Pat Curcio
| Pat Curcio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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Head coach of the San Francisco Bulls | |||
| Born |
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 | 1991–2002 | ||
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 | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1991–92 | Ottawa 67's | OHL | 20 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | ||
| 1992–93 | Dallas Freeze | CHL | 32 | 12 | 17 | 29 | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1992–93 | Prince Albert Raiders | WHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Dayton Bombers | ECHL | 11 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Charlotte Checkers | ECHL | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1993–94 | Huntsville Blast | ECHL | 13 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | ||
| 1994–95 | Saginaw Wheels | CoHL | 30 | 12 | 15 | 27 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1994–95 | Brantford Smoke | CoHL | 10 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1995–96 | Milan Devils | Italy | 32 | 12 | 39 | 51 | 28 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996–97 | Wedemark Scorpions | DEL | 25 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1996–97 | Ravensburg EV | Ger.1 | 20 | 9 | 14 | 23 | 61 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | Hannover Scorpions | DEL | 43 | 4 | 14 | 18 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Hannover Scorpions | DEL | 47 | 3 | 13 | 16 | 65 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001–02 | Bayreuth ESV | GerObL | 4 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
Coaching career overview
Curcio has a combined 127 wins going into the 2012-2013 season
- 2006–07 Pickering Panthers Head Coach (OPJHL)
- 2007–08 London Knights (OHL)*
- 2008–09 London Knights (OHL)*
- 2009–10 Utah Grizzlies (ECHL)*
- 2010–11 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)*
- 2012–13 San Francisco Bulls GM/ Head Coach (ECHL) San Jose Sharks affiliate
- 2013–14 San Francisco Bulls GM/ Head Coach (ECHL) San Jose Sharks affiliate NHL
- 2014–15 Hockey Milano Rossoblu Head Coach (Serie A)
- 2015 HC Valpellice Bulldogs (left Nov,1. 2015) Head Coach
- 2015 - HC Lugano NLA Asst. Coach
*Denotes assistant coach
References
- ↑ "Pat Curcio". Internet Hockey Database.
- ↑ "Pat Curcio: big-league determination". SFGate. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "DEL - DEL.org". www.del.org. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "KNIGHTS HIRE PAT CURCIO". www.londonknights.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "The ECHL - Premier 'AA' Hockey League | Behind the ECHL Benches - Pat Curcio, San Francisco Bulls". echl.com. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ Ho, Vivian (October 13, 2012). "Bulls Drop Opener in Front of 8,277". SF Chronicle.
- ↑ Lerseth, Mike (January 27, 2014). "San Francisco Bulls hockey team ceases operations". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 27, 2014.
- ↑ "» Pat Curcio è il nuovo coach dell’Hockey Milano Rossoblu". www.hockeymilano.it. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "Serie A - Pat Curcio lascia il Valpellice per andare a fare il secondo a Lugano". neveitalia.it. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
- ↑ "The new assistant coach is Pat Curcio". www.hclugano.ch. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
External links
- SFBulls.com
- Pat Curcio: big-league determination
- No bull: these things really happened
- Bulls by the horns: S.F. embraces hockey