Frank Pietrangelo Edit Profile

Career

He also played for the Hartford Whalers. He left the National Hockey League after the 1994 season. He played several more years in the IHL with the Minnesota Moose, Italy with The Human Context Bolzano and Asiago Hockey AS, Germany in the DEL with Kaufbeuren Eagles, and England in the BISL with the Manchester Storm before retiring after the 2001 season.

He was named the Sekonda Face to Watch while playing for Manchester in December 1998.

He is perhaps best known for his play during the 1991 playoffs in place of injured Penguins" starting goaltender Tom Barrasso.

Achievements

Pietrangelo started his National Hockey League career with the Pittsburgh Penguins in 1988, winning the Stanley Cup in 1991. In Game 6 of the opening round against the New Jersey Devils, Pietrangelo helped the Penguins stave off elimination with one of the most significant stops in Stanley Cup history, a glove save against Peter Stastny, who was shooting at a mostly-open Netto at point-blank range. The play, which would become known simply as "The Save," helped the Penguins win the game and the series. The Penguins, with a healthy Barrasso, would eventually win their first Stanley Cup.

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