Don Rigazio
| Don Rigazio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
July 3, 1934 Cambridge, MA, USA | ||
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (178 cm) | ||
| Weight | 161 lb (73 kg; 11 st 7 lb) | ||
| Position | Goaltender | ||
| Caught | Left | ||
| Played for |
Indianapolis Chiefs Louisville Rebels Cleveland Barons | ||
| National team |
 United States | ||
| Playing career | 1958–1960 | ||
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Medal record | |||
Donald Edmund Rigazio (born July 3, 1934) is a former American ice hockey goaltender who was a member of the silver medal-winning United States team in ice hockey at the 1956 Winter Olympics.[1]
Rigazio played for the United States men's national ice hockey team for three seasons, from 1954 to 1958. He was named best goaltender of the 1955 World Ice Hockey Championships. Rigazio then turned professional, playing 61 games in the IHL with the Indianapolis Chiefs and Louisville Rebels during the 1958–59 season, and winning the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the IHL's goaltender with the fewest goals allowed during the regular season.
Rigazio also played three games in the American Hockey League with the Cleveland Barons during the 1959–60 AHL season.
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- 1934 births
- American men's ice hockey goaltenders
- Cleveland Barons (1937–1973) players
- Ice hockey players at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Ice hockey players from Massachusetts
- Indianapolis Chiefs players
- Living people
- Louisville Rebels players
- Medalists at the 1956 Winter Olympics
- Olympic ice hockey players for the United States
- Olympic medalists in ice hockey
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American ice hockey biography stubs