Tony Tuzzolino

Charles Anthony "Tony" Tuzzolino ( born October 9, 1975 in Buffalo, New York ) is a retired Italian- American hockey player at the position of the center, during his active career, among other nine NHL games for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, New York Rangers and Boston Bruins graduated in the National Hockey League. His brother Nick is also a professional hockey player.

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Career

After Tony Tuzzolino initially for various teams in unterklassigen U.S. junior leagues, including in the North American Hockey League played a few years, the striker started the season 1993/94 to study at Michigan State University. For the ice hockey team, known as Spartans, the right-handed shooter was active during four seasons in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association. After Tuzzolino had scored in his rookie season, only seven points scorer, he managed to increase his points total in each of the following three seasons. During this time, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1994 in the fifth round at 113th overall position of the Quebec Nordiques. After relocation of the franchise to Denver in June 1995 and renamed it Colorado Avalanche this still retained the NHL rights to the attacker. Since the Avalanche no contract with Tuzzolino brought into being and the exclusive rights were now forfeited, he signed in April 1997 as a free agent contract with the New York Islanders.

However, it remained the jump to the NHL squad of Islanders denied, so the offensive player nor during the 1997/98 season, on 6 February 1998, together with Travis Green and Doug Houda in exchange for Joe Sacco, Jean -Jacques Daigneault and Mark Janssens was transferred to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. For Californians, he finally debuted a short time later in the National Hockey League, but this was his only NHL insert for the Mighty Ducks. The following two seasons spent Tuzzolino mainly at their farm team, the Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, in the American Hockey League. In the course of the AHL season 1999/2000 the Mighty Ducks Players out on loan as he parked the Hartford Wolf Pack, which won for the first time the striker end of the season in his career, the Calder Cup. Subsequently, the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim did not renew the contract of striker, so that Tuzzolino the New York Rangers joined in February 2001 as a free agent.

For the Blueshirts, he played six NHL games, to record without a point scorer. For 2001/ 02 the American- Italian dual citizen received a contract with the Boston Bruins. As before in Anaheim and New York City came Tuzzolino even with the Bruins only very sporadically NHL inserts, while the offensive player in the jersey of the Providence Bruins ran aground on a regular basis. For the following season, he agreed to a contract with the Minnesota Wild, but was exclusively for their farm team, in addition to the Louisiana IceGators from the East Coast Hockey League and the Houston Aeros in the AHL, active. With the Houston Aeros Tuzzolino added to the end of the season 2002/ 03 after the success in the final series against the Hamilton Bulldogs the second Calder Cup victory for Trophy added. After he started the following season with the Binghamton Senators, the right-handed shooter decided the end of 2003 for the first time in his career for an engagement in Europe and hired the Italian first division club HC Asiago. In the 2003 /04 season he failed with the Venetians in the playoff finals to eventual champion HC Milano Vipers.

His subsequent career continued Tuzzolino mainly in Italy and continuing hired for each of a season with HC Bolzano and Cortina SG. During the season 2005 /06 but a short detour followed in the Swedish Elitserien for MODO Hockey Örnsköldsvik. For the 2006/07 season, the striker returned to the North American minor leagues and was in 14 games for the Flint Generals in the United Hockey League on the ice. During his further professional career until the summer of 2010 Tuzzolino was again in the service of HC Asiago and the Flint Generals, in between still followed by an engagement at SV Ritten and in the spring of 2010 finally signed the attacker a contract until the end of the season when HC Appiano Pirates in Serie A2.

Internationally

For Italy Tuzzolino participated in Turin at the Olympic Winter Games 2006. The striker was in four tournament matches on the ice and contributed with an assist in the 2:7 defeat to Canada in the statistics a. His 32 penalty minutes, he got all in the final group game against the Czech Republic due primarily to a game misconduct, most were of the entire tournament. He also achieved a plus / minus stats by -1 and gave four shots on goal.

Awards and achievements

• 2000 Calder Cup win with the Hartford Wolf Pack
• 2003 Calder Cup win with the Houston Aeros

Career Stats

Internationally

( 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 )