Matt Tomassoni

Matt Tomassoni
Date of birth	July 30, 1989
place of birth	Carol Stream , Illinois , USA
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	defender
number	# 97
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
until 2006	Chicago Mission
2006-2008	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders
2008–2012	Miami University
2012-2013	Iserlohn Roosters
2013-2014	HC Bolzano
2014-2015	Kassel Huskies
2015-2017	Löwen Frankfurt
2017-2018	HC Bolzano

Matthew Tomassoni (born July 30, 1989 in Carol Stream , Illinois ) is an American ice hockey player who was last under contract with HC Bozen in the Erste Bank Ice Hockey League .

Career

Matt Tomassoni played inline hockey as a child and started ice hockey at the age of eleven. Until 2006 he ran in different age groups for Chicago Mission , whose junior teams with the classification Tier 1 AAA correspond to the highest level of the age groups Squirt (9-10 years) to Midget Major (15-18 years). In the USHL Entry Draft 2006 he was selected in the sixth round in 71st place by the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders. In August 2006, the defender played with the US U18 national team at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament in Břeclav and reached the final, which was lost 3-0 against Canada .

In the 2006/07 season he made his debut in the United States Hockey League and reached the second round of the playoffs with the Cedar Rapids RoughRiders . During the next season Tomassoni was invited to the USHL All-Star Game because of his shown performances. With his team, however, he was defeated in the first round of the playoffs. For the 2008/09 season he began studying political science as a major at Miami University and played for the local ice hockey team, the Miami RedHawks . In his freshman year, his team made it to the finals of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's college championship . There they lost to Boston University 3: 4 after extra time. The next year Tomassoni and his team finished the regular season as the best points team in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association . In the playoffs, however, they were eliminated in the semifinals. In the 2010/11 season, the defender contributed six goals and nine assists to winning the championship of the CCHA. Tomassoni played predominantly as a striker in his senior year, having previously gained experience in that position. After leaving the playoffs, the American signed a contract with Chicago Express on March 28, 2012 and made his professional debut in the ECHL .

On July 24, 2012 Tomassoni signed a four-week trial contract with the Iserlohn Roosters from the German Ice Hockey League . There he met head coach Doug Mason , who had spotted him for a long time, as his son had also played for Miami University for three years. One day before the first day of play, the Roosters extended the contract with the 23-year-old until the end of the season. Tomassoni made a decisive contribution to the following 5: 3 away win for Iserlohn at Düsseldorfer EG with an underpaid goal and an assist. In the further course he showed good performance both on the offensive and defensive and developed into the top performer of the Roosters. In the summer of 2013, he moved to Italy, where he signed for HC Bozen , newcomer to Erste Bank Eishockey Liga .

Between 2014 and 2017 he was active in the second German division, the DEL2 : first with the Kassel Huskies and then for two years with the Löwen Frankfurt . In June 2017 he returned to HC Bozen.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 USHL All-Star Game
• 2011 CCHA championship with Miami University
• 2014 EBEL winner with HC Bozen
• 2018 EBEL winner with HC Bozen

Career statistics

				Regular season							Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM	+/-		Sp	T	A.	Pt	SM	+/-
2006/07	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		40	2	2	4th	44	−4		5	0	1	1	0	1
2007/08	Cedar Rapids RoughRiders	USHL		59	7th	20th	27	48	−2		3	0	1	1	2	0
2008/09	Miami University	CCHA		32	0	5	5	32	9
2009/10	Miami University	CCHA		31	4th	2	6th	28	7th
2010/11	Miami University	CCHA		36	6th	9	15th	58	7th
2011/12	Miami University	CCHA		39	6th	6th	12	24	0
2011/12	Chicago Express	ECHL		3	0	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Iserlohn Roosters	DEL		48	6th	10	16	28	-4		-	-	-	-	-	-
USHL total				99	9	22nd	31	92	−6		8th	0	2	2	2	1
CCHA total				138	16	22nd	38	142	23

( 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

• Matt Tomassoni at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Matt Tomassoni at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ chicagomission.com: Chicago Mission Alumni
2. ↑ eliteprospects.com: USHL Entry Draft 2006
3. ↑ chicagomission.com: Matt Tomassoni Selected to USA Under 18 Select Team
4. ↑ muredhawks.com: Matt Tomassoni Profile
5. ↑ iserlohn-roosters.de: Matt Tomassoni signs try-out contract  ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ↑ iserlohn-roosters.de: Roosters oblige Brendan Brooks ( Memento of the original from October 28, 2012 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. 
7. ↑ pointstreak.com: Match report from September 14, 2012
8. ↑ derwesten.de: From auditioner to roosters performer