Ted Donato
Encyclopedia
Edward Paul Donato is a retired American ice hockey
player who played in the NHL
. Since he retired from professional hockey as a player in 2004, he has served as the head coach for the Harvard University hockey team.
by the Boston Bruins
. He played hockey at his high school, Catholic Memorial, before moving on to play college hockey
at Harvard University and then moving to the NHL for the 1991–92 season. He played 796 career NHL games, scoring 150 goals and 197 assists for 347 points. During his career, Donato played for the Bruins, New York Islanders
, Ottawa Senators
, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Dallas Stars
, Los Angeles Kings
, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers
.
Donato is the second professional hockey player to appear on the show The Price Is Right
(he made it to the Showcase Showdown), the first player in the NHL
to appear. Forward Christian Larrivée
of the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the ECHL
appeared, winning over $20,000 in Plinko
.
Donato is currently the head coach for the Harvard University hockey team.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
player who played in the NHL
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
. Since he retired from professional hockey as a player in 2004, he has served as the head coach for the Harvard University hockey team.
Career
Donato was selected 98th overall in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft1987 NHL Entry Draft
The 1987 NHL Entry Draft was held at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan. The National Hockey League teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the 1986–87 NHL season and playoff standings. This is the list of those players selected.-Selections...
by the Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
. He played hockey at his high school, Catholic Memorial, before moving on to play college hockey
College hockey
College hockey refers to ice hockey played between colleges with their teams composed of enrolled students. College hockey is played in Canada and the United States, though leagues outside of North America exist....
at Harvard University and then moving to the NHL for the 1991–92 season. He played 796 career NHL games, scoring 150 goals and 197 assists for 347 points. During his career, Donato played for the Bruins, New York Islanders
New York Islanders
The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
, Ottawa Senators
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, Dallas Stars
Dallas Stars
The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The...
, Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
, St. Louis Blues, and New York Rangers
New York Rangers
The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the...
.
Donato is the second professional hockey player to appear on the show The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right
The Price Is Right is a television game show franchise originally produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman, and created by Bob Stewart, and is currently produced and owned by FremantleMedia. The franchise centers on television game shows, but also includes merchandise such as video games, printed...
(he made it to the Showcase Showdown), the first player in the NHL
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
to appear. Forward Christian Larrivée
Christian Larrivée
Christian Larrivée is a professional Canadian ice hockey player.He played for Storhamar Dragons in the GET-ligaen in Norway during the 2006-07 season where he was named Most Valuable Player in the playoffs...
of the Long Beach Ice Dogs in the ECHL
ECHL
The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...
appeared, winning over $20,000 in Plinko
Plinko
Plinko is a pricing game on the American television game show The Price Is Right. The game involves guessing the prices of prizes to win "Plinko chips," which are later dropped down a large bean machine-style board to determine the contestant's cash prize...
.
Donato is currently the head coach for the Harvard University hockey team.
Awards and achievements
- NCAA Championship All-Tournament Team (1989)
- NCAA Championship Tournament MVP (1989)
- ECACECAC Hockey LeagueECAC Hockey is one of the five NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey conferences that compete in NCAA Division I ice hockey. The conference used to be affiliated with the Eastern College Athletic Conference, a consortium of over 300 colleges in the eastern United States. This relationship ended in...
First All-Star Team (1991)
Career statistics
| Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Team | League | GP | G Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
A Assist (ice hockey) In ice hockey, an assist is attributed to up to two players of the scoring team who shot, passed or deflected the puck towards the scoring teammate, or touched it in any other way which enabled the goal, meaning that they were "assisting" in the goal. There can be a maximum of two assists per goal... |
Pts Point (ice hockey) Point in ice hockey has three official meanings:* A point is awarded to a player for each goal scored or assist earned. The total number of goals plus assists equals total points. In some European leagues, a goal counts as two points, and an assist counts as one... |
PIM Penalty (ice hockey) A penalty in ice hockey is a punishment for inappropriate behavior. Most penalties are enforced by detaining the offending player within a penalty box for a set number of minutes, during which, the player can not participate in play. The offending team usually may not replace the player on the ice,... |
GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
| 1988–89 | Harvard Crimson Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey The Harvard Crimson men's ice hockey team is a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I college ice hockey program that represents Harvard University. The Crimson are a member of ECAC Hockey. They play at the Bright Hockey Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts... |
ECAC | 34 | 14 | 37 | 51 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1989–90 | Harvard Crimson | ECAC | 16 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1990–91 | Harvard Crimson | ECAC | 28 | 19 | 37 | 56 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1991–92 | Boston Bruins Boston Bruins The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the... |
NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... |
10 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 4 | ||
| 1992–93 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 82 | 15 | 20 | 35 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 1993–94 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 84 | 22 | 32 | 54 | 59 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 10 | ||
| 1994–95 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 47 | 10 | 10 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | ||
| 1994–95 | TuTo Turku | FNL SM-liiga The SM-liiga is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. As of March 2008, it is ranked by the IIHF as the second strongest league in Europe. It was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was fundamentally an amateur league. The SM-liiga is not directly overseen by the Finnish Ice... |
14 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1995–96 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 82 | 23 | 26 | 49 | 46 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | ||
| 1996–97 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 67 | 25 | 26 | 51 | 37 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1997–98 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 79 | 16 | 23 | 39 | 54 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
| 1998–99 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 14 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | New York Islanders New York Islanders The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in Uniondale, New York. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League... |
NHL | 55 | 7 | 11 | 18 | 27 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 1998–99 | Ottawa Senators Ottawa Senators The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League... |
NHL | 13 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1999–00 | Anaheim Ducks Anaheim Ducks The Anaheim Ducks are a professional ice hockey team based in Anaheim, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League... |
NHL | 81 | 11 | 19 | 30 | 26 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2000–01 | Dallas Stars Dallas Stars The Dallas Stars are a professional ice hockey team based in Dallas, Texas. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The team was founded during the 1967 NHL expansion as the Minnesota North Stars, based in Bloomington, Minnesota. The... |
NHL | 65 | 8 | 17 | 25 | 26 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 2001–02 AHL season The 2001–02 AHL season was the 66th season of the American Hockey League. It was the season of the biggest growth in the AHL's history, as it accepted eight new teams. The demise of the International Hockey League brought six teams transferring from the defunct league, in addition to two expansion... |
Bridgeport Sound Tigers Bridgeport Sound Tigers The Bridgeport Sound Tigers are an ice hockey team playing in the American Hockey League. It has been the AHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's New York Islanders, who also own the franchise, since its inception, and use the same team colors as the parent Islanders do. The team is based in... |
AHL American Hockey League The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League... |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001–02 | New York Islanders | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001–02 | Los Angeles Kings Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League... |
NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2001–02 2001–02 AHL season The 2001–02 AHL season was the 66th season of the American Hockey League. It was the season of the biggest growth in the AHL's history, as it accepted eight new teams. The demise of the International Hockey League brought six teams transferring from the defunct league, in addition to two expansion... |
Manchester Monarchs Manchester Monarchs The Manchester Monarchs are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League . They play in Manchester, New Hampshire at the Verizon Wireless Arena. They have been the AHL affiliate of the Los Angeles Kings since 2001.-History:... |
AHL | 36 | 18 | 25 | 43 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | ||
| 2001–02 | St. Louis Blues | NHL | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 2002–03 AHL season The 2002–03 AHL season was the 67th season of the American Hockey League. Twenty-eight teams played 80 games each in the schedule. The Hamilton Bulldogs finished first overall in the regular season... |
Hartford Wolf Pack Hartford Wolf Pack The Connecticut Whale is a professional ice hockey team based in Hartford, Connecticut. They play in the American Hockey League . They play their home games at the XL Center.... |
AHL | 18 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 14 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 | New York Rangers New York Rangers The New York Rangers are a professional ice hockey team based in the borough of Manhattan in New York, New York, USA. They are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . Playing their home games at Madison Square Garden, the Rangers are one of the... |
NHL | 49 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 63 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2003–04 2003–04 AHL season The 2003–04 AHL season was the 68th season of the American Hockey League. The league introduces the Willie Marshall Award in honour the career points leader in the AHL, and awards it to the annual top goal scorer.... |
Providence Bruins Providence Bruins The Providence Bruins are an ice hockey team in the American Hockey League, and are the primary development team for the NHL's Boston Bruins. They play in Providence, Rhode Island at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.-History:... |
AHL | 15 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| NHL totals | 796 | 150 | 197 | 347 | 396 | 58 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 22 | ||||
| NCAA totals | 78 | 38 | 80 | 118 | 90 | 58 | 8 | 10 | 18 | 22 | ||||
| AHL totals | 70 | 29 | 46 | 75 | 54 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | ||||
Coaching statistics
| Regular season | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Team | League | GP | W | L | T | Win % | |
| 2004–05 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 34 | 21 | 10 | 3 | 0.662 | |
| 2005–06 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 35 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 0.629 | |
| 2006–07 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 33 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 0.455 | |
| 2007–08 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 34 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 0.614 | |
| 2008–09 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 33 | 9 | 16 | 6 | 0.387 | |
| 2009–10 | Harvard University | ECAC/NCAA | 33 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 0.455 | |
| NCAA totals | 202 | 96 | 85 | 19 | 0.522 | |||