Fred Perlini

Infobox Ice Hockey Player
league = No
position = Centre
shoots = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 2
weight_lb = 175
nickname = None
nationality = CAN
birth_date = birth date and age|1962|04|12
birth_place = Sault Ste. Marie, ON, CAN
draft = 158th overall
played_for = Toronto Maple Leafs
St. Catharines Saints
Baltimore Skipjacks
Nottingham Panthers
Fife Flyers
Deeside Dragons
Trafford Metros
Blackburn Blackhawks
Telford Tigers
Streatham Redskins
Lee Valley Lions
Basingstoke Bison
Guildford Flames
draft_year = 1980
draft_team = Toronto Maple Leafs
career_start = 1981
career_end = 1996

Fred Perlini (born April 12 1962) is a former Canadian NHL ice hockey centre from Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. He was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1980.

Junior

He began playing junior for his home town team Sault Ste. Marie Legion of the Ontario Minor Hockey Association
OMHA in 1978 scoring 107 points in just 27 games. He then moved up to the OHL to play for the Toronto Marlboros where he played for 3 years accumulating more than 200 points in just 170 games. It was in 1981 that he made history scoring a hat-trick for the Toronto Marlboros one afternoon and going on to play for and score for the Toronto Maple Leafs in the NHL the same day.

NHL career

Perlini only made eight appearances in the NHL, he scored two goals in this time and added three assists. All the games were for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He took part in 6 Maple Leafs training camps as well as one with the Pittsburgh Penguins and one with the New York Rangers.

Minor-pro career

Perlini played for four years in the AHL for the St. Catharines Saints and Baltimore Skipjacks where he notched up an impressive 140 points.

In 1986 Perlini moved to the UK to play for the Nottingham Panthers of the BHL where he spent just one season scoring an incredible 171 points in just 35 games. He continued in this rich goal-scoring form with 2 more consecutive 170 point seasons for the Fife Flyers and Deeside Dragons scoring 103 goals in each of those seasons. He went on to play 7 more seasons in the British leagues for Trafford Metros, Blackburn Hawks, Streatham Redskins, Basingstoke Beavers, Lee Valley Lions and finally playing 3 seasons for the Guildford Flames. Perlini scored more than 1400 points in British league games.

During the 2000–2001 season, his #11 shirt was retired to the rafters by the Guildford Flames for outstanding contribution to Guildford Ice Hockey while playing as well as contributions off the ice to the community and junior programs.

Non-playing career

After finishing his career in Guildford in 1996, Fred was appointed as Head of Junior Hockey, where he remained until September 2007 when he and his family returned home to Canada.In that time he coached the Guildford U10s, U12s, U14s, U16s and U19s to Southern Division Titles on various occasions.

External links

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*legendsofhockey|13959
* [http://www.gjihc.org.uk/ Guildford Junior Ice Hockey Club]