Patrick Curcio (born September 6, 1973) is a Canadian-Italian professional ice hockey coach, executive and former professional ice hockey player. Pat is now a Partner with Optima World Sports
Playing career Curcio played professionally in the East Coast Hockey League for the Dayton Bombers, Charlotte Checkers and Huntsville Blast and in the Colonial Hockey League for the Saginaw Wheels and Brantford Smoke.
In 1995, Curcio signed with the HC Devils Milano of Italy and had stints in the Swiss NLB with SC Herisau and in Germany in the following years. He played a total of 133 games for the Hannover Scorpions in the German top-flight Deutsche Eishockey League (DEL) and spent time with German minor league teams EV Ravensburg and ESV Bayreuth.
Coaching and managing career He began his career behind the bench in 2001. In the 2006–07 season, he served as head coach of the Pickering Panthers of the Ontario Junior Hockey League. From 2007 to 2009, Curcio served as assistant coach of OHL's London Knights, followed by assistant coach stints with the Utah Grizzlies (ECHL) and the Sault Sainte Marie Greyhounds (OHL).
In 2009, he organized the Euro Can Cup in London, Ontario, that included teams like EV Zug of Switzerland, EHC München of Germany and EHC Linz of Austria.
He was the Founder, President, General Manager and Head Coach of the former San Francisco Bulls Professional Hockey Team. Curcio, along with his wife Elouise, brought professional hockey back to San Francisco, when they were granted a team in the ECHL in 2011. A year later, the Bulls debuted on October 12, 2012 to a capacity crowd of 8,277 at the Cow Palace. The Bulls were the farm team of the NHL San Jose Sharks. The Bulls folded on January 27, 2014.
In the 2014-15 campaign, he was the head coach of Hockey Milano Rossoblu in the Serie A in Italy. He started the 2015–16 season as head coach of fellow Italian Serie A team HC Valpellice, but left in November 2015 to take the position as assistant coach of HC Lugano in the Swiss top-tier National League A (NLA). Curcio was promoted to Associate coach in September 2016. He has helped the team advance to 3 finals in 2 years: 2 silver Medals at Spengler Cup and the NLA Championship finals in 2016. He and head coach Doug Shedden were sacked by HCL on January 16, 2017.
In June 2017, the Italian-based EBEL Team Hockey Club Bolzano hired Curcio as head coach for the 2016–2017 season. He parted company with the club in late November 2017.
Rehired in March 2018 by Hockey Club Bolzano to help sign the team for the 2018–2019 season as a special consultant to the GM, Curcio left the position in June 2018 to become a full time partner with Optima World Sports.
Pat Curcio is now a partner with Optima World Sports. For over 25 years, Optima has been representing Hockey Players in all of Europe, Asia and the KHL.
Early career
Statistics
Regular season Playoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1991–92 Ottawa 67's OHL 201340 80114 1992–93 Dallas Freeze CHL 3212172937 ————— 1992–93 Prince Albert Raiders WHL 10000 ————— 1993–94 Dayton Bombers ECHL 111235 ————— 1993–94 Charlotte Checkers ECHL 31010 ————— 1993–94 Huntsville Blast ECHL 13191016 31012 1994–95 Saginaw Wheels CoHL 3012152720 ————— 1994–95 Brantford Smoke CoHL 101344 ————— 1995–96 Milan Devils Italy 3212395128 ————— 1996–97 Wedemark Scorpions DEL 25281016 ————— 1996–97 Ravensburg EV Ger.1 209142361 ————— 1997–98 Hannover Scorpions DEL 434141824 ————— 1998–99 Hannover Scorpions DEL 473131665 ————— 2001–02 Bayreuth ESV GerObL 40330 —————
Coaching career overview Source: 2003-2004 Wexford Raiders AAA Asst Coach 2004-2005 Wexford Raiders AAA Head Coach 2005-2006 Toronto Redwings AAA Head Coach 2006–2007 Pickering Panthers Head Coach (OPJHL) 2007–2008 London Knights) Asst Coach 2008–2009 London Knights (OHL)* Asst Coach 2009–2010 Utah Grizzlies (ECHL)Asst Coch 2010–2011 Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (OHL)Asst Coach 2012–2013 San Francisco Bulls GM/ Head Coach (ECHL) San Jose Sharks affiliate NHL 2013–2014 San Francisco Bulls GM/ Head Coach (ECHL) San Jose Sharks affiliate NHL 2014–2015 Hockey Milano Rossoblu Serie A Head Coach (voted by fans coach of the year) 2015 HC Valpellice Bulldogs (left Nov,1. 2015) Serie A Head Coach 2015-2016 HC Lugano NLA Asst. Coach 2016-2017 HC Lugano NLA Asst Coach 2017- current HC Bolzano EBEL Head Coach
See also San Francisco Bulls Cow Palace London Knights
References
External links SFBulls.com Pat Curcio: big-league determination No bull: these things really happened Bulls by the horns: S.F. embraces hockey