Jack Capuano
Jack Capuano (* July 7, 1966 in Cranston, Rhode Iceland ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player and current coach of Italian descent. During his active career he played for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks and Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League. His brother Dave also played in the NHL. Since 15 November 2010 he has been head coach of the New York Islanders in the NHL.
Career
During his time at Kent Prep School, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1984 by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the fifth round at position 88. Capuano played from 1985 to 1988 in ice hockey team of the University of Maine in the Hockey East. There, the defender was one of the regulars of the team and scored in the 1987/88 season 50 points in 43 games. In the 1988/89 season he played exclusively for the Newmarket Saints and came to 75 missions in the American Hockey League before he made his debut for the Maple Leafs in the NHL for the following season. But it remained only a commitment to the Leafs in the NHL. On 20 December 1989 he was transferred Islanders in a barter transaction to New York. Capuano played the season with the Springfield Indians in the AHL at the end, after he had previously run again in Newmarket.
In March 1990, the Islanders for Jeff Rohlicek sent him to the Vancouver Canucks. Also there was his breakthrough in the NHL denied. He came to three inserts for the Canucks and was then sent for the rest of the season on the Milwaukee Admirals in the International Hockey League. On 1 August 1991 he signed as a free agent contract with the Boston Bruins. After two games in the NHL his career was finished at the Bruins, then he ended the 1991/92 season with the Maine Mariners in the AHL and was thereafter known end of his career.
The 1996/97 season he began as an assistant coach for the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks in the East Coast Hockey League. After the dismissal of Barry Smith, he was even featured in the same season as head coach of the Knoxville Cherokees. But Capuano could the team during the season no longer lead back on track and missed the playoffs as the last of the East Division. For the next season he was coach of the Pee Dee Pride. In three seasons in a row Capuano led the team to the playoffs and failed in the game in 1998/99 only in the round of last four against eventual champion Mississippi Sea Wolves. During the 2000/ 01 season he was appointed coach of the Pee Dee Pride after the departure of Frank Anzalone again. After 15 games, his second commitment was there but already stopped again.
In the season 2005/ 06 he worked as an assistant coach with the New York Islanders. He then also took over at their farm team, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, the same position and was promoted to head coach a year later. In three years, twice the catchment succeeded in the playoffs, where he followed the resignation in the first round. The 2010/11 season began Capuano at the Sound Tigers. After the dismissal of Scott Gordon on 15 November 2010 Capuano was promoted to coach of the Islanders. His vacant position in Bridgeport filled Pat Bingham from.