Gino Cavallini
Gino Cavallini (* November 24, 1962 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Italian- Canadian professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1982 to 2001 among others for the Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues and Quebec Nordiques in the National Hockey League, and the EV Landshut has played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. His brother Paul was also a professional hockey player.
Career
Gino Cavallini began his career as a hockey player in the team of the Bowling Green State University, where he was active from 1982 to 1984. Then the attackers received on 16 May 1984 a contract as a free agent with the Calgary Flames, where he also played in the National Hockey League in the following year and a half as for their farm team, the Moncton Golden Flames, in the American Hockey League. On 1 February 1986 he was given together with Eddy Beers and Charlie Bourgeois in exchange for Joe Mullen, Terry Johnson and Rik Wilson at the St. Louis Blues, for which he was on the ice six years before he from in February 1992 their league rival Quebec Nordiques was committed.
From 1993 to 1996 Cavallini played for the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League. He then went to Europe, where he received a contract with EV Landshut of the German Ice Hockey League, for whom he also played two years as then for the EC VSV in the Austrian Hockey League. With the Kärntern he won the national championship in the 1998/99 season. His career ended the Italo - Canadians following the 2000/01 season, he had spent the EHC Biel from Swiss National League B, at the age of 38 years.