Steve Pinizzotto

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Steve Pinizzotto
Date of birth April 26, 1984
place of birth Mississauga , Ontario , Canada
Nickname Zotto
size 185 cm
Weight 98 kg
position Right wing
number # 41
Shot hand Right
Career stations
2000-2005 Oakville Blades
2005-2007 Rochester Institute of Technology
2007-2011 Hershey Bears
South Carolina Stingrays
2011-2013 Vancouver Canucks
Chicago Wolves
2013 San Antonio Rampage
2014-2015 Edmonton Oilers
Oklahoma City Barons
2015-2018 EHC Red Bull Munich
2018-2019 Cologne Sharks

Steven "Steve" Pinizzotto (born April 26, 1984 in Mississauga , Ontario ) is a German - Canadian ice hockey player who was active in the German Ice Hockey League for the EHC Red Bull Munich and the Kölner Haie . He plays in the position of the right winger and is considered a tough player with many penalty minutes, who was mostly used as an agitator in the fourth row in the NHL or AHL and whose tasks were primarily the defensive game and provoking the opponent.

Pinizzotto is the son of an Italian and a German and he has both Canadian and German citizenship. His two brothers Jason and Marc are also professional ice hockey players.

Career

Canadian Junior and US College Leagues

Pinizzotto began his career just like his brothers before with the Oakville Blades in the second-rate Canadian junior league OPJHL , where he was active for five seasons from the 2000/01 season. In the 2004/05 season he was the most successful player on his team with 95 points and the third best scorer in the entire league. He then moved to the university team of the Rochester Institute of Technology in Atlantic Hockey in 2005 , which is integrated into the game operations of the US college league NCAA . Here, too, he was again the most successful scorer of his team in his second season in 2006/07.

2 × Calder Cup winners and NHL players in Vancouver and Edmonton

In March 2007, Pinizzotto signed a contract with the Washington Capitals organization , becoming the first Rochester Institute of Technology player to sign a professional contract with an NHL team. In his four years in the organization of the caps , the winger was in the ECHL with the South Carolina Stingrays and with the Hershey Bears from the AHL used. In the 2008/09 season he played more often with the Bears and was able to win the AHL championship, the Calder Cup , with them. Pinizzotto was used in the play-offs in the 4th row of attacks, in which he ensured, in particular with his body game, that Jason Krog , the most successful striker of the final opponent Manitoba Moose , could not play his dangerousness in the final series. In the following season 2009/10 he was only active for the team from the Chocolate City and was able to contribute 49 points to winning the AHL championship again.

For the 2011/12 season he signed the Vancouver Canucks, where he was scheduled to replace the migrating Raffi Torres . During the final game of preparation against the San Jose Sharks , Pinizzotto injured his shoulder after a check from Douglas Murray and was then unable to play a single game of the season. The Canadian started his comeback with the farm team , the Chicago Wolves , as the NHL was not played because of the lockout . After its end, he made his debut in March 2013 in the game against the Nashville Predators in the NHL and was later used in the play-offs.

For the 2013/14 season , Pinizzotto moved to the NHL organization of the Florida Panthers , but was transferred to league rivals Edmonton Oilers during the current season . Since then, the German-Canadian has played alternately either for the Oilers in the NHL or for the Oklahoma City Barons farm team in the AHL. In November 2014, he managed the rare ice hockey feat of a Gordie Howe hat-trick in a game against his former team from Vancouver . All in all, he was assisted in his time in North America offensive assertiveness, danger at goal combined with good passing play.

Change to the DEL - 3 × champions with Munich

In May 2015, the EHC Red Bull Munich from the German Ice Hockey League announced the commitment of the right-handed shooter for the 2015/16 season , where he was number 14. In Munich he met Keith Aucoin again , with whom he was already able to celebrate successes at the Hershey Bears, was the penalty box king of the league in his first DEL season, but also the Munich team's best scorer in the play-offs, which were their first German championship celebrated. In the following season of 2016/17, in which he and his team became champion again, the German-Canadian, who had meanwhile become a public favorite, was particularly noticeable in the final series against the Grizzlys Wolfsburg with his physical effort against Sebastian Furchner . In his third season with the team from the Bavarian capital, he was able to win the championship again. Although he scored the most points (38) and the fewest penalty minutes (120) this season, a check from him in the playoff semifinals against Matthias Plachta from Adler Mannheim remained in the public eye. In the games in the subsequent final series against the Eisbären Berlin , his style of play was seen as an important part of the eventual victory and repeated title win. Overall, he was involved with 39 goals in 141 DEL games in the three German championships of the EHC Red Bull Munich.

In June 2018 he left Munich and was signed by the Kölner Haien to replace the injured Marcel Müller for the 2018/19 season . In November 2018, Pinizzotto had to undergo knee surgery and could not play any more ice hockey games during the season.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Steve Pinizzotto in the jersey of the Vancouver Canucks (2013)
Regular season Play-offs
season team league GP G A. Pts PIM GP G A. Pts PIM
2000/01 Oakville Blades OPJHL 5 2 1 3 2 - - - - -
2001/02 Oakville Blades OPJHL 34 10 16 26th 40 - - - - -
2002/03 Oakville Blades OPJHL 44 16 24 40 152 - - - - -
2003/04 Oakville Blades OPJHL 39 17th 34 51 177 - - - - -
2004/05 Oakville Blades OPJHL 48 33 62 95 86 - - - - -
2005/06 RIT Tigers NCAA 20th 7th 6th 13 32 - - - - -
2006/07 RIT Tigers AHA 34 13 31 44 76 - - - - -
2006/07 Hershey Bears AHL 5 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
2007/08 South Carolina Stingrays ECHL 40 15th 17th 32 58 10 1 2 3 34
2007/08 Hershey Bears AHL 23 0 4th 4th 12 5 0 0 0 13
2008/09 Hershey Bears AHL 45 4th 7th 11 61 21st 3 2 5 28
2008/09 South Carolina Stingrays ECHL 11 4th 6th 10 19th - - - - -
2009/10 Hershey Bears AHL 69 13 28 41 124 21st 5 3 8th 33
2010/11 Hershey Bears AHL 68 17th 25th 42 178 6th 2 2 4th 6th
2012/13 Chicago Wolves AHL 24 4th 8th 12 29 - - - - -
2012/13 Vancouver Canucks NHL 12 0 0 0 29 1 0 0 0 0
2013/14 San Antonio Rampage AHL 21st 6th 1 7th 67 - - - - -
2013/14 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 30th 6th 12 18th 116 1 0 0 0 14th
2013/14 Edmonton Oilers NHL 6th 0 2 2 15th - - - - -
2014/15 Oklahoma City Barons AHL 25th 1 10 11 117 - - - - -
2014/15 Edmonton Oilers NHL 18th 2 2 4th 30th - - - - -
2015/16 EHC Red Bull Munich DEL 42 13 5 18th 151 13 4th 12 16 66
2016/17 EHC Red Bull Munich DEL 26th 4th 13 17th 114 9 2 2 4th 49
2017/18 EHC Red Bull Munich DEL 39 13 17th 30th 100 12 3 5 8th 20th
NHL overall 36 2 4th 6th 74 1 0 0 0 0
AHL total 310 51 95 146 708 54 10 7th 17th 94

( 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

Commons : Steve Pinizzotto  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ theprovince.com Former Canuck Pinizzotto gets rare Howe trick ( Memento from December 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Sandra Loos: Ice Hockey World Cup 2019: the German squad. NHL keeper Gruber is also there. In: merkur.de. Münchner Merkur , May 17, 2019, accessed on May 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Bob Floundersoos: Pinizzottos body work helps lift Hershey past Manitoba 2: 1 in game 4. In: pennlive.com. June 8, 2009, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  4. ↑ panthers.nhl.com Panthers Agree To One-Year Contract With C Steve Pinizzotto
  5. ↑ sportsnet.ca Oilers sign center Pinizzotto to one-year-deal
  6. ↑ RECAP: Canucks 5, Oilers 4. In: nhl.com. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Hockey's future Steve Pinizzotto. In: hockeysfuture.com. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  8. ↑ redbullmuenchen.de EHC Red Bull Munich signs Steve Pinizzotto
  9. ↑ Jens Bartels: Pinizzotto - hated in Wolfsburg, adored in Munich. In: regionalsport.de. September 19, 2017. Retrieved June 11, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Arno Schmitz: Hammer penalty after brutal foul - DEL bans Eisrüpel Pinizzotto for five games. In: Berliner Kurier . March 30, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Jörg Leopold: Steven Pinizzotto and the unnecessary escalation. In: Der Tagesspiegel . March 30, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Johannes Schnitzler: The baddest of the bad boys. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . April 20, 2018, accessed June 11, 2019 .
  13. ↑ After the end of the EHC: Pinizzotto signs with the DEL competitor. In: merkur.de. June 13, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 .
  14. ↑ Kölner Haie worry about Steve Pinizzotto , Bonner Generalanzeiger , January 16, 2019, accessed on June 12, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Pinizzotto, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pinizzotto, Steven (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Mississauga , Ontario