Eric Beaudoin

Eric Beaudoin
Date of birth	May 3, 1980
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
Nickname	Big Beaudo
size	196 cm
Weight	100 kg
position	Center , left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1998 , 4th round, 92nd position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
1997-2000	Guelph Storm
2000-2001	Louisville Panthers
2001-2002	Utah grizzlies
2002-2005	San Antonio Rampage
2005	Edmonton Road Runners
2005	Newcastle Vipers
2005-2008	Mora IK
2008-2009	Linköpings HC
2009-2010	Rögle BK
2010-2013	EHC Biel
2013	Straubing Tigers
2013-2014	EHC Biel
2014-2015	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2016	EHC Olten

Éric Beaudoin (born May 3, 1980 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who was active in the course of his active career for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League .

Career

Éric Beaudoin was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning during the 1998 NHL Entry Draft and began his career with the Guelph Storm of the Ontario Hockey League . With these he won the 1998 J. Ross Robertson Cup , the championship trophy of the OHL.

From 2000 he went on the ice for various teams in the American Hockey League before making his debut for the Florida Panthers in the National Hockey League in the 2001/02 season . Until 2005 he played for the Panthers in the NHL and for their farm teams in the AHL, where he completed a total of 53 NHL games, in which he scored eleven points .

Before the 2005/06 season, Beaudoin was signed by the Newcastle Vipers from the British Elite Ice Hockey League . A short time later, however, this contract was dissolved, since Beaudoin was playing for various clubs in the SM-liiga . Ultimately, however, he moved to Sweden for Mora IK , for which he completed a total of three seasons. In 2008 he joined the Swedish runner-up Linköpings HC and played for them in both the Elite Series and the Champions Hockey League . In May 2009 he signed a contract with Rögle BK . Despite a solid season for the Canadian, relegation to HockeyAllsvenskan could not be prevented. Then Beaudoin decided to leave Sweden to play in Switzerland for the EHC Biel in the NLA . Due to a shoulder injury, he was out for much of the 2010/11 season . Nevertheless, thanks to good performance in relegation , the contract was extended by one year. After two more seasons with the Swiss first division club, the Canadian's contract was not renewed. In his last season for EHC Biel, he was unable to complete a large number of games because of the lockout in the NHL , as two well-known players, Tyler Seguin and Patrick Kane , were committed in the fight for one of the four contingent places.

The move to Germany followed, where Beaudoin was active for the Straubing Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League for a few months . Shortly afterwards, however, he returned to EHC Biel in Switzerland, where he scored ten goals in 24 main round games and prepared another eight for his teammates. Furthermore, he took part in the playouts with the team, which after completed the main round with only 50 points in the penultimate place in the table, took part in the play-outs and then had to play in the league qualification against the second division club EHC Visp , where one remained in the highest Swiss ice hockey league. He was then without a club.

On December 17, 2014, the KHL club KHL Medveščak Zagreb signed Beaudoin until the end of the season. Due to an injury, he only played three missions in the KHL, so his contract was terminated in May 2015.

In January 2016, following a probationary period, Beaudoin signed a contract with the Swiss NLB club EHC Olten until the end of the 2015/16 season. After head coach Heikki Leime was dismissed during the playoff semifinal series in March, Beaudoin took over the interim coaching position together with sports director Jakob Kölliker . Then the Canadian ended his active career.

Achievements and Awards

• 1998 J. Ross Robertson Cup win with the Guelph Storm

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1997/98	Guelph Storm	OHL		62	9	13	22nd	43		12	3	2	5	4th
1998/99	Guelph Storm	OHL		66	28	43	71	79		11	5	3	8th	12
1999/00	Guelph Storm	OHL		68	38	34	72	126		6th	3	0	3	2
2000/01	Louisville Panthers	AHL		71	15th	10	25th	78		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Utah grizzlies	AHL		44	5	16	21st	83		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Florida panthers	NHL		8th	1	3	4th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		41	14th	23	37	36		3	1	0	1	0
2002/03	Florida panthers	NHL		15th	0	1	1	25th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		38	20th	22nd	42	45		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Florida panthers	NHL		30th	2	4th	6th	12		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	San Antonio Rampage	AHL		32	6th	4th	10	21st		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Edmonton Road Runners	AHL		24	3	1	4th	9		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Newcastle Vipers	EIHL		7th	1	6th	7th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Jokerit Helsinki	SM-liiga		11	1	2	3	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	HPK Hämeenlinna	SM-liiga		2	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Mora IK	Elitserien		32	2	9	11	24		-	-	-	-	-
2006/07	Mora IK	Elitserien		55	14th	12	26th	64		4th	2	0	2	6th
2007/08	Mora IK	Elitserien		52	11	16	27	95		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Linköpings HC	CHL		4th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Linköpings HC	Elitserien		53	16	7th	23	53		7th	2	0	2	4th
2009/10	Rögle BK	Elitserien		55	14th	20th	34	59		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	EHC Biel	NLA		8th	5	2	7th	2		6th	1	3	4th	8th
2011/12	EHC Biel	NLA		50	11	12	23	20th		5	3	2	5	2
2012/13	EHC Biel	NLA		30th	10	5	15th	26th		7th	3	3	6th	2
2013/14	Straubing Tigers	DEL		10	0	5	5	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	EHC Biel	NLA		24	10	8th	18th	16		13 1	5	4th	9	8th
2014/15	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		3	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	EHC Olten	NLB		4th	1	0	1	0		2	0	1	1	2
NHL overall				53	3	8th	11	41		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				250	63	76	139	272		3	1	0	1	0
Elitserien total				247	57	64	121	295		33	10	5	15th	24
NLA total				112	36	28	64	64		18th	7th	8th	15th	12

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Éric Beaudoin at eurohockey.com
• Éric Beaudoin at hockeydb.com (English)
• Éric Beaudoin at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hockeysverige.se Canadians ready for Rögle (Swedish)
2. ↑ hockeysverige.se Beaudoin finds new club (Swedish)
3. ↑ Eric Beaudoin returns to Biel. In: aargauerzeitung.ch. January 27, 2011, accessed December 12, 2018 . 
4. ↑ eishockey-magazin.de key position occupied! Straubing Tigers bring Center Eric Beaudoin from NLA Club Biel from Switzerland
5. ↑ medvescak.com, Beaudoin coming, Owuya staying, Trotter leaving (English), accessed December 17, 2014
6. ↑ EHC Olten strengthens for the playoffs. In: Swiss Radio and Television (SRF). Retrieved March 15, 2016 . 
7. ↑ Olten defeats Ajoie with a new trainer. (No longer available online.) In: Neue Luzerner Zeitung . Archived from the original on March 24, 2016 ; accessed on March 15, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.