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WELL-TRAVELLED MINOR PRO

Author

compiled by Sam Laskaris

Volume

33

Issue

3

Year

2015

Casey Pierro-Zabotel has completed yet another season in the minor professional hockey ranks. (And like most of his other pro years, Pierro-Zabotel, a member of British Columbia’s Bonaparte First Nation, suited up for more than one team this season. (Pierro-Zabotel, a 26-year-old forward, began the season with the Gwinnett Gladiators, a Georgia-based team that competes in the East Coast Hockey League. He averaged more than a point per game with the Gladiators, scoring 60 points (23 goals, 37 assists) in 54 regular season contests. (Pierro-Zabotel though was traded to the Florida Everblades in mid-March. He ended up appearing in five regular season matches with the Everblades and earned four points. And then he suited up for 12 playoff contests with the Florida squad and collected six points, including four goals. (During the 2014-15 campaign Pierro-Zabotel was also called up and played three games in the American Hockey League with the Norfolk Admirals. The Admirals, who were based in Virginia this season, will be relocating to San Diego for the upcoming year. (Pierro-Zabotel had been drafted in the third round, 80th over-all, by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft. But he hasn’t played a single game in the NHL. (As a pro, he has played for nine different squads. This includes the half-season stint he had with the Lausitzer Foxes, a German franchise, during the 2013-14 season. (During his six years as a pro Pierro-Zabotel has only spent one season with just one club. That was during the 2011-12 campaign when he was a member of the California-based Bakersfield Condors of the ECHL. (Pierro-Zabotel turned pro in 2009, after spending a pair of seasons in the Western Hockey League with the Vancouver Giants.