Steve Thornton

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Position	Centre
Shoots	Left
Height Weight	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) 185 lb (84 kg/13 st 3 lb)
EIHL Team F. teams	Belfast Giants Cardiff Devils London Knights Basingstoke Bison
Nationality	Canada
Born	November 14, 1982 (1982-11-14) (age 25), Toronto, ON, CAN
Pro career	1995 – present

Steve Thornton (born March 8, 1973 in Gloucester, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey player who is the current head coach of the Belfast Giants of the Elite Ice Hockey League.

Apart from playing junior hockey with the Gloucester Rangers, college hockey with Boston University and one season in the International Hockey League with the Peoria Rivermen, Thornton's career has been played in Europe. He has single season spells in Austria with Klagenfurt and in Germany's Deutsche Eishockey-Liga with the Adler Mannheim before moving to the United Kingdom, spending five seasons with the Cardiff Devils. He also had spells with the London Knights and the Belfast Giants where he won the playoff cup in 2003. He then moved to Italy, spending two seasons with Bruneck SG and the had spells in Switzerland and Sweden before returning to Britain, joined the Basingstoke Bison.

On April 7, 2008, Thornton was confirmed as the new head coach of the Belfast Giants, replacing Ed Courtenay.

[edit] External links

• Steve Thornton's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database