Rich Costello
Richard Costello (* June 27, 1963 in Framingham, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey player who played in his time from 1981 to 1991 among others for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League.
Career
Rich Costello began his career as a hockey player at Providence College, which he attended from 1981 to 1983 while he was playing in parallel for the ice hockey team in ECAC Hockey. Even as a junior player, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 in the second round than a total of 37 players from the Philadelphia Flyers. This gave his transfer rights but of 20 January 1982 together with a second-round vote for the NHL Entry Draft in exchange for Darryl Sittler in 1982 to the Toronto Maple Leafs from. For the Toronto Maple Leafs, he gave towards the end of the 1983/84 season his debut in the National Hockey League, having previously participated in the preparation for the Winter Games in 1984 with the Olympic team of the United States, but had not managed in the Endkader. For the Maple Leafs, he was in his rookie year in ten games on the ice, scoring two goals and an assist. Mostly, however, he came to their farm team in St. Catharines Saints of the American Hockey League action. For the Saints, he was a regular in the following two years and he only came to two other fires in the NHL for Toronto in the 1985/86 season, where he prepared a goal. In the 1986/87 season of the Center for Toronto's new AHL farm team Newmarket Saints ran on.
The 1987/88 season began Costello at the Utica Devils of the AHL, completed for the team but only three games. He then went to Europe, where he spent the rest of the season with Jokerit Lappeenranta off of I- divisioona, the Finnish second division. There he was able to convince scorer with 21 points in 26 games, after which the Americans were obliged to season 1988 /89 of Schwenningen ERC from the Hockey League. For the SERC he was only eleven games on the ice, but was able to achieve six goals and eight assists in this. The 1989/90 season he began the EC Ratingen in the 2nd Hockey League, where he contributed 56 points scorer in 29 games. The season itself, he finished, however, the HC Davos of the Swiss National League B. With Davos he dismounted in the third Swiss league. For the 1990/91 season, the attacker returned once to North America and the Albany Choppers joined from the International Hockey League. For the chopper in nine games he scored one goal and three assists, before he ended his career at the age of 28 years.