Pensacola Ice Pilots name Rick Adduono head coach
Published on September 6, 2005 under ECHL (ECHL)
Pensacola Ice Pilots News Release
Pensacola, Fla. - The Pensacola Ice Pilots Hockey Club is pleased to announce today the appointment of Rick Adduono as the hockey club's new head coach.
Adduono, 51, spent last season as the head coach of the Port Huron Beacons of the United Hockey League after spending the six previous seasons in the ECHL as the head coach of the Greensboro Generals and South Carolina Stingrays
"Rick has a very successful record as a head coach and brings a tremendous amount coaching experience to the Ice Pilots." said Ice Pilots owner Mario Forgione. "He understands the requirements needed to build a competitive team and we believe that he's the individual to lead the team toward our goal of bringing a Kelly Cup Championship to Pensacola."
The Fort William Ont., native posted a 238-145-45 record and 25 playoff wins in six seasons behind the bench as an ECHL head coach and is seventh all time in career games coached with 428. In the 2000-2001 season he led the South Carolina Stingrays to a Kelly Cup Championship by defeating the Trentan Titans in five games. Adduono, with four seasons of 40 or more wins, returns to the ECHL with a regular-season winning percentage of .609 and having reached the Kelly Cup playoffs in each season.
Originally drafted 60th overall in the 1975 NHL Amateur Draft by the Boston Bruins, Adduono played five seasons in the American Hockey League and one season in the World Hockey Association.
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