Peter Taglianetti
Peter Anthony Taglianetti ( born August 15, 1963 in Framingham, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who in his playing days from 1981 to 1996 among others for the Winnipeg Jets, Minnesota North Stars, Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning National Hockey League has played.
Career
Peter Taglianetti began his career as a hockey player at Providence College, for his hockey team, he was active in the National Collegiate Athletic Association from 1981 to 1985. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1983 in the third round than a total of 43 players from the Winnipeg Jets, for whom he was towards the end of the 1984/85 season his debut in the National Hockey League. From 1985 to 1990 the defender was a regular for the Jets in the NHL used, played in parallel but also for their farm team Sherbrooke Canadiens and Moncton Hawks in the American Hockey League. The season 1990/91 he joined the Minnesota North Stars in the NHL has been issued but already in December 1990, together with Larry Murphy in exchange for Chris Dahlquist and Jim Johnson of the Pittsburgh Penguins. With the Penguins, he immediately won the prestigious Stanley Cup. He was able to repeat with his team in the 1991/92 season this success.
In June 1992 Taglianetti was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the NHL Expansion Draft. Already in March 1993, however, he was transferred from Tampa Bay in exchange for a third- round option for the NHL Entry Draft in 1993 back to the Pittsburgh Penguins, where he stayed another two years. In his last year in Pittsburgh, he also played in parallel in seven games for the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League. The 1995/96 season spent the Americans at the Providence Bruins in the AHL before he ended his career at the age of 33 years.