Luca Zanatta

Luca Zanatta
Born (1991-05-15) 15 May 1991
Pieve di Cadore, Italy
Height 6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight 198 lb (90 kg; 14 st 2 lb)
Position Defence
Shoots Left
ICEHL team
Former teams		 HC Pustertal Wölfe
SG Cortina
Genève-Servette HC
National team  Italy
Playing career 2008–present

Luca Elia Zanatta[1] (born 31 May 1989) is an Italian–Swiss professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for HC Pustertal Wölfe of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He is also a member of the Italian national team.

Playing career

He started in the juvenile hockey team HC Lugano, where his father has been assistant coach and suddenly coach of the first team.[2]

After the sportive debut in the Swiss 1. Liga with the Hockey Club Ceresio, in 2009 he returned to Italy, where he enrolled the SG Cortina for five seasons, winning the 2011-2012 Italian Cup.[3] In February 2012, he had an accident that obliged him to a period of medical rehabilitation.[4]

For the years 2014-2015, he come back to Switzerland, where he and his brother Michael signed a contract with the HC Red Ice, playing in the Swiss League.[5] The following season, because the Red Ice Martigny had lost the playoffs he was to the Genève-Servette HC, starting to play in the National League.[6]

After the elimination of the Martigny during the playoffs, Zanatta signed a two-year contract with the EHC Olten.[7][8]

International play

In 2014, he started on playing with the Italian National Team.[3] The next year, he participated at the 2015 First Division World Cup in Poland.[9] In 2017, he participated to the IIHF World Championship.[10]

References

  1. ^ "Luca Elia ZANATTA". MilanoCortina2026.CONI.it. Retrieved 11 February 2026.
  2. ^ "Ivano Zanatta Team Staff History". eliteprospects.com (in Swedish and English). Retrieved 20 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ^ a b "Luca Zanatta career statistics". eliteprospects.com (in Swedish and English). Retrieved 23 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ^ "Hockey Cortina: infortunio extrasportivo alla gamba per Luca Zanatta". 14 February 2012. Retrieved 20 September 2018. «He was at dinner in a mountain shelter, together with other team companions. A the end of the dinner, going out with a sledge, he had that accident. Perhaps, those are things that happen.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  5. ^ "Michele e Luca Zanatta al Martigny". rsi.ch. 8 May 2014. Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  6. ^ "HC Red Ice's Luca Zanatta joins Genève-Servette HC via B-License". 16 March 2016. Archived from the original on 18 August 2016. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  7. ^ "Olten verpflichtet Luca Zanatta" (in German). 10 March 2017. Archived from the original on 9 November 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  8. ^ Tony Puma (10 March 2017). "Luca Zanatta all'Olten" (in Italian). Retrieved 20 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  9. ^ "Nazionale: il roster definitivo per i mondiali". hockeytime.net (in Italian). 15 April 2015. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
  10. ^ "2017 World Championship roster" (PDF). IIHF. Archived (PDF) from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 20 September 2018.
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