Dave Capuano
David Alan Capuano ( born July 27, 1968 in Warwick, Rhode Iceland ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player of Italian descent. During his career he played for the Pittsburgh Penguins, Vancouver Canucks, Tampa Bay Lightning and San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League. His brother Jack also played in the NHL.
Career
Capuano first played from 1986 to 1989 very successfully at the University of Maine and was elected several times into various all-star teams in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Previously, already the Pittsburgh Penguins had secured the rights to his person in the NHL Entry Draft in 1986. There they had selected him in the second round at 25 overall position.
In the season 1989/90 the Americans then played his first NHL games for the Penguins. Six times he played there before he was released in January 1990 in a comprehensive six- player swap deal to the Vancouver Canucks. The season 1990/91 spent, the left winger then completely in the NHL with the Canucks. After a knee injury he had suffered in November, 1990, he fell from almost the entire 1991/92 season and ran in only nine games in the American Hockey League.
In November 1992 he moved to the Tampa Bay Lightning, which mainly put it in the International Hockey League. For the Lightning even he was only six times on the ice. This then sent him in June 1993 in exchange for the Finns Peter Ahola to the San Jose Sharks, for which he also played only four times. In November of the same year the Sharks to the Boston Bruins gave him from where Capuano played 51 games for their AHL farm team Providence Bruins. After the season, in the summer of 1994, he ended his career in which he played 104 NHL games for four different teams, scoring 55 points.