Nate DiCasmirro

Nate DiCasmirro
Date of birth	September 27, 1978
place of birth	Atikokan , Ontario , Canada
size	179 cm
Weight	88 kg
position	striker
number	# 27
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1995-1998	North Iowa Huskies
1998-2002	St. Cloud State University
2002-2003	Hamilton Bulldogs
2003-2004	Toronto Roadrunners
2004-2005	Edmonton Road Runners
2005-2006	Grand Rapids Griffins
2006-2007	Providence Bruins
2007-2008	San Antonio Rampage
2008	Syracuse crunch
2008-2009	HC Bolzano
2009	Timrå IK Örebro HK
2009-2010	Villacher SV
2010–2012	HC Pustertal
2012-2013	HC Valpellice
2013-2014	Sheffield Steelers
2014-2015	HC Valpellice
2015-2016	HC Bolzano
since 2016	HDD Jesenice

Nathan DiCasmirro (born September 27, 1978 in Atikokan , Ontario ) is an Italian - American - Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HDD Jesenice in the Alps Hockey League since August 2016 .

Career

Club

Born in the Canadian province of Ontario , Nate DiCasmirro grew up in Burnsville in the US state of Minnesota and initially had dual citizenship of Canada and the United States . He began his career as a professional hockey player in 1995 with the North Iowa Huskies of the United States Hockey League , for which DiCasmirro played three seasons. In the summer of 1998, he decided to attend university and signed a four-year contract with St. Cloud State University from the National Collegiate Athletic Association . Already last year at the university he came to work for the Hamilton Bulldogs from the American Hockey League towards the end of the season . Before the 2002/03 season he finally moved to the Hamilton Bulldogs and competed with the team in the entire AHL championship. After a year he moved to league rivals Toronto Roadrunners , where he made it to 35 scorer points in 71 games. In the summer of 2004, Nate DiCasmirro joined the Edmonton Road Runners before signing a year-long contract with the Grand Rapids Griffins in 2005 . From 2006 to 2008, the Italian-Canadian stormed mainly for the Providence Bruins . In the middle of the second season with the Providence Bruins DiCasmirro moved again for 23 games to the San Antonio Rampage and for 20 games to the Syracuse Crunch .

In the summer of 2008 his adventure Europe began. DiCasmirro signed a contract with HC Bozen from the Italian Serie A1 before the 2008/09 season , but where he had to vacate his place again after 23 games. The rest of this season (10 games) he stormed for Timrå IK from the Swedish Elitserien . The following summer, the Swedish club Örebro HK took him from the Allsvenskan under contract. Against the middle of the season he left the team and found his new employer at Villacher SV in the Austrian ice hockey league . In the summer of 2010, the right wing moved again to Italy. This time he signed a contract with HC Pustertal , which, like HC Bozen, contests the championship of the Italian A1 series. At the beginning of May 2011 it was announced that his contract with HC Pustertal would be extended for one year. After two seasons in Val Pusteria, he switched to league rivals HC Valpellice in summer 2012 . There he stayed only a year and then moved to Great Britain in the Elite Ice Hockey League to the Sheffield Steelers and won the EIHL playoffs with them.

From August 2015 DiCasmirro was again under contract with HC Bozen, which meanwhile played in the Austrian ice hockey league. After a year in Bolzano, he moved to HDD Jesenice in the Alps Hockey League the following season .

International

At the Olympic qualification for the Games in Sochi , which took place in Bietigheim-Bissingen in February 2013 , DiCasmirro made his debut in the Italian national ice hockey team . Italy did not qualify for the 2014 Winter Games as third party, but DiCasmirro's goal in extra time decided the game against Germany for the Italians, which resulted in the Austrian team securing the Olympic ticket instead of the Germans . Later that year, DiCasmirro and the Italian team achieved promotion to the top division of the World Cup by finishing second behind Kazakhstan in Group A of Division I at the 2013 Ice Hockey World Championship . He then played in the top division in 2014 and, after relegated immediately, again in division I in 2015 .

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 USA Hockey Junior Player of the Year
• 1998 USHL striker of the year
• 1998 Most valuable player in the USHL
• 2001 Broadmoor Trophy win with St. Cloud State University
• 2001 WCHA Second All-Star Team
• 2011 Coppa Italia win with HC Pustertal
• 2011 Italian runner-up with HC Pustertal
• 2013 Promotion to the top division at the World Championship of Division I, Group A.
• 2013 Coppa Italia win and Italian runner-up with HC Valpellice
• 2014 EIHL Playoff Champion with the Sheffield Steelers

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL main round	7th	401	66	117	183	299
AHL playoffs	6th	70	12	14th	26th	56
Series A1 main round	5	167	51	105	156	220
Serie A1 playoffs	4th	47	13	26th	39	82
Elitserien main round	1	10	2	2	5	4th
ÖEHL main round	2	79	10	23	33	38
ÖEHL playoffs	2	11	1	5	6th	8th

(Status: end of the 2015/16 season)

Web links

• Nate DiCasmirro at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Nate DiCasmirro at eurohockey.com
• Nate DiCasmirro at sonice.it

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Joe Cullen and Nate DiCasmirro stay with HC Pustertal , accessed on May 2, 2011
2. ^ Giuseppe Poli: Bolzano ancora sul mercato. Arriva Nate DiCasmirro. In: hockeytime.net. Retrieved September 15, 2015 (Italian). 
3. ↑ The HDD Jesenice is caught by Nate DiCasmirro. In: eishockey-magazin.de. August 24, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016 .