Angelo Esposito

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Angelo Esposito
Date of birth February 20, 1989
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 82 kg
position center
number # 7
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2007 , 1st round, 20th position
Pittsburgh Penguins
Career stations
2004-2005 Shattuck St. Mary's
2005-2008 Québec Remparts
2008-2009 Montréal Junior Hockey Club
2009-2011 Chicago Wolves
2011–2012 San Antonio Rampage
2012 Texas Stars
2012-2013 Pelicans
2013-2014 HC Bolzano
since 2014 Fort Wayne Comet

Angelo Esposito (born February 20, 1989 in Montreal , Québec ) is an Italian - Canadian ice hockey player on the position of the center , who has been under contract with the Fort Wayne Komets in the ECHL since July 2014 .

Career

Esposito first played for the Shattuck St. Mary’s ice hockey team in the United States high school league system from 2004 to 2005 . He was considered to be the first player in the draft of the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec because of his talent as a candidate , but he told all general managers that he would never play in the league and instead the US college league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Just before the Val-d'Or Foreurs , who were supposed to select the eleventh player, had their turn in the draft, they gave their voting rights in the first round to the Québec Remparts in exchange for several players and draft picks. Esposito's statement that he would never play in the league had been passed over by all teams so far, but the Remparts selected him with the Val-d'Or Foreurs draft pick. A few weeks later, the management of Remparts agreed on a contract with Esposito.

Esposito was placed in the front row in the center position right at the start of his first season in the LHJMQ in autumn 2005. In his first game, he scored his first goal after a few seconds. After doing great things in the first half of the season, he faltered in the second half, but managed to score 39 goals and 59 assists in 57 games. Together with his strike partners Mathieu Melanson and Alexander Radulow , he formed the best striker series in the league, which led the team to the final of the championship and a little later to triumph in the Memorial Cup final round. After the season, Esposito received the Michel Bergeron Trophy as the best offensive rookie . Due to his excellent first season in the LHJMQ, Angelo Esposito was the favorite to be selected as the first player in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 and was in the rankings of the National Hockey League for the Entry Draft for a long time at the top. Since his second season with 27 goals and 52 assists was worse than the first, he slipped in the final rankings to eighth place.

In the 2007 Entry Draft, he was selected at position 20 by the Pittsburgh Penguins . In September 2007 he took part in the training camp of the Penguins, but was not able to assert himself and spent the 2007/08 season at the Ramparts, where he continued to play well, but again failed to match the performance of his first season. At the end of February 2008 Esposito was part of a package of players that was sent to the Atlanta Thrashers for Marián Hossa , among others . The 2007/08 season ended with the attacker with the Chicago Wolves , for whom he made his debut in the American Hockey League . After he was transferred to the Montréal Junior Hockey Club on June 7, 2008 within the LHJMQ , the Atlanta Thrashers brought him on July 18, 2008 to sign a multi-year NHL contract. After the training camp with the Atlanta Thrashers they sent him back to the LHJMQ. Esposito only played 35 games for the Montréal Junior Hockey Club during the season because a cruciate ligament ruptured him from the game. The following season the center spent with the Chicago Wolves and played twelve games in the AHL after his comeback, before a new knee injury set him back again in further development. In the 2010/11 season , the Canadian was on the ice for most of the season for the first time in around three years and improved his point yield to 13 points in 57 games.

On July 9, 2011, the Winnipeg Jets transferred him to the Florida Panthers in exchange for Kenndal McArdle . In January 2012, the Panthers gave the center in exchange for the Czech winger Ondřej Roman to the Dallas Stars . He started the 2012/13 season with the Pelicans from the SM-liiga , before moving to Italy in January 2013. There he signed in Serie A1 with newly promoted Milano Rossoblu , but left the club in October of the same year and then played for HC Bozen in the EBEL . At the end of the season he won the EBEL championship with the South Tyrolean team.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Shattuck St. Mary's USHS 68 31 35 66 47
2005/06 Québec Remparts LHJMQ 57 39 59 98 45 23 6th 5 11 4th
2006 Québec Remparts Memorial Cup 4th 1 4th 5 6th
2006/07 Québec Remparts LHJMQ 60 27 52 79 63 5 4th 3 7th 2
2007/08 Québec Remparts LHJMQ 56 30th 39 69 69 11 4th 6th 10 6th
2007/08 Chicago Wolves AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2008/09 Montréal Junior Hockey Club LHJMQ 35 24 18th 42 25th - - - - -
2009/10 Chicago Wolves AHL 12 0 4th 4th 2 - - - - -
2010/11 Chicago Wolves AHL 57 3 10 13 35 - - - - -
2011/12 San Antonio Rampage AHL 16 2 3 5 8th - - - - -
2011/12 Cincinnati Cyclones ECHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
2011/12 Texas Stars AHL 38 5 11 16 19th - - - - -
US high school total 68 31 35 66 47
LHJMQ total 208 120 168 288 202 39 14th 14th 28 12
AHL total 124 10 28 38 64 - - - - -
ECHL total 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - -

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2006 Canada Quebec U17-WHC 6th 3 1 4th 0
2007 Canada U18 World Cup 6th 3 3 6th 0
2009 Canada U20 World Cup 6th 3 1 4th 4th
Juniors overall 18th 9 5 14th 4th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

Others

Angelo Esposito is not related to former NHL greats Phil and Tony Esposito . Curiously, however, two of his uncles are called Phil and Tony. Like Phil Esposito, he wears the number 7 on his jersey.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hockeymilano.it, Angelo Esposito, sangue italiano e presente rossoblu ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.hockeymilano.it
  2. ↑ Angelo Esposito signs entry-level contract with Atlanta Thrashers. (No longer available online.) The Hockey News , July 18, 2008, archived from the original on August 17, 2008 ; Retrieved July 10, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehockeynews.com
  3. ^ Panthers Acquire C Angelo Esposito from Winnipeg. Florida Panthers, July 9, 2011, accessed July 10, 2011 .
  4. ↑ Tom Ferda: Angelo Esposito out to make a name for himself. (No longer available online.) The Hockey News, July 19, 2008, archived from the original on April 6, 2009 ; Retrieved July 10, 2011 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thehockeynews.com
personal data
SURNAME Esposito, Angelo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec