Dan LaCosta

Dan LaCosta
Date of birth	March 28, 1986
place of birth	Labrador City , Newfoundland and Labrador , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	goalkeeper
number	# 33
Catch hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 3rd round, 93rd position Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2001-2002	Wellington Dukes
2002-2005	Owen Sound Attack
2005-2006	Barrie Colts
2007-2010	Syracuse Crunch Columbus Blue Jackets
2010	EC Red Bull Salzburg

Dan LaCosta (born March 28, 1986 in Labrador City , Newfoundland and Labrador ) is a Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who was under contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian ice hockey league until September 2010 and currently has no club.

Career

LaCosta began his career in the Ontario Hockey League , where he played a total of four seasons for Owen Sound Attack and later for the Barrie Colts and showed good performances. After he had already been drafted in 2003 , he showed great potential at the end of his junior career in the 2005/06 season with an average goal against 2.55. This was followed by a move to the ECHL and then to the American Hockey League , where he moved between the farm teams of the Columbus Blue Jackets .

In the 2007/08 season he first stepped NHL ice and guarded the goal of the Blue Jackets for thirteen minutes, where he received no goal and parried a total of five shots. In the following year he brought it again to three missions and played as the first goalkeeper for the Syracuse Crunch in the AHL. In the 2009/10 season , however, LaCosta failed to follow up on his previous performances and displace Kevin Lalande as number one in the goal of the Syracuse Crunch.

In the summer of 2010 it became known that he had accepted an engagement in Europe for the first time: the Austrian first division club EC Red Bull Salzburg signed the Canadian on a trial basis for the new season, where he was to succeed David LeNeveu . His contract was not renewed after the try-out in Salzburg.

Career statistics

Main round

season	team	league	GP	W.	L.	T	MIP	GA	ATM	SVS	SVS%	SO	G	A.	PIM
2001-02	Wellington Dukes	OPJHL	24										0	0	0
2002-03	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	28	8th	10	3	1321	82	3.72	594	87.87	0	0	1	0
2003-04	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	37	17th	10	1	1810	82	2.72	818	90.89	4th	0	1	0
2004-05	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	25th	15th	7th	2	1423	70	2.95	598	89.52	0	0	0	0
	Barrie Colts	OHL	21st	10	4th	3	1054	48	2.73	493	91.13	1	0	0	0
2005-06	Barrie Colts	OHL	59	36	17th	4th	3340	142	2.55	1533	91.52	6th	0	1	2
2006-07	Dayton Bombers	ECHL	13	3	5	1	556	32	3.45	221	87.35	0	0	0	0
	Syracuse crunch	AHL	19th	5	7th	1	852	40	2.82	338	89.42	3	0	0	2
2007-08	Syracuse crunch	AHL	15th	9	2	3	848	30th	2.12	408	93.15	1	0	0	0
	Elmira Jackals	ECHL	14th	7th	4th	1	754	27	2.15	371	93.22	0	0	0	0
	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL	1	0	0	0	13	0	0.00	5	100.00	0	0	0	0
2008-09	Syracuse crunch	AHL	45	19th	18th	2	2469	115	2.79	1202	91.27	2	0	2	0
	Columbus Blue Jackets	NHL	3	2	0	0	156	4th	1.54	76	95.00	1	0	0	0
2009-10	Syracuse crunch	AHL	26th	7th	15th	1	1362	90	3.96	671	88.17	1	0	1	0

Play-offs

season	team	league	GP	W.	L.	T	MIP	GA	ATM	SVS	SVS%	SO	G	A.	PIM
2002-03	Owen Sound Attack	OHL	1	0	0	0	23	1	2.61	8th	88.89	0	0	0	0
2004-05	Barrie Colts	OHL	5	1	2	0	214	11	3.08	108	90.76	0	0	0	2
2005-06	Barrie Colts	OHL	11	5	2	3	654	34	3.12	294	89.63	0	0	0	0

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; ¹  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

• Dan LaCosta at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Salzburg brings new goalkeeper to tryout , report on hockeyfans.at from July 26, 2010
2. ↑ Salzburg throws out all try outs. In: hockeyfans.at. September 10, 2010, accessed May 31, 2017 .