Pat Curcio

Pat Curcio

Head coach of the San Francisco Bulls
Born (1973-09-06) September 6, 1973
Toronto, ON, CAN
Height 5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Weight 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position Right Wing
Shot Right
Played for Dayton Bombers
Charlotte Checkers
Huntsville Blast
Milan Devils
Wedemark Scorpions
Ravensburg EV
Hannover Scorpions
Bayreuth ESV
Playing career 19912002

Patrick "Pat" Curcio (born September 6, 1973[1] in North York, Ontario) is a Canadian-Italian professional ice hockey coach, executive and former professional ice hockey player.

Playing career

Curcio played professionally in the East Coast Hockey League for the Dayton Bombers, Charlotte Checkers and Huntsville Blast and in the Colonial Hockey League for the Saginaw Wheels and Brantford Smoke.

In 1995, Curcio signed with the HC Devils Milano of Italy and had stints in the Swiss NLB with SC Herisau and in Germany in the following years. He played a total of 133 games for the Hannover Scorpions[2] in the German top-flight Deutsche Eishockey League (DEL)[3] and spent time with German minor league teams EV Ravensburg and ESV Bayreuth.

Coaching and managing career

He began his career behind the bench in 2001. In the 2006-07 season, he served as head coach of the Pickering Panthers of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. From 2007 to 2009, Curcio served as assistant coach of OHL's London Knights,[4] followed by assistant coach stints with the Utah Grizzlies (ECHL) and the Sault Sainte Marie Greyhounds (OHL).

In 2009, he organized the Euro Can Cup in London, Ontario, that included teams like EV Zug of Switzerland, EHC München of Germany and EHC Linz of Austria.[5]

He was the Founder, President, General Manager and Head Coach of the former San Francisco Bulls Professional Hockey Team. Curcio, along with his wife Elouise, brought professional hockey back to San Francisco, when they were granted a team in the ECHL in 2011. A year later, the Bulls debuted on October 12, 2012 to a capacity crowd of 8,277 at the Cow Palace.[6] The Bulls were the farm team of the NHL San Jose Sharks. The Bulls folded on January 27, 2014.[7]

In the 2014-15 campaign, he was the head coach of Hockey Milano Rossoblu in the Serie A in Italy.[8] He started the 2015-16 season as head coach of fellow Italian Serie A team HC Valpellice,[9] but left in November 2015 to take the position as assistant coach of HC Lugano in the Swiss top-tier National League A (NLA).[10]

Early career

Statistics

    Regular season   Playoffs
Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM
1991–92 Ottawa 67's OHL 201340 80114
1992–93 Dallas Freeze CHL 3212172937
1992–93 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 10000
1993–94 Dayton Bombers ECHL 111235
1993–94 Charlotte Checkers ECHL 31010
1993–94 Huntsville Blast ECHL 13191016 31012
1994–95 Saginaw Wheels CoHL 3012152720
1994–95 Brantford Smoke CoHL 101344
1995–96 Milan Devils Italy 3212395128
1996–97 Wedemark Scorpions DEL 25281016
1996–97 Ravensburg EV Ger.1 209142361
1997–98 Hannover Scorpions DEL 434141824
1998–99 Hannover Scorpions DEL 473131665
2001–02 Bayreuth ESV GerObL 40330

Coaching career overview

http://www.eliteprospects.com/staff.php?staff=3469

See also

References

  1. "Pat Curcio". Internet Hockey Database.
  2. "Pat Curcio: big-league determination". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  3. "DEL - DEL.org". www.del.org. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  4. "KNIGHTS HIRE PAT CURCIO". www.londonknights.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  5. "The ECHL - Premier 'AA' Hockey League | Behind the ECHL Benches - Pat Curcio, San Francisco Bulls". echl.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  6. Ho, Vivian (October 13, 2012). "Bulls Drop Opener in Front of 8,277". SF Chronicle.
  7. Lerseth, Mike (January 27, 2014). "San Francisco Bulls hockey team ceases operations". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
  8. "» Pat Curcio è il nuovo coach dell'Hockey Milano Rossoblu". www.hockeymilano.it. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  9. "Serie A - Pat Curcio lascia il Valpellice per andare a fare il secondo a Lugano". neveitalia.it. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  10. "The new assistant coach is Pat Curcio". www.hclugano.ch. Retrieved 2016-03-27.

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