Career
He is currently playing for Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Lashoff was selected by the Boston Bruins in the 1st round (22nd overall) of the 2005 National Hockey League Entry Draft. He is the older brother of Detroit Red Wings defenseman Brian Lashoff.
Lashoff prepped at Avon Old Farms School in Avon, Connecticut under famed coach John T. Gardner.
He was drafted by the Boston Bruins in the first round, 22nd overall, in the 2005 National Hockey League Entry Draft. After playing three seasons in the Ontario Hockey League with the Kitchener Rangers, Lashoff made his professional debut at the end of the 2005-2006 season with the Bruins" American Hockey League affiliate, the Providence Bruins.
Lashoff made his National Hockey League debut with the Boston Bruins in the 2006-2007 season on October 26, 2006. Lashoff scored his first National Hockey League goal December 31, 2007, against Kari Lehtonen of the Atlanta Thrashers.
On April 4, 2007, Lashoff was named to the.
On March 4, 2009, at the trade deadline for the 2008-2009 season, Lashoff was traded by the Bruins, along with Mārtiņš Karsums, to the Tampa Bay Lightning for Mark Recchi and a 2009 second round draft pick. On August 27, 2010, Lashoff was traded by the Lightning to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for Alex Berry and Stefano Giliati. On August 3, 2012, as a free agent, Lashoff signed a try-out contract with European team, ZSC Lions of the Swiss National Lawyers Association . After two and a half years abroad in Sweden and Russia, Lashoff left Metallurg Novokuznetsk of the Kontinental Hockey League mid-year in the 2014-2015 season, to return to North America to sign an AHL contract for the remainder of the campaign with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on January 12, 2015.
Lashoff appeared in just 11 games with the Tigers before he was traded to the Portland Pirates in exchange for Dyson Stevenson on March 3, 2015.
On February 2, 2016, Lashoff inked a contract for the remainder of the 2015-2016 season with Adler Mannheim of the German top flight Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). Lashoff is also a musician.
He released his debut album titled "Living on Heart" on May 17, 2011. “Living on Heart” was recorded over a month in the summer of 2010, at various studios in New Jersey and New York, during Lashoff"s off season.
Producer Loren Harriet approached Lashoff after seeing a segment about his music career on the New England Sports Network channel.
Lashoff was surprised by the opportunity and explains, “I didn"t think was serious at first he was helping me choose my band which was like an all star team of some of the best studio musicians.” Lashoff says his debut album is “bluesy with a popular influence” and cites artists such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, B.B. King and Kenny Wayne Shepherd as his inspiration. "A lot of people ask me how do you separate the two, but they"ve always been a part of my lifestyle. When we were kids we would play hockey before school and then after school till it got too dark and our mom told us to come in, then we would eat, play around on the guitar and write songs,” says Lashoff.
He is now planning a second album with a different sound, that will be “more groove based and not so poppy." 2003-2004 OHL Second All-Rookie Team.