Tom O'Regan

Tom O'Regan
Date of birth	December 29, 1961
place of birth	Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA
size	180 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
number	#8th
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1979-1983	Boston University
1983-1986	Pittsburgh Penguins
1986-1987	Adirondack Red Wings
1987-1989	EV Landshut
1989-1998	BSC Prussia

Thomas Patrick O'Regan (born December 29, 1961 in Cambridge , Massachusetts ) is a former American ice hockey player who, among other things, was active for the Pittsburgh Penguins from the National Hockey League and later became one of the best strikers and defenders in the ice hockey Bundesliga and the German Ice Hockey League counted.

His sons Tommy and Danny played ice hockey at university level in the United States, and Danny went on to become a professional player.

Career

After several seasons at Boston University , with whom he played in the US college league ECAC hockey , he got his first professional contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins in the summer of 1983. Those in charge of the penguins used the left-handed shooters mainly in their farm team at the time , the Baltimore Skipjacks , in the American Hockey League . Overall, he completed in the three seasons that he was under contract in Pittsburgh , 62 league games and scored 17 points scorer. He then joined the Adirondack Red Wings , the Detroit Red Wings ' farm team at the time , for the 1986/87 season , before moving to Germany for the following season in the summer of 1987 to EV Landshut in what was then the top German division, the Bundesliga .

After another season in Landshut, he moved to BSC Prussia . There he formed for two seasons together with Dave Silk one of the most successful storm duos in the club's history, the so-called Boston Brothers : Together they both got 249 points in a total of 90 games. Only after Silks departure before the start of the season 1991/92 belonged Our man from Boston , as he was known by the fans, due to its dreaded the enemy's hardness as his offensive style for years among the most effective defenders of the league even after the introduction of the DEL . Until the end of his career after the 1997/98 season he played in Berlin for the Prussians or, after their renaming in 1995, for the Preussen Devils , and since 1996 for the Berlin Capitals .

In the national team of the USA he came to several missions, including at the ice hockey world championship in 1995

DEL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Main round	4th	178	35	117	152	194
Playoffs	2	15th	5	11	16	28

Web links

• Tom O'Regan at hockeydb.com (English)
• Tom O'Regan at eurohockey.com
• Tom O'Regan at legendsofhockey.net (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Final Beanpot for Hockey's Danny O'Regan | BU Today | Boston University. In: BU Today. Retrieved April 2, 2016 .