OHL Alumni Central

Mike Looby played five seasons in the Ontario Hockey League from 2001-02 to 2005-06. He began his OHL career with the Brampton Battalion and called the Bunker home for two seasons. Looby spent the 2003-04 season with the Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds before heading to the Plymouth Whalers for the 2004-05 season. He split his final year between the Whalers and the Kingston Frontenacs.

After an early exit by the Frontenacs in Mike’s final OHL season (losing in the first round to the Sudbury Wolves in six games), it was off to the Central Hockey League’s Laredo Bucks. The Bucks won the CHL championship in 2005-06 and Looby played in 12 of the team’s playoff games, contributing a goal and two assists from the blue line.

Undrafted by an NHL club, Mike has spent most of his professional hockey career in the Central Hockey League. The exception was 2008-09 when he played in the East Coast Hockey League, split between the Dayton Bombers and the Gwinnett Gladiators. This past season, Mike played 54 games on the point for the CHL’s Wichita Thunder after starting the season with two games played for the Queen City Storm of the All-American Hockey League.

2011-12 brings about a major change in landscape for Looby. Mike will cross the Atlantic and play for Eaters Geleen in the Netherlands. This past season, Geleen finished sixth in the nine team Dutch elite league.

David Cornacchia played in the Ontario Hockey League from 1997-98 to 2000-01. He started his career with the Sudbury Wolves and was traded to the Sarnia Sting in 1998-99. The next season, 1999-00, David was traded from the Sting to the Belleville Bulls where he finished out his OHL career.

Cornacchia has fallen off the face of the hockey world, according to hockeydb.com. However, we’ve tracked him down playing in the Netherlands for Destil Trappers Tilburg (Tilburg Trappers). In the Dutch league, David is a point per game defenceman on a team that is in the top three of an eight team league.

Along the way, David has had stints in the ECHL, AHL, CHL, Germany’s DEL and Austria’s Erste Bank Eishockey Liga. The journey from the OHL to the Dutch league placed him on 10 different teams in 4 countries.

To view David Cornacchia’s profile page on the Tilburg Trappers official website, click here. The site is in Dutch, but, as we’ve said before, hockey on the internet is pretty universal. If you need help with a translation, you can always try Google Translate (just google it). There will be a Dutch language guide coming out on OHL Alumni Central. Currently there is just a German one with more to come.