Louie Caporusso

Louie Caporusso
Caporusso (left) next to Bryan Hogan
Date of birth	June 21, 1989
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	85 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 9
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 3rd round, 90th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2004-2005	Toronto Red Wings
2005-2007	St. Michael's Buzzers
2007-2011	University of Michigan
2011-2013	Binghamton Senators Elmira Jackals
2013	Reading Royals
2014-2015	Augsburg panther
2015-2017	Iserlohn Roosters
2017	Brynäs IF
2017-2019	Iserlohn Roosters

Luigi "Louie" Caporusso (born June 21, 1989 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who was last under contract with the Iserlohn Roosters in the German Ice Hockey League .

Career

Louie Caporusso began playing ice hockey in his hometown of Toronto . In the 2004/05 season he played for the Toronto Red Wings in the Greater Toronto Hockey League. There he was the top scorer in the league with 70 points in 56 games. The next year he moved to the St. Michael's Buzzers in the Ontario Provincial Junior Hockey League. There he won the championship with his team. In the 2006/07 season, as in the previous year, he was one of the best players on his team. In the 2007 NHL Entry Draft , he was selected in the third round in 90th place by the Ottawa Senators .

Caporusso in a game for the University of Michigan against Ferris State University

He then played for the University of Michigan team called Michigan Wolverines , with which he won the 2008 Central Collegiate Hockey Association championship. In the 2008/09 season he was one of the top performers on his team, scoring 49 points in 41 games. He has received numerous awards for his achievements, including a nomination for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award . The next year Caporusso won the championship of the CCHA again with the Wolverines . In the NCAA series for the national championship you lost in the quarterfinals. In his senior year he was one of the assistant captains and finished the regular season with his team as the best on points. He also played in front of over 100,000 spectators at the then world record game The Big Chill at the Big House . In the playoffs the CCHA was third and could again qualify for the NCAA series. There Caporusso and his team reached the final in the Frozen Four final tournament, which was lost to the University of Minnesota Duluth after extra time .

On May 30, 2011, he signed his first professional contract when he received a two-year entry level contract from the Ottawa Senators . After attending the Senators' training camp, he was sent to the farm teams . Caporusso played in the 2011/12 and 2012/13 seasons in the American Hockey League for the Binghamton Senators and in the ECHL for the Elmira Jackals . While he was able to confirm his performance from college in the ECHL, he had problems establishing himself in the AHL. After his contract expired, Caporusso received no new offer from the senators. Therefore, he signed with the Reading Royals from the ECHL in August 2013 . By the end of the year he had scored 28 points in 24 games there.

In January 2014 he moved to the German Ice Hockey League for the Augsburger Panthers . After 21 points in 19 games, he extended his contract there by one year in March 2014. In the 2014/15 season he was the Panther's top scorer with 38 points in 47 games. In June 2015 he moved to league competitor Iserlohn Roosters . There he extended his contract for a year in January 2016 and was also the top scorer of his team. After two years in Iserlohn, Caporusso moved to Brynäs IF in the Svenska Hockeyligan for the 2017/18 season . In November 2017 he returned to the Iserlohn Roosters and played for the club until the end of the 2018/19 season.

Achievements and Awards

• 2006 OPJHL championship with St. Michael's Buzzers
• 2007 OPJHL All-Star Team
• 2008 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
• 2009 CCHA First All-Star Team
• 2009 CCHA All-Tournament Team
• 2009 NCAA West First All-American Team
• 2009 nomination for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award
• 2010 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
• 2010 CCHA All-Tournament Team

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM	+/-
2004/05	Toronto Red Wings	GTHL		56	41	29	70	34			-	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	St. Michael's Buzzers	OPJHL		48	29	44	73	44			25th	8th	10	18th	16
2006/07	St. Michael's Buzzers	OPJHL		37	23	27	50	45			20th	14th	19th	33	14th
2007/08	University of Michigan	CCHA		33	12	9	21st	18th	12
2008/09	University of Michigan	CCHA		41	24	25th	49	30th	10
2009/10	University of Michigan	CCHA		45	21st	22nd	43	26th	9
2010/11	University of Michigan	CCHA		41	11	20th	31	22nd	17th
2011/12	Binghamton Senators	AHL		13	0	0	0	6th	-2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Elmira Jackals	ECHL		29	16	16	32	8th	5		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL		23	1	5	6th	8th	-1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Elmira Jackals	ECHL		41	19th	26th	45	22nd	15th		6th	2	6th	8th	4th	7th
2013/14	Reading Royals	ECHL		24	7th	21st	28	23	-1		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Augsburg panther	DEL		19th	8th	13	21st	4th	-2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Augsburg panther	DEL		47	15th	23	38	46	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		49	18th	30th	48	32	10		6th	2	2	4th	0	1
2016/17	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		42	13	16	29	56	-21		-	-	-	-	-	-
OPJHL total				85	52	71	123	89			45	22nd	29	51	30th
CCHA total				160	68	76	144	96	48
AHL total				36	1	5	6th	14th	-3		-	-	-	-	-	-
ECHL total				94	42	63	105	53	19th		6th	2	6th	8th	4th	7th
DEL total				157	54	82	136	138	–11		6th	2	2	4th	0	1

( 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 )

Web links

• Louie Caporusso at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Louie Caporusso at hockeydb.com (English)
• Louie Caporusso at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louie Caporusso back at the Seilersee , press release from November 1, 2017 on www.iserlohn-roosters.de, accessed on November 1, 2017.