Bob Wren had 57 goals and 88 assists for 145 points during the 1992-93 Ontario Hockey League season. These staggering numbers were overshadowed in the early 1990s. Wren’s 145 points trailed 17 behind Owen Sound Platers’ Andrew Brunette and three others had more goals that season. His teammate Pat Peake beat out Wren for the Red Tilson Trophy as Ontario Hockey League MVP.

Wren played three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 1991-92 to 1993-94. He played all three seasons for the franchise that would eventually become the Plymouth Whalers. In its first season, the team was known as the Detroit Compuware Ambassadors and in its last two seasons it was the Detroit Junior Red Wings.

In Bob Wren’s final season in the Ontario Hockey League, his 109 regular season points weren’t even good enough for the league’s top 10. He produced another 30 points in 17 playoff games as the Junior Red Wings reached the Robertson Cup final earlier. him being kicked out by the North Bay Centennials.

Wren was selected by the Los Angeles Kings in the fourth round of the 1993 NHL draft, 94th overall. His National Hockey League career would only amount to five regular-season games, four with the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and one with the Toronto Maple Leafs. Wren would also appear in a playoff game with the Maple Leafs in 2001-02.

After nearly 600 games in the North American minor leagues, Bob left for Europe for the 2003-04 season. Since then, he has spent his time in Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga (EBEL) and Germany’s Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). In his seven seasons in Europe’s elite leagues, Wren has always been above one point per player. He led the Austrian league in assists in the 2004-05 season as a member of the Vienna Capitals.

Last season, Bob Wren played for DEL’s ERC Ingolstadt and is under contract to play for the team again next season.

Bob Wren is also featured in a previous post about OHL graduates among the top ten scorers in the DEL.