Luca Caputi
Gianluca " Luca " Caputi ( born October 1, 1988 in Toronto, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since January 2012, the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League contract.
Career
Luca Caputi began his career in his hometown of Toronto. In the 2003 /04 season he played for the Toronto Junior Canadiens in the Greater Toronto Hockey League. He then moved into the Ontario Hockey League with the Mississauga IceDogs. After two seasons with a total of just nine points scorer, the striker was able to achieve 2006/ 07 of 65 points in 68 games in the season and thus contributed to the play-off participation of his team decisively. Many scouts gave Caputi due to its size and good technical skills a good chance the NHL Entry Draft, selected in the second round in 2007 to become. Ultimately, the Pittsburgh Penguins secured in the fourth round at 111th place the rights to him. The main reason for the later choice mainly were deficiencies in the physical game. 2007 Caputi began the season with the Niagara IceDogs was an improvement as a striker in the front row again his points haul.
On 23 April 2008 he signed a three year contract with his NHL team and was active for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, with whom he was only in the final of the Calder Cup to the Chicago Wolves defeated in the AHL playoffs. In the season 2008/ 09 Caputi first played in the American Hockey League and was on February 3, 2009 game against the Montreal Canadiens made his debut in the National Hockey League. 14 seconds after he came on to the ice for the first time, he scored the 1-0 for the Penguins. It was followed by four more games before the striker was sent back to the farm team. On 4 March 2009 he was summoned for disciplinary reasons for the Wheeling Nailers in the ECHL third-rate. After three games by three points, the management Caputi got back to the AHL.
In March 2010 he was discharged together with Martin Škoula in exchange for Olexij Ponikarowskyj to the Toronto Maple Leafs. The season 2009/10 ended the offensive player in the NHL squad the Leafs, for which he recorded a goal and five assists in 19 games. For the following season Caputi was sent to the Toronto Marlies to the farm team after training camp, with the Canadians during the season also garnered playing time in the NHL. After it had failed even to season 2011/12 to secure a place in the NHL squad of Toronto, he acted until the beginning of 2012, exclusively in the AHL farm team of the Leafs.
3 January 2012 it transferred these in exchange for Nicolas Deschamps to the Anaheim Ducks.
Awards and achievements
- 2008 OHL Second All-Star Team
Career Stats
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )