Jason Cirone
Jason Cirone ( born February 21, 1971 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a former Italian- Canadian professional ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active period from 1987 to 2008, including for the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League and the Frankfurt Lions in the German Ice Hockey League has played.
Career
Jason Cirone started his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Football League Ontario Hockey League, where he was active for the Cornwall Royals and Windsor Spitfires 1987-1991. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1989 in the third round than a total of 46 players from the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he 92 three games in the National Hockey League completed in the season 1991 /. The majority of the playing time he spent but at the Moncton Hawks farm team in the American Hockey League. For the 1992/93 season the Center moved to Asiago from Italy's Serie A1. This was followed by three years in which he spent only a short time at various teams in the North American minor leagues. There he played for the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League, the. Cincinnati Cyclones and Los Angeles / Long Beach Ice Dogs of the International Hockey League, the Birmingham Bulls of the ECHL and the San Diego Gulls of the West Coast Hockey League He also played in 1994 and 1995 for Buffalo Stampede in professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International. From 1996 to 2000 he stood for the Kansas City Blades in the IHL on the ice.
For the 2000/01 season Cirone has been committed by the Frankfurt Lions of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. For Hesse, he scored in 51 games 35 scorer points, including 18 goals. He then spent five years at his former club Asiago in the Italian Serie A1. Finally, the Italo - Canadians ever ran for a year for the Rio Grande Valley Killer Bees in the Central Hockey League and the Flint Generals in the new International Hockey League on.
From 2008 to 2010 Cirone was assistant coach at the Motor City Metal Jackets of the Junior League North American Hockey League. In the season 2010/11 he served as head coach of the Metro Jets of the third-rate junior league NA3HL.
Internationally
For Italy Cirone participated in the World Championships in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and the World Championship Division I 2004 part. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.