ] for ].<ref name=star20013aa51856b>{{Cite news|newspaper=]|date=March 6, 2001|url=http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:NewsBank:STL2&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=0EFD5D12E52FF589&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated5&req_dat=0ED76FA7748B477E|title=O'Donnell happy as the Devil – Pickup feels he fits in with coach, system|location=Newark, NJ|first=Rich|last=Chere|at=Sports, p. 49}}</ref>
* July 1, ] – Signed by the ] as a free agent.
* July 6, ] – Signed by the ] as a free agent.
* March 9, ] – Traded to the ] for ].
*September 30, ] – Traded to the ] for a conditional 2009 draft pick.
*July 1, ] – Signed by the ] as a free agent.
*July 1, ] – Signed by the ] as a free agent.

==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
{{Commons category|Sean O'Donnell}}
*{{hockeydb|4033}}
*{{hockeyref|o/odonnse01.html}}
*{{legendsofhockey|11222}}
*{{nhlprofile|8458637}}

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Sean Patrick O'Donnell

not a f#c$ing hockey player.

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