Growing up in Warminster, Pennsylvania, Eric played AAA youth hockey for Team Comcast while attending high school at Phillips Exeter Academy.  Following his time at Dartmouth College where he graduated with a BA in Government, Eric played 5 years pro with the Providence Bruins (AHL), Atlanta Gladiators, Adirondack Thunder, and Jacksonville Icemen (ECHL), and Sheffield Steelers and Milton Keynes Lightning (EIHL) in England.