WORCESTER, Mass. – The Worcester Railers Hockey Club, ECHL affiliate of the New York Islanders, announced that the club has re-signed forward Chris Ordoobadi to an ECHL contract for the 2022-23 season.
Ordoobodi returns to the Railers after having joined the team midway through the 2021-22 season, posting two points (1g-1a) in 12 games. Ordoobadi tallied five points (1g-4a) in 18 games with Norfolk before being aquiared by the Railers.
The 27-year-old first played in the ECHL for the Maine Mariners during the 2018-19 season, playing in two games in after splitting his four years of college hockey between Neumann University, where he scored 18 points (10g-8a) in 43 games, and Lawrence University, where he played in 15 games. The Washington, D.C. native then made stops with the Roanoake Raildawgs of the Southern Professional Hockey League, and both Olofströms IK and Surahammars IF in Sweden, all during the 2019-20 season.