Tom Barrasso Thomas Patrick Barrasso ( born March 31 , 1965 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is a retired American professional goaltender who played all 18 seasons for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League , and the only goalie to ever play in the NHL directly from high school , without having played major junior or college hockey first . He is considered the best goaltender in Penguins franchise history due to the length of his career and his critical role in backstopping the team to successive Stanley Cup s in 1991 and 1992 . He currently serves as the goaltending coach and director of goaltending development for the Carolina Hurricanes . Playing career . Tom Barrasso grew up in Massachusetts , playing ice hockey on an outdoor rink . He started playing goalie when he was only 5 years old and by the time he was a teenager , playing in net for Acton - Boxborough high school with fellow NHL players Bob Sweeney and Jeff Norton , Barrasso was considered one of the most promising American goaltending prospects of all time . He was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres with the 5th overall pick in 1983 , the highest goaltender to be selected in the NHL Entry Draft until 1997 , when Roberto Luongo was taken 4th overall . Skipping a college career , he went straight from high school to the NHL where he exceeded all expectations . At the time of his debut with the Sabres on October 5 , 1983 , less than six months after graduating from high school , Barrasso was the youngest goaltender to play and win a game in the NHL since Harry Lumley nearly forty years prior . He won the Calder Trophy and Vezina Trophy in his first season , becoming the third player to win both awards in the same year . In 1988 , the Sabres traded Barrasso to the Pittsburgh Penguins where he won two Stanley Cup s , in 1991 and 1992 . It was his outstanding play in these Cup runs that established him as a " money goalie " , someone who could deliver wins when it counted the most . In the following years , Barrasso missed most of two seasons , the 1994 – 95 NHL season and the 1996 – 97 NHL season with injuries but came back with good performances in the next years . In 1997 he became the first American goaltender to record 300 NHL wins . A fiercely proud competitor , in his later seasons in Pittsburgh he developed a strained relationship with the local media whom he felt were disrespectful of him and his family . In March 2000 , he was traded to the Ottawa Senators for Ron Tugnutt and Janne Laukkanen . He spent the 2000 – 01 season out of hockey and returned with the Carolina Hurricanes in time for the 2001 – 02 season . He enjoyed some late international success , winning Silver at the 2002 Winter Olympics . In his last few seasons he briefly played for several teams , the Ottawa Senators , the Carolina Hurricanes , the Toronto Maple Leafs , and the St . Louis Blues until retiring from ice hockey in 2003 . He signed a " pro forma " contract with Pittsburgh on the day he declared retirement so he could leave hockey as a Penguin . Barrasso now serves as the goaltender coach of the Carolina Hurricanes . He lives with his wife Megan , as well as his three daughters , Ashley , Kelsey , and Mallory . Barrasso founded the Ashley Barrasso Cancer Research Fund during the early 1990s after his daughter survived a bout with cancer . International play . Barrasso won an Olympic silver medal as part of the U . S . national men ' s ice hockey team at the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City . He played in one game , an 8 – 1 victory over Belarus on February 18 . Barrasso had originally intended to play for the 1984 U . S . Olympic team in Sarajevo , but chose to begin his professional career instead and left the team in September 1983 to sign with the Sabres . He made his debut for Team USA at the 1984 Canada Cup , at the age of 19 . He also played at the 1986 World Ice Hockey Championships and the 1987 Canada Cup .