Tom Sestito

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Tom Sestito
Date of birth September 28, 1987
place of birth Rome , New York , USA
size 193 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2006 , 3rd round, 85th position
Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
2004-2007 Plymouth Whalers
2007-2011 Columbus Blue Jackets
Syracuse Crunch
Springfield Falcons
2011-2013 Philadelphia Flyers
Adirondack Phantoms
2013-2015 Vancouver Canucks
Utica Comets
2015-2018 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins
2016-2018 Pittsburgh Penguins
since 2018 Toronto Marlies

Tom Sestito (born September 28, 1987 in Rome , New York ) is an Italian - American ice hockey player . The left winger has been under contract with the Toronto Marlies from the American Hockey League since December 2018 . Before that, he played a total of 155 games for the Columbus Blue Jackets , Philadelphia Flyers , Vancouver Canucks and Pittsburgh Penguins in the National Hockey League . Mainly, however , the Enforcer was used in the American Hockey League. His brother Tim is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Sestito began his career with Plymouth Whalers from the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), where he played in a team with his older brother Tim Sestito in the 2004/05 season . After two seasons in the OHL Tom Sestito was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2006 in the third round as a total of 85th player from the Columbus Blue Jackets . The offensive player then completed another season in the Ontario Hockey League, at the end of which he won the J. Ross Robertson Cup with the Plymouth Whalers and thereby earned a participation in the 2007 Memorial Cup with his team . In this tournament, the Whalers were eliminated in the semifinals against the eventual Memorial Cup winner Vancouver Giants . Tom Sestito was the most successful points collector of the competition with seven scorer points in five games together with Milan Lucic and Michal Řepík .

Then Sestito switched to the organization of the Blue Jackets. In the following three and a half years, however, the left shooter only made 13 appearances for the franchise from the US state of Ohio . Most of the time Tom Sestito spent with the Columbus Blue Jackets farm teams in the American Hockey League (AHL), Syracuse Crunch and Springfield Falcons . On February 28, 2011, the Blue Jackets transferred him to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Greg Moore and Michael Chaput . Sestito played for the Adirondack Phantoms in the AHL for the rest of the season . In the 2011/12 season he was first used for the Flyers in the NHL. After 14 games for Philadelphia, he tore a muscle in his groin in February 2012, which meant that he had to suspend the game for the remainder of the regular season .

On March 1, 2013, Sestito , who was on the waiver list, was selected by the Vancouver Canucks . There he was an integral part of the NHL squad in the 2013/14 season and made 70 appearances. In the following season, however, the attacker received almost no more time with the Canucks and was instead given to the Utica Comets in the AHL. After he had not played a game there since the end of January 2015, although he was operational, the Canucks announced in late February that Sestito would no longer be active for either of the two teams. Sestito should continue to receive his salary until the end of the contract and then look for a new club.

He did this in August 2015 when he signed a professional tryout contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins until the start of the season. In the NHL squad, however, he was unable to establish himself, so he was committed in October 2015 by the Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins , the AHL farm team of the Pittsburgh Penguins. There he was so convincing that the Pittsburgh Penguins signed him for a year in February 2016. This contract was subsequently extended for another year before he declared his active career to end in the summer of 2018. In December 2018 he returned to professional business in the Toronto Marlies jersey from the AHL.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2004/05 Plymouth Whalers OHL 35 1 3 4th 88 - - - - -
2005/06 Plymouth Whalers OHL 57 10 10 20th 176 13 5 2 7th 29
2006/07 Plymouth Whalers OHL 60 42 22nd 64 135 19th 11 6th 17th 57
2007 Plymouth Whalers Memorial Cup 5 2 5 7th 6th
2007/08 Syracuse crunch AHL 66 7th 16 23 202 9 3 0 3 57
2007/08 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 1 0 0 0 17th - - - - -
2008/09 Syracuse crunch AHL 52 8th 12 20th 168 - - - - -
2009/10 Syracuse crunch AHL 36 10 7th 17th 138 - - - - -
2009/10 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 3 0 0 0 7th - - - - -
2010/11 Springfield Falcons AHL 46 11 21st 32 192 - - - - -
2010/11 Columbus Blue Jackets NHL 9 2 2 4th 40 - - - - -
2010/11 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 11 2 1 3 45 - - - - -
2011/12 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 34 9 9 18th 120 - - - - -
2011/12 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 14th 0 1 1 83 - - - - -
2012/13 Sheffield Steelers EIHL 11 7th 6th 13 60 - - - - -
2012/13 Adirondack Phantoms AHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2012/13 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 7th 2 0 2 12 - - - - -
2012/13 Vancouver Canucks NHL 23 1 0 1 53 1 0 0 0 2
2013/14 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 5 4th 9 213 - - - - -
2014/15 Utica Comets AHL 10 1 0 1 20th - - - - -
2014/15 Vancouver Canucks NHL 3 0 1 1 7th - - - - -
2015/16 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 41 5 9 14th 104 7th 1 3 4th 52
2015/16 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 4th 0 1 1 19th - - - - -
2016/17 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 33 6th 10 16 121 5 1 0 1 13
2016/17 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 13 0 2 2 48 - - - - -
2017/18 Wilkes-Barre / Scranton Penguins AHL 37 6th 9 15th 95 1 0 0 0 0
2018/19 Toronto Marlies AHL 13 1 1 2 42 - - - - -
OHL total 152 53 35 88 399 32 16 8th 24 86
AHL total 380 66 94 160 1249 21st 5 3 8th 122
NHL overall 154 10 11 21st 499 1 0 0 0 2

( 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 : Tom Sestito  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Blue Jackets Acquire Forwards Greg Moore, Michael Chaput from Philadelphia Flyers in Exchange for Forward Tom Sestito. Columbus Blue Jackets , February 28, 2011, accessed May 6, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Adam Kimelman: Luongo's back on track, and so are Canucks. National Hockey League , February 19, 2012, accessed May 6, 2012 .
  3. ^ Lindsay Kramer: Rome native Tom Sestito's career with Vancouver Canucks is over. syracuse.com, February 23, 2015, accessed March 4, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Sestito, Tom
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sestito, Tommy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Rome , New York