Career
He was drafted in the eighth round, 192nd overall, by the San Jose Sharks in the 1997 National Hockey League Entry After playing five full seasons in the Western Hockey League and part of a sixth, Severson joined the Central Hockey League"s Oklahoma City Blazers during the 1998-1999 season. He spent the 1999–2000 season in the East Coast Hockey League and part of the 2000-2001 season in the United Hockey League before joining the American Hockey League. He was spent the majority of his professional career playing for various AHL teams, but has made a few stops in the National Hockey League.
Severson played two games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim during the 2002-2003 season and 31 during the 2003-2004 season, during which he scored three goals.
Most recently, he appeared in games with the Columbus Blue Jackets in the 2005-2006 season, after his rights were acquired from the Calgary Flames on February 28 in exchange for Cale Hulse. He moved to Germany"s Deutsche Eishockey Liga in 2006, joining the Straubing Tigers.
He stayed with the Tigers partway through the 2007-2008 season and then moved on to play for the Linz Black Wings or the Erste Bank Liga for the remainder of the season. In 2008 he was offered a job as an assistant coach of the Spokane Chiefs, a major junior team in the Western Hockey League, but instead joined Steaua Bucureşti Hockey, a Romanian Hockey League team
Severson became both the first Canadian and former National Hockey League player to play in Romania.
Mid-way through the season, Severson was named assistant coach of the team, and promoted to head coach. He was a coach/player of Steaua Bucureşti Hockey of the Romanian Hockey League and Liga MOL in Romania and joined on 18 August back to United States of America to sign for Mississippi RiverKingsas a player coach. In 2010, he joined the Spokane Junior.
Chiefs Bantam American Automobile Association Hockey Team in Spokane, Washington as their head coach.
He also puts on various camps throughout the year at the Eagles Ice-a-Rena, including Sever"s Summer Hockey School, and enlists the help of current and former WHL and KIJHL players, such as Tyler Johnson and Tanner Mort of the Spokane Chiefs, Tyler Alos of the Seattle Thunderbirds, and others In 2012, he founded Compete Hockey Schools and Compete Hockey Academy based out of Coeur d"Alene Idaho, Compete Hockey Schools runs numerous youth hockey development camps throughout Washington, Idaho and Alaska.
Compete Hockey Academy is the first Hockey Preparatory School Program in the Western United States. Compete Hockey Academy teams play in the Canadian Sports School Hockey League as well as attend various showcase tournaments throughout the United States.
Compete Hockey Academy currently has 15-, 16-, 17- and 18-year-old players from Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Wyoming, Washington, Idaho, Texas, Canada, Russia and the Ukraine.