Dave Siciliano

David John Siciliano (born July 7, 1946) is a Canadian former ice hockey coach and player. He played university hockey for the Lakehead Nor'Westers, and led them to the International Collegiate Hockey Association championship as the most valuable player in the 1966–67 season. As the player-coach for the Thunder Bay Twins, his team won both the United States Hockey League (USHL) playoffs and the 1975 Allan Cup as the Canadian senior champions. He served as head coach of the Thunder Bay Flyers from 1986 to 1993, where he won four regular season titles, and two playoffs championships, and two Centennial Cups as Canadian junior champions. He was a coach for the Canada men's under-18 team at the Phoenix Cup in 1987 and 1991, and for the Canada men's junior team which won gold at the 1993 World Juniors.

Thunder Bay connections

Dave Siciliano (David John Siciliano) was born on July 7, 1946, in Fort William, into a family of Italian Canadians. He began playing minor hockey at age 13, attended Westgate Collegiate & Vocational Institute where he played hockey, baseball and football, won the 1963 juvenile championship as a pitcher in the Lakehead Baseball Association, and played junior hockey with the Fort William Canadiens before graduating high school in 1966. He played three seasons of university hockey for the Lakehead Nor'Westers from 1966 to 1969, coached by Hank Akervall on the "S-line" with Dwight Stirrett and Murray Smith, earned a Bachelor of Arts in English from Lakehead University in 1969, and played summer baseball for the Gateway Builders in the Lakehead Baseball Association senior league. He went on to play senior hockey for the Fort William Beavers in 1969–70, and held numerous local coaching roles including player-coach of the Thunder Bay Twins (winning the United States Hockey League championship and the 1975 Allan Cup), coach of the Thunder Bay Hurricanes, athletic director and hockey coach at [[Lak