Rich Costello

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| image =

| image_size = 230px

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|6|27}}

| birth_place = Framingham, Massachusetts, U.S.

| height_ft = 6

| height_in = 0

| weight_lb = 175

| position = Center

| shoots = Right

| played_for = Toronto Maple Leafs
Schwenninger ERC

| ntl_team = USA

| draft = 37th overall

| draft_year = 1981

| draft_team = Philadelphia Flyers

| career_start = 1984

| career_end = 1990

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Richard Anthony Costello (born June 27, 1963) is an American former professional ice hockey player.[http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-sports/article/Just-like-Slap-Shot-Remembering-the-Albany-6829024.php "Just like 'Slap Shot': Remembering the Albany Choppers hockey team"] Albany Times Union. Retrieved 2016-07-21. He played 12 games in the National Hockey League with the Toronto Maple Leafs between 1984 and 1986. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1983 to 1991, was mainly spent in the minor leagues.

Biography

As a youth, Costello played in the 1976 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Boston.{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-01-12}}

He was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in 1981 NHL Entry Draft, but traded to the Toronto Maple Leafs in 1982 for Darryl Sittler.[http://www.torontosun.com/2015/09/15/ex-leafs-gm-gerry-mcnamara-ballard-passed-on-quinn-lamoriello-as-coach "Ex-Leafs GM Gerry McNamara: Ballard passed on Quinn, Lamoriello as coach"] Toronto Sun. Retrieved 2016-07-21. Costello was born in Framingham, Massachusetts, but grew up in Natick, Massachusetts.

Costello spent part of the 1983-84 season with the United States National Team. He spent the following three years in the Leafs organisation, in which he played a total of 12 games in the NHL, but spent most of his time in the American Hockey League. He later played professionally in Finland, Germany and Switzerland.

Career statistics

=Regular season and playoffs=

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bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"\| ! colspan="5"\|Playoffs
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM
1977–78 \| Natick High School \| HS-MA \| —	—	—	—	— \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1978–79 \| Natick High School \| HS-MA \| 18	26	32	58	— \| —	—	—	—	—
1979–80 \| Natick High School \| HS-MA \| 18	30	36	66	— \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1980–81 \| Pickering Panthers \| MetJBHL \| 40	18	24	42	35 \| —	—	—	—	—
1981–82 \| Providence College \| ECAC \| 32	11	16	27	39 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1982–83 \| Providence College \| ECAC \| 43	19	26	45	60 \| —	—	—	—	—
1983–84 \| Toronto Maple Leafs \| NHL \| 10	2	1	3	2 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1983–84 \| St. Catharines Saints \| AHL \| 20	0	0	0	12 \| 4	1	0	1	0
1983–84 \| American National Team \| Intl \| 38	7	19	26	31 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1984–85 \| St. Catharines Saints \| AHL \| 80	8	6	14	45 \| —	—	—	—	—
1985–86 \| Toronto Maple Leafs \| NHL \| 2	0	1	1	9 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1985–86 \| St. Catharines Saints \| AHL \| 76	18	22	40	87 \| 13	3	6	9	30
1986–87 \| Newmarket Saints \| AHL \| 48	6	11	17	53 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1987–88 \| SaiPa \| FIN-2 \| 26	10	11	21	46 \| —	—	—	—	—
1987–88 \| Utica Devils \| AHL \| 3	1	1	2	2 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1988–89 \| Schwenninger ERC \| GER \| 11	6	8	14	14 \| —	—	—	—	—
1989–90 \| EC Ratingen \| GER-2 \| 29	26	30	56	26 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#f0f0f0" \| 1989–90 \| HC Davos \| NLB \| 7	4	11	15	4 \| —	—	—	—	—
1990–91 \| Albany Choppers \| IHL \| 9	1	3	4	14 \| —	—	—	—	—
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| AHL totals ! 227 !! 33 !! 40 !! 73 !! 199 ! 17 !! 4 !! 6 !! 10 !! 30
bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" \| NHL totals ! 12 !! 2 !! 2 !! 4 !! 2 ! — !! — !! — !! — !! —