Tom Barrasso

Thomas Patrick Barrasso ( born March 31, 1965 in Boston, Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional ice hockey goaltender of Italian descent, who from 1983 to 2003 for the Buffalo Sabres, Pittsburgh Penguins, Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs, and St. Louis Blues played in the National Hockey League. Most recently, he was an assistant coach at Metallurg Magnitogorsk.

Career

Tom Barrasso grew up in a working class neighborhood where he learned on an outer surface ice hockey to play. As Keeper of the Acton - Boxborough High he also moved into the field of view of the scouts and played for the U.S. team at the 1983 Junior World Championships. The Buffalo Sabres took him with the fifth pick in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1983. Nearly all colleges in the United States would have liked to have had for her Barrasso Hockey Team, but he opted for the Providence College in Rhode Iceland. As the Sabres but immediately brought him into the NHL, the change to college never came.

Together with Bob Sauve he stood in the 1983/84 season in goal for the Sabres and his first season was a Outstanding. He led the Sabres in the playoffs and was honored for his great rookie season with the Calder Memorial Trophy, here he had prevailed against Steve Yzerman. Naturally, therefore, he was All- Rookie Team in the NHL. His performance was not only outstanding for a rookie, but as the best goalkeeper in the NHL season he also won the Vezina Trophy. This feat was previously only Frank Brimsek (1939) and Tony Esposito (1970 ) have succeeded. At that time it was Barrasso, who was now playing for the U.S. national hockey team, as the best goalkeeper in the world.

This was followed by a series of very good years in Buffalo where he and Bob Sauve the William M. Jennings Trophy won in 1985 for the lowest Gegentorschnitt and twice (1985 and 1988 ), second in the election for the Vezina Trophy was.

The Pittsburgh Penguins were in the 1988/89 season, a team that Mario Lemieux had to a very strong offense, but the defensive still had major weaknesses. In November 1988, one could with the Sabres on an exchange transaction in which some Barrasso moved to Pittsburgh. The deal went on for the Penguins and so Barrasso was the great support when you could bring the Stanley Cup to Pittsburgh in 1991 and 1992. The 1992/93 season was for him a very successful and the third time he had to settle for second place in the race for the Vezina Trophy satisfied.

A foot injury cost him almost the entire 1994/95 season and in the season 1996/97 he was only five games contest with a shoulder injury. But each time returned Barrasso and could draw attention to himself with impressive performances. In March 2000, he was discharged to the Ottawa Senators.

The 2000/01 season he sat out, but returned a year later back in the NHL. The final phase of his season was associated with many changes. His comeback he celebrated for the Carolina Hurricanes but moved to the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City where he also came with a game used to the Toronto Maple Leafs. This was followed in the 2002/03 season still six games for the St. Louis Blues before then for a day or a pro-forma contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins signed to end his career as a Penguin.

In September 2007, he returned as Director of Goaltender Development to the Carolina Hurricanes. In his position, he was responsible for the training and development of the goalkeeper out of the organization of the Hurricanes, who played in the Minor Leagues. For the season 2009/10 he was hired by the Hurricanes as assistant coach.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

  • 2002 Silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games

Records

  • Most NHL points a goalkeeper (48, all assists)

NHL stats

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