Tom Kostopoulos

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Tom Kostopoulos (born January 24, 1979 in Mississauga, Ontario) is a Canadian ice hockey player. Kostopoulos is of Greek Macedonian descent.

Kostopoulos was drafted by the Pittsburgh Penguins in the seventh Round of the 1999 NHL draft. Before that he played minor-league ice hockey with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins of the American Hockey League. Kostopoulos made his National Hockey League debut with the Penguins in the 2001–2002 season and enjoyed his best season so far with Pittsburgh in 2003–2004. During the 2005 off season, he signed a free-agent contract with the Los Angeles Kings, where he currently plays wearing jersey 29.

Kostopoulos plays a "grinding" style of ice hockey, and is not afraid to play rough and also gets into the occasional fight.

Many Kings fans like Tom Kostopoulos because of his playing style. He never ceases to give up on a play and will not be afraid to pick a fight.

Kostopoulos is known as the team joker in the dressing room. He once sewed someone's keys inside their pocket. [1] The joker stories from the team are not limited to this; in fact there are numerous other stories that have surfaced around the team.

Kostopoulos was featured on a January 2007 episode of MADtv with several of his teammates, including Sean Avery.

  1. ^ Brian Cazenuve, "Streaking Ducks, sinking Sens and other notes", 'Inside Hockey', November 8, 2006. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/brian_cazeneuve/11/08/news.notes.color/index.html


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