Tom O'Regan
Tom O'Regan ( born December 29, 1961 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who was active among other things, for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League and later at the best strikers and defenders in the Hockey league and the German Ice Hockey League counted.
Career
After several seasons at Boston University, with whom he played in the U.S. College Football ECAC Hockey, he got in the summer of 1983, his first professional contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Those responsible for the Penguins put the left-handed shooters however, a majority in their former farm team, the Baltimore Skipjacks, in the American Hockey League. Overall, he graduated in the three seasons he was in Pittsburgh under contract, 62 league games, scoring 17 points scorer. He then joined the 1986/87 season the Adirondack Red Wings at, the then farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, before the summer of 1987 for the next season to Germany to EV Landshut in the then highest German league, the Bundesliga, changed.
After another season in Landshut, he moved to the BSC Preussen. There he trained for two seasons along with Dave Silk of the most successful duos in club history, the so-called Boston Brothers: Together both came in a total of 90 games on 249 points scorer. Only after Silks departure before the start of the 1991/92 season was one of our man from Boston, as he was called by the fans due to his the enemy dreaded game hardness as his offensive style for years among the most effective defenders of the league even after the introduction of the DEL. Up to end of his career after the 1997/98 season he played in Berlin for the Prussians and after the renaming of 1995 for the Preussen Devils since 1996 for the Berlin Capitals.
In the national team of the United States, he came several times to operations, including at the Ice Hockey World Championship 1995