Billy Tibbetts
| Billy Tibbetts | |||
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| Born |
October 14, 1974 Scituate, MA, USA |
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| Height | 6 ft 2 in (188 cm) | ||
| Weight | 212 lb (96 kg; 15 st 2 lb) | ||
| Position | Right Wing | ||
| Shot | Right | ||
| Played for |
Huntsville Havoc Danbury Madhatters Chicago Wolves Rockford IceHogs Idaho Steelheads San Diego Gulls Houston Aeros Springfield Falcons Las Vegas Wranglers New York Rangers Hartford Wolfpack Philadelphia Flyers Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins Pittsburgh Penguins Johnstown Chiefs Birmingham Bulls Sioux City Musketeers HPK HIFK EHC Olten |
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| NHL Draft | Undrafted | ||
| Playing career | 1994–2012 | ||
William Thomas Tibbetts (born October 14, 1974) is an American retired professional hockey player who last played for the Cape Cod Bluefins of the Federal Hockey League.
Tibbetts started his career in the ECHL with the Birmingham Bulls, playing two games with the team as a 19-year-old rookie during the 1994–95 season. The following season, he would sign with the Johnstown Chiefs. Tibbetts finished the season with 37 goals, 31 assists, and 68 points, ranking third on the team behind established ECHL veterans Don Parsons and Trevor Jobe. His 300 PIMs was the second highest on the team that season, finishing only behind Jason Courtenmache's 363 PIMs. Because of a ruling which involved the violation of his probation, this would be Tibbetts' last season of professional hockey until the year 2000.
In 1994, Tibbetts plead guilty to statutory rape, based on a 1992 interaction between a 17-year-old Tibbetts and a 15-year-old girl. His sentence was suspended for 42 months. However, in 1995, while on probation for the statutory rape case, Tibbetts was convicted of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (a BB gun), disorderly conduct and witness intimidation. As a result, Tibbetts served 39 months in prison; the sentence on the assault and battery charges was 30 months, but it would be served concurrently with the previously suspended sentence for rape. As a result of the convictions, Tibbetts had to register as a sex offender and could not play games in Canada.
On August 13, 2000, Tibbetts would sign Professional Tryout (PTO) contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins of the NHL. He would later be assigned to their AHL affiliate in Wilkes-Barre, where he would score 38 points in 38 games before being recalled by his parent club later that season. For Tibbetts to reach the NHL, even after three and a half years of jail time and adversity, Penguins owner/center Mario Lemieux at the time considered this to be "a great accomplishment" and that it was "a great story". Tibbetts would spend another partial season between Wilkes-Barre and Pittsburgh before being traded to Philadelphia. On March 17, 2002, Tibbetts would be traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for defensive forward and faceoff specialist Kent Manderville.
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