He later became an educator and coaches high school ice hockey and tennis.\n', '

Cornforth was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on November 13, 1972. He attended Lower Canada College, a private all boys\' school in Montreal. He then played in the Canadian Junior Hockey League for two years before attending Merrimack College, where he was captain of both the varsity tennis and ice hockey teams. He also received the Distinguished Scholar Award during his senior year at Merrimack, was recognized as a four-time member of the All-Academic Hockey East Team, and was selected as the Northeast Tennis Player of the Year. He graduated from Merrimack with a degree in Accounting and was on the Dean\'s List all four years there.\n', '

After Merrimack, and a two-game stint in the American Hockey League\'s Syracuse Crunch in 1994–1995, He did not make the NHL out of camp and spent most of the 1995–1996 season with the Providence Bruins, but Cornforth signed a free agent deal with the Boston Bruins in 1995. He played his first NHL exhibition game in his hometown of Montreal in the Montreal Forum. He played six games but was unable to score any points. He returned to the Providence Bruins after that, and stayed in the minors for the rest of his career. He split his time between the American Hockey League and the now-defunct International Hockey League. He played on the Cleveland Lumberjacks 1997–1998, the Grand Rapids Griffins 1998, and the Providence Bruins and Springfield Falcons 1998–1999. In the 1999–2000 season, he played just two games, one for the Lowell Lock Monsters and one for the Springfield Falcons, and retired in 2000.\n', '

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