Tom Rowe (ice hockey)

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Thomas John Rowe (born May 23, 1956 in Lynn, Massachusetts) is a retired American ice hockey player and coach.

Selected by the Washington Capitals in the 1976 NHL Entry Draft, Rowe also played for the Hartford Whalers and Detroit Red Wings. He was also a member of the United States national team at the 1977 Ice Hockey World Championships. Tom Rowe was the first American born player to score 30 or more goals in an NHL season. He accomplished this feat in the 1978–79 season with the Washington Capitals. That season he scored 31 goals in only 69 games.

Most recently, Rowe is assitant coach of the Carolina Hurricanes of the National Hockey League. Rowe previously coached the Albany River Rats and Lowell Lock Monsters. Tom Rowe won a Stanley Cup championship with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006.

[edit] External links

• Profile at hockeydraftcentral.com
• Tom Rowe (ice hockey)'s biography at Legends of Hockey