MONTREAL -- Former McGill right winger Doug Orr, a nephew
of Hall of Famer Bobby Orr, has signed a pro contract with EC Peiting, a third-division
team in the German Oberliga.
Orr becomes the 34th McGill hockey graduate since 1983 to sign with a European
team and will be the 11th to play in Germany.
Peiting is located in the Bavarian Alps, some 48 kilometres north of Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Orr, a 26-year-old native of Newmarket, Ont., previously played in the Central
Hockey League with Rio Grande Valley, Arizona and Youngstown.
Over his five seasons with the McGill Redmen, the 5-foot-10, 177-pound forward
scored 47 goals and 118 points in 149 career games, earning all-conference honours
in each of his last two years.
He served as an alternate captain in 2005-06 and graduated with an arts degree,
majoring in industrial relations. In 2004-05, he won the team's Molson Cup award
for accumulating the most three-star selections.
Orr comes from an athletic family. Aside from the established exploits of his
famous uncle, his mother Teresa McDonnell-Orr and aunt Nancy McDonnell, were
both Olympians for Canada.
Teresa was a three-time Olympian in artistic gymnastics. She competed at the
1968 Mexico Games, the 1972 Munich Games and the 1976 Montreal Games.
