Career
Blasi is a native of Weston, Ontario. He is an alumnus of Miami University and played for the hockey team from 1990-1994, playing on Miami"s CCHA championship team in 1992-1993 and captaining the 1993-1994 team Blasi is the first Miami hockey alumnus to return to his alma mater as the head coach.
He came to Miami after working four years—three as an assistant and one as a graduate assistant—under his coach at Miami, George Gwozdecky at the University of Denver.
Blasi became head coach of his alma mater in 1999 and, at the time, was the youngest head coach in Division I college hockey.