Alain Côté (ice hockey player, 1957)

Alain Côté
Date of birth	May 3, 1957
place of birth	Matane , Quebec , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	93 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1977 , 3rd lap, 43rd position Canadiens de Montréal
WHA Amateur Draft	1977 , 5th lap, 47th position Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1974-1977	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
1977-1989	Nordiques de Québec

Alain Côté (born May 3, 1957 in Matane , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 763 games in the National Hockey League and 121 more in the World Hockey Association for the Nordiques de Québec during his active career between 1974 and 1989 on the position of the left winger . His son Jean-Philippe Côté is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Côté played during his junior years between 1974 and 1977 for the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League . Over the course of three years, the striker played a total of 208 games for the team and scored 230 points scorer . In the summer of 1977 he was then both in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 in the third round in 43rd place by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League and in the WHA Amateur Draft 1977 in the fifth round in 47th position by the Nordiques de Québec selected.

The attacking player then decided to sign a contract with the Nordiques in the WHA. In his rookie year , his assignments were divided between the WHA squad and the farm team , the Hampton Gulls from the American Hockey League . For the 1978/79 season Côté was finally a regular. After the World Hockey Association disbanded after the season and Québec had been accepted into the National Hockey League, the Canadiens de Montréal insisted on their NHL transfer rights to the player, which they had received via the draft. Côté therefore passed into the possession of the Canadiens on June 9, 1979, as he was not one of the three players the Nordiques had chosen to evade this regulation. However, the Nordiques immediately acquired the player back in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft . The attacker played for the Nordiques de Québec in the NHL until his retirement in the summer of 1989. He completed his most successful season in the 1983/84 season when he posted 43 points scorer.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1974/75	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	QMJHL		57	15th	29	44	43		10	2	2	4th	6th
1975/76	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	QMJHL		72	35	49	84	93		5	3	3	6th	2
1976/77	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	QMJHL		56	42	45	87	86		8th	1	5	6th	14th
1977/78	Hampton Gulls	AHL		36	15th	17th	32	38		-	-	-	-	-
1977/78	Nordiques de Québec	WHA		27	3	5	8th	8th		11	1	2	3	0
1978/79	Nordiques de Québec	WHA		79	14th	13	27	23		4th	0	0	0	2
1979/80	Syracuse Firebirds	AHL		6th	0	5	5	9
1979/80	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		41	5	11	16	13		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Rochester Americans	AHL		23	1	6th	7th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		51	8th	18th	26th	64		4th	0	0	0	6th
1981/82	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		79	15th	16	31	82		16	1	2	3	8th
1982/83	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		79	12	28	40	45		4th	0	3	3	0
1983/84	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		77	19th	24	43	41		9	0	2	2	17th
1984/85	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		80	13	22nd	35	31		18th	5	5	10	11
1985/86	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		78	13	21st	34	29		3	1	0	1	0
1986/87	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		80	12	24	36	38		13	2	3	5	2
1987/88	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		76	4th	18th	22nd	26th		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		55	2	8th	10	14th		-	-	-	-	-
QMJHL total				185	92	122	214	224		23	6th	10	16	22nd
AHL total				65	16	28	44	61		-	-	-	-	-
WHA total				106	17th	18th	35	31		15th	1	2	3	2
NHL overall				696	103	190	293	383		67	9	15th	24	44

( 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

• Alain Côté at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Alain Côté at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alain Côté at hockeydb.com (English)