Rico Rossi

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Flag of Canada and Italy.svg  Rico Rossi Ice hockey player
Date of birth June 22, 1965
place of birth Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size 174 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1985-1989 Northeastern University
1989-1992 HC Milano Saima
1992-1993 Dallas Freeze
1993-1995 SG Milano Saima

Rico Rossi (born June 22, 1965 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a former Italo - Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . Since September 2019 he has been the head coach of the Dresdner Eislöwen from the DEL2 .

Player career

The 1.74 m tall winger played during his college days for the Northeastern University team in the National Collegiate Athletic Association and then moved to the Italian Serie A at HC Milano Saima . In order to no longer prove a foreigner license, the left-handed shooter soon took on the Italian citizenship and played for the northern Italians until his career ended in 1995. The only exception was a brief return to North America, where the attacker was on the ice for a season for the Dallas Freeze in the minor league Central Hockey League in 1992 .

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1985/86 Northeastern University NCAA 38 12 18th 30th 83
1986/87 Northeastern University NCAA 33 9 7th 16 118
1987/88 Northeastern University NCAA 35 8th 23 31 103
1988/89 Northeastern University NCAA 29 12 18th 30th 102
1989/90 HC Milano Saima SerA 41 20th 37 57 72
1990/91 HC Milano Saima SerA 34 11 17th 28 50 9 0 0 0 27
1991/92 HC Milano Saima SerA 9 0 6th 6th 24 12 0 4th 4th 16
1992/93 Dallas Freeze CHL 39 18th 17th 35 128 7th 4th 4th 8th 30th
1993/94 SG Milano Saima SerA 12 5 7th 12 35
1994/95 SG Milano Saima SerA 21st 3 9 12 82
NCAA overall 135 41 66 107 406
Series A overall 117 39 76 115 263 21st 0 4th 4th 43

( 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 )

Coaching career

After his active career, Ricco Rossi took over the German regional league team GEC Nordhorn in 1996 , which he led into the 2nd Bundesliga in just two years, also due to the dissolution of the third-class 2nd division North . After separating from Lower Saxony in November 1998, the Canadian signed a contract with third division club EV Duisburg , with which he initially missed promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga. After three years Rossi moved to ESV Bayreuth , who soon had to part with the new coach due to financial difficulties. After a brief return to the now second-rate EV Duisburg, the former attacker became Bill Stewart's assistant at the DEL record champion Adler Mannheim . For the 2004/05 season he took over the professional team of the cooperation partner Heilbronner Falken, with whom he rose as a league champion in 2007 in the 2nd Bundesliga. Rossi also coached the Falken in the 2009/10 season in the 2nd Bundesliga , after he was able to reach the play-off semi-finals and quarter-finals with the team in the first two second division years. In April 2013, Rossi was appointed sports director of the Falcons, while Ken Latta took over the freelance coaching position. From the 2014/15 season Rossi was coach of the Kassel Huskies in the DEL2 . In the 2015/16 season he led the Huskies to win the championship title in the DEL2. At the end of October 2018, Rossi moved from coaching to the position of sporting director at the Huskies after a negative series of sporting events.

Rossi has been the head coach of the Dresdner Eislöwen since September 2019 .

Stations

Private

Rossi is married and has two children. His wife lives in Toronto.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Latta new trainer of the Heilbronner Falken. Stimme.de, April 17, 2013, accessed on April 18, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Huskies win DEL2 championship titles. (No longer available online.) In: www.eckasselhuskies.de. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; accessed on April 23, 2016 . 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.eckasselhuskies.de
  3. ↑ https://www.eishockeynews.de/aktuell/artikel/2018/10/23/bobby-carpenter-neuer-trainer-der-kassel-huskies-rico-rossi-wird-sportlicher-leiter.html
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Squad of the Dresdner Eislöwen in the 2020/21 season
personal data
SURNAME Rossi, Rico
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 22, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario, Canada