Sergio Momesso
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Sergio Momesso (b. September 4, 1965 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) was an ice hockey player in the National Hockey League. He was drafted 27th overall in 1983 by his hometown Montreal Canadiens and played junior hockey for the Shawinigan Cataractes of the QMJHL.
Momesso made his NHL debut as a 19-year-old, playing one game for the Habs in 1983-84. He went back to junior, where he used his size (6'3") and two-way skills at left wing to score 100+ points in each of the next two seasons, as well as rack up 200+ penalty minutes each season.
In 1985, Momesso made the Habs' roster out of training camp, and meshed well on a line with Brian Skrudland and Mike McPhee. He suffered a knee injury in December of 1985 against the Boston Bruins that shelved him for the rest of the season; it also cost him an opportunity to engrave his name on the Stanley Cup as Montreal went on to win that season.
After two more seasons in Montreal, Momesso was traded to the St. Louis Blues on August 9, 1988 - the same day that Wayne Gretzky was traded from the Edmonton Oilers. His highest-scoring NHL season was 1989-90, when he spent most of the season on a line with sniper Brett Hull and assist machine Adam Oates, scoring 56 points.
From there, Momesso went to the Vancouver Canucks, where he made the Stanley Cup Finals for the only time in 1993-94, losing to the New York Rangers. He played short stints for the Toronto Maple Leafs and Rangers, before closing out his NHL career with a return to St. Louis in 1996-97.
After his NHL retirement, Momesso played a few seasons in Germany. He returned to North America to act as an assistant coach at Concordia University and for Shawinigan.
Momesso's family owns a very popular restaurant in Montreal's Notre-Dame-de-Grâce district and Sergio has opened his own restaurant, Caffe Momesso.
Categories: 1965 births | Living people | Canadian ice hockey players | Deutsche Eishockey-Liga players | Italian Canadians | Montreal Canadiens players | New York Rangers players | Nova Scotia Voyageurs players | Shawinigan Cataractes alumni | St. Louis Blues players | Toronto Maple Leafs players | Vancouver Canucks players
