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Esposito 2006 scores world championship goal
The stick used by Angelo Esposito 2006 to score the winning goal for Canada in the World Junior Championship title win against Sweden January 5 will hang in the Hockey Hall of Fame forever.
By Richard Wills, Publications Editor
The stick used by Angelo Esposito 2006 to score the winning goal for Canada in the World Junior Championship title win against Sweden January 5 will hang in the Hockey Hall of Fame forever.
This may come as something of a vindication for the 19-year-old, who plays for the Montreal Juniors in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, having been cut from the Team Canada lineup the past three years.
After attending Middle School at Selwyn House, Angelo (no relation to Hall-Of-Famers Phil and Tony) attended high school in Minnesota. He turned in a 98-point rookie season with the Quebec Remparts of the QMJHL in 2005-2006, scoring in the first shift of his first game and going on to be named Rookie of the Year and draw comparisons to an earlier member of the Remparts: Guy Lafleur.
As an NHL prospect, he was picked 20th overall by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and was traded to the Atlanta Thrashers in 2008. In the QMJHL he was traded from the Remparts to the Montreal Juniors in the off-season later that year.
Angelo won a gold medal as captain of Team Quebec in the 2006 World U-17 Hockey Challenge, later winning gold again as captain of Team Canada in the 2006 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament.
After three years on the sidelines of the Junior Worlds, he made the team for the 2009 Championships in Ottawa, where he racked up 4 points in 6 games and scored the second goal in a 5-1 win over Sweden to take the team to its fifth-straight Gold Medal.
