Most of his professional career has been for teams in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga and East Coast Hockey League.

He participated in the 2006 Canadian Junior Hockey League Top Prospects Game, earning Team East MVP honors.

[10] One of the highlights of the season occurred when he scored the first 3 goals of the game in the first period (the first 2 within 24 seconds of each other) for the natural hat trick against Michigan Tech on December 27, 2008.

[22] Michigan entered the CCHA playoffs with a 19–17–1 record and was on the verge of breaking the team's 19 consecutive year streak of qualifying for the NCAA Men's Ice Hockey Championship.

[25][26] However, Michigan lost in the quarterfinal round in double overtime to the CCHA regular season champion Miami Redhawks.

[30] Subsequently, the team finished as runner-up in the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament.

After attending Ottawa's NHL training camp, He was expected to join the Binghamton Senators to begin his professional career.

[36] After scoring 5 points in his first 5 games with Elmira, he was promoted to the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League on November 4.

[40] Caporusso spent 4 months with the Jackals (missing 6 weeks due to a concussion), scoring 16 goals and 16 assists in 29 games, before being called back up to the Senators on March 15.

[43] In his Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) debut for the Augsburger Panther, he scored the game-winning goal in a shootout.

[44] After parts of two seasons in the DEL with Augsburger Panther, Caporusso joined fellow German club, Iserlohn Roosters on a one-year contract on June 12, 2015.

[46] On March 6, 2017, Caporusso agreed to a move to Sweden, signing a 1-year deal with Brynäs IF of the top tier Swedish Hockey League.

[47] He began the 2017–18 season by appearing in only 7 games with Brynäs before opting to terminate his contract with the club and return to Germany with former team, the Iserlohn Roosters, on a two-year deal on November 1, 2017.

[50] On July 28, 2021, Caporusso marked his return to professional hockey in agreeing to a 1-year deal in the ECHL with the Cincinnati Cyclones.

[14] At the University of Michigan, Caporusso was enrolled in the School of Kinesiology and performed public service by visiting the U-M Mott Children's Hospital.