Dominic Osman
| Dominic Osman | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
4 February 1982 Dearborn, Michigan, USA | ||
| Height | 182 cm (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position | forward and defenseman | ||
| EPIHL team | Hull Pirates | ||
| Playing career | 2000–present | ||
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Dominic Osman (born February 4, 1982) is an American professional ice hockey player who plays as a forward and also defenseman, currently player/head coach for the Hull Pirates in the EPIHL.
Dominic Osman started his professional career in 2006–07, having spent five years at Lake Superior State University. He then played for the Reading Royals in the ECHL for the remainder of the season. In his next season, he signed with the Central Hockey League's New Mexico Scorpions, where he played 60 of 64 games, scoring 47 points. In 2008–09, Osman joined the IHL (1945–2001), then the feeder league for the AHL, playing for the Fort Wayne Komets and Kalamazoo Wings. The next two years were spent back in the ECHL, playing for the Toledo Walleye and Florida Everblades. In his final season with the Walleye, he was named an alternate captain ('A').
In the 2011–12 season, coach Sylvain Cloutier recruited Osman to England to play for the Hull Stingrays in the UK's top league, the EIHL. He spent two years there, again wearing an 'A', and achieving a career high of 122 penalty minutes (PIMs). At the end of the 2012–13 season, Osman spent his off-season in Australia, playing in the AIHL for the Newcastle North Stars, who were runners-up for the Goodall Cup. Soon after his final game in Australia, he returned to the USA, where he was hired by coach Glenn Getulleo, head coach of the Huntsville Havoc of the SPHL, as a player-assistant coach. In 2014–15, Osman returned to England and the Hull Stingrays, returning to a defensive role after playing forward for at least the previous seven seasons. He had a good season on defense, scoring 34 points in 59 games. He also took on a new role with the Stingrays as sales and marketing manager. Osman left the Stingrays at the end of the season to become head coach of the Sheffield Steeldogs of the EPIHL (the second-tier English league). On June 24, two months before the season was to begin, news broke that the Hull Stingrays had gone into liquidation, leaving Kingston upon Hull without a professional hockey team for the first time in 27 years. Hours after the news about the Stingrays, the Manchester Storm took the 10th EIHL spot vacated by the Stingrays. Hull fans felt cheated and let down by the league, but there was a spot available in the EPIHL, which then had nine teams. News soon emerged that Shane Smith, owner of the Sheffield Steeldogs, and Dominic Osman had acquired the franchise for the 10th spot in the EPIHL and created the Hull Pirates. Osman became player-coach and faced the difficult task of assembling a team in a short time. The first league game was scheduled for September 12.
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