Pat Curcio

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Pat Curcio
Born (1973-09-06) September 6, 1973 (age 50)
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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 Curcio (born September 6, 1973) [1] is a Canadian-Italian professional ice hockey coach, executive and former professional ice hockey player. Pat is now a Partner with Optima World Sports

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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] Curcio was promoted to Associate coach in September 2016. He has helped the team advance to 3 finals in 2 years: 2 silver Medals at Spengler Cup and the NLA Championship finals in 2016. He and head coach Doug Shedden were sacked by HCL on January 16, 2017. [11]

In June 2017, the Italian-based EBEL Team Hockey Club Bolzano hired Curcio as head coach for the 2016–2017 season. [12] He parted company with the club in late November 2017. [13]

re-Hired in March 2018, by Hockey Club Bolzano to help sign the team for the 2018–2019 season as a special consultant to the GM.Curcio left the position in June 2018 to become a full time partner with Optima World Sports

Pat Curcio is now a partner with Optima World Sports. For over 25 years Optima has been representing Hockey Players in all of Europe, Asia and the KHL.

Early career

Statistics

   Regular season   Playoffs
Season TeamLeagueGP G A Pts PIM GPGAPtsPIM
1991–92 Ottawa 67's OHL 20134080114
1992–93 Dallas Freeze CHL 3212172937—————
1992–93 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 10000—————
1993–94 Dayton Bombers ECHL 111235—————
1993–94 Charlotte Checkers ECHL31010—————
1993–94Huntsville BlastECHL1319101631012
1994–95 Saginaw Wheels CoHL 3012152720—————
1994–95Brantford SmokeCoHL101344—————
1995–96 Milan Devils Italy 3212395128—————
1996–97 Wedemark Scorpions DEL 25281016—————
1996–97 Ravensburg EV Ger.1 209142361—————
1997–98 Hannover Scorpions DEL434141824—————
1998–99 Hannover Scorpions DEL473131665—————
2001–02Bayreuth ESV GerObL 40330—————

Coaching career overview

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  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 (in Italian). Archived from the original on 2014-09-14. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  9. ↑ "Serie A - Pat Curcio lascia il Valpellice per andare a fare il secondo a Lugano". neveitalia.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  10. ↑ "The new assistant coach is Pat Curcio". www.hclugano.ch. Retrieved 2016-03-27.
  11. ↑ redesign-agency.ch, REDESIGN SAGL |. "Shedden and Curcio out, Ireland and Silander in". www.hclugano.ch. Archived from the original on 2017-01-18. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  12. ↑ "L'HCB Alto Adige Alperia ha il suo nuovo allenatore: Par Curcio alla guida dei Foxes" (in Italian). June 15, 2017. Retrieved June 16, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Trainerwechsel in der EBEL – HCB Südtirol und Head Coach Pat Curcio gehen getrennte Wege". Sportreport (in German). 2017-11-28. Retrieved 2017-12-07.
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