Eric Chouinard

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Eric Chouinard
Date of birth July 8, 1980
place of birth Atlanta , Georgia , USA
size 189 cm
Weight 97 kg
position center
number # 16
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1998 , 1st lap, 16th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1997-2000 Remparts de Quebec
2000-2002 Citadelles de Quebec
2002-2003 Philadelphia Flyers
2003-2004 Minnesota Wild
2004-2005 EC Red Bull Salzburg
2005 Philadelphia Phantoms
2005-2006 San Antonio Rampage
2006 HC Sierre
2006-2009 Straubing Tigers
2009-2013 Nuremberg Ice Tigers

Éric Chouinard (born July 8, 1980 in Atlanta , Georgia ) is a retired Canadian - American ice hockey player . Most recently he played with the Bayreuth Tigers in the DEL2 . He is the son of former NHL player Guy Chouinard , and his cousin Marc was also active there.

Career

Éric Chouinard at the 2001 AHL All-Star Classic

After 296 points in 180 games with the Québec Remparts in the Canadian Junior League Québec Major Junior Hockey League , the center was selected in the 1998 NHL Entry Draft in the first draft round in 16th overall position by the Montréal Canadiens . After his time with the Canadiens and their farm team , the Québec Citadelles from the AHL , the left-handed shooter also played for the Philadelphia Flyers and the Minnesota Wild , where he ran up with his cousin Marc Chouinard in the 2003/04 season. Chouinard spent the lockout of the 2004/05 NHL season at EC Red Bull Salzburg from the Austrian ice hockey league .

In the jersey of the Straubing Tigers

For the 2006/07 season , the Canadian, who also has US citizenship because of his birthplace Atlanta, where his father was on the ice in the NHL, moved to the second-rate Swiss National League B to HC Sierre-Anniviers and then to Russia Yaroslavl locomotive . Here, however, the attacker was not used due to an injury and signed a contract with the Straubing Tigers from the German Ice Hockey League in the middle of the 2006/07 season . In the 2007/08 season , Chouinard was voted the sixth best center in the DEL by the ice hockey magazine Eishockey News .

On January 19, 2009, the Straubing Tigers announced the suspension of Chouinard. This was preceded by permanent tensions between the player and the club.

From the 2009/10 season to the end of the 2012/13 season, Chouinard was under contract with the Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers in Nuremberg.

In the 2013/14 season he first played for the Belarusian KHL representative HK Dinamo Minsk , then after eight games he moved to Norway to Vålerenga Ishockey in Norway's capital Oslo.

From the 2014/15 season Chouinard was under contract with the French first division club Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38 . In 2017 he temporarily ended his career and became a scout . During the 2017/18 season he started training again and received a contract with the Bayreuth Tigers from the DEL2 in November 2017 .

Chouinard ended his career in 2018.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1997/98 Québec Remparts QMJHL 68 41 42 83 18th 14th 7th 10 17th 6th
1998/99 Québec Remparts QMJHL 62 50 59 109 56 13 8th 10 18th 8th
1998/99 Fredericton Canadiens AHL - - - - - 6th 3 2 5 0
1999/00 Québec Remparts QMJHL 50 57 47 104 105 11 14th 4th 18th 8th
2000/01 Montréal Canadiens NHL 13 1 3 4th 0 - - - - -
2000/01 Québec Citadelles AHL 48 12 21st 33 6th 9 2 0 2 2
2001/02 Québec Citadelles AHL 65 19th 23 42 18th 2 0 0 0 0
2002/03 Utah grizzlies AHL 32 12 12 24 16 - - - - -
2002/03 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 28 4th 4th 8th 8th - - - - -
2003/04 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 17th 3 0 3 0 - - - - -
2003/04 Minnesota Wild NHL 31 3 4th 7th 6th - - - - -
2003/04 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
2004/05 EC Red Bull Salzburg OIL 16 5 5 10 42 - - - - -
2005/06 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
2005/06 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 24 7th 7th 14th 4th - - - - -
2005/06 San Antonio Rampage AHL 47 8th 12 20th 22nd - - - - -
2006/07 HC Sierre-Anniviers NLB 4th 3 3 6th 0 - - - - -
2006/07 Straubing Tigers DEL 27 6th 17th 23 32 - - - - -
2007/08 Straubing Tigers DEL 55 30th 22nd 52 58 - - - - -
2008/09 Straubing Tigers DEL 41 14th 19th 33 12 - - - - -
2009/10 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 45 15th 14th 29 32 5 2 2 4th 4th
2010/11 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 52 24 25th 49 50 2 0 1 1 2
2011/12 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 34 13 18th 31 10 - - - - -
2012/13 Thomas Sabo Ice Tigers DEL 52 16 31 47 20th 3 0 1 1 0
QMJHL total 180 148 148 296 179 38 29 24 53 14th
AHL total 217 58 75 133 66 6th 3 2 5 0
DEL total 306 118 146 264 214 10 2 4th 6th 6th
NHL overall 90 11 11 22nd 16 - - - - -

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ eishockey.info, Straubing Tigers suspend striker Eric Chouinard
  2. ↑ Bayreuth brings sniper Eric Chouinard back to Germany. In: eishockeynews.de. January 24, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Chouinard, Eric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chouinard, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian-American ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta