Canadian center Eric O’Dell, 34, has been released by Dynamo Moscow. According to the KHL club’s website, “The contract was terminated at the initiative of the club.”

O’Dell is normally an offensive center who produced a career-high 51 points in 64 games last season. This season, he has only produced six points in 14 games, which might have been a factor in his release. It is interesting, though, that O’Dell had three points with six shots on goal and was plus-2 in his last two games with the club after going pointless in his previous seven games. He had a goal and an assist in his last game, Oct. 8 against Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

O’Dell comes from Ottawa, Ont. and played junior hockey for the OHL’s Sudbury Wolves. He was chosen in the second round, 39th overall, by the Anaheim Ducks in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

O’Dell played professionally in North America from 2011 to 2016 in the systems of the Winnipeg Jets, Ottawa Senators and Buffalo Sabres. He played 41 NHL games for the Jets in the 2013-14 and 2014-15 seasons, scoring three goals and adding five assists and 29 penalty minutes. He spent the rest of the time in the AHL.

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O’Dell has played in the KHL continuously since 2016 for HK Sochi, Metallurg Magnitogorsk, Sibir Novosibirsk and Dynamo Moscow, whom he’d played for since 2021. As of his release from Dynamo, he had 262 points in 411 KHL regular-season and playoff games.

Internationally, O’Dell won a gold medal with Canada at the 2008 IIHF U-18 World Championship and a silver at the 2022 senior men’s Worlds in his only two appearances in those tournaments. He also represented Canada in the Winter Olympics twice, in each of the last two tournaments that didn’t include NHL players. He won a bronze medal in 2018 in Pyongchang and was also in Beijing in 2022. He had seven points in 11 Olympic games.