Ray Podloski

Raymond Sidney Podloski (January 5, 1966 – May 29, 2018) was a Canadian-Austrian professional ice hockey player. He played eight games in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins during the 1988–89 season. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1986 to 2005, was mainly spent in Europe. Internationally Podloski played for the Canadian national team for a time, before gaining Austrian citizenship and playing for the Austrian national team at the 1999 World Championship.

Podloski died of complications from a heart attack in 2018 at the age of 52.