Mario Larocque

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Position Defence
Shoots Left
Height
Weight
6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
165 lb (75 kg/11 st 11 lb)
EBEL Team
F. teams
HC TWK Innsbruck
Tampa Bay Lightning
Nationality Flag of Canada Canada
Born April 24, 1978 (1978-04-24) (age 30),
Montreal, QC, CAN
NHL Draft 15th overall, 1996
Tampa Bay Lightning
Pro career 1998 – present

Mario Larocque (born April 24, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for HC TWK Innsbruck in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in Austria.

Larocque was drafted in the first-round, 15th overall by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1996, but only managed to play 5 NHL games for the Lightning during the 1998–99 NHL season, scoring no points with 16 penalty minutes. He spent the rest of that season in the International Hockey League with the Cleveland Lumberjacks before playing two seasons with the Detroit Vipers of the same league. After the IHL folded, he was signed by the Buffalo Sabres but was assigned to the American Hockey League with the Rochester Americans and never saw any ice time with the Sabres. He spent the next five seasons in the ECHL with the Wheeling Nailers and the United Hockey League with the Danbury Trashers and the Fort Wayne Komets, along with brief spells in the AHL for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. In 2007, he joined Austrian team TWK Innsbruck.

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