Alain Côté (ice hockey player, 1967)

Alain Côté
Date of birth	April 14, 1967
place of birth	Montmagny , Quebec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1985 , 2nd lap, 31st position Boston Bruins
Career stations
1983-1985	Remparts de Quebec
1985	Bisons de Granby
1985-1986	Boston Bruins
1986-1987	Bisons de Granby
1987-1988	Maine Mariners
1988-1989	Boston Bruins
1989-1990	Baltimore Skipjacks
1990-1992	Canadiens de Montréal
1992-1993	Fredericton Canadiens
1993	Tampa Bay Lightning
1993-1994	Cornwall Aces
1994-1995	HK Olimpija Ljubljana
1995-1996	San Francisco Spiders
1996-1997	Rafales de Quebec
1997-1999	Snow Brand Sapporo
1999-2000	Nuremberg Ice Tigers
2000-2001	Tappara Tampere
2001-2002	Garaga de Saint-Georges
2002-2004	Promutuel de Rivière-du-Loup
2004-2005	Radio X de Québec
2005-2006	Grand Portneuf de Pont-Rouge Caron & Guay de Trois-Rivières
2006-2007	Gilmyr de Montmagny
2007-2008	Précision de Pont-Rouge
2008-2009	98.3 FM de Saguenay
2011–2012	Turmel-Desjardins Lac-Mégantic

Alain Gabriel Côté (born April 14, 1967 in Montmagny , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 130 games for the Boston Bruins , Washington Capitals , Canadiens de Montréal , Tampa Bay Lightning and Nordiques during his active career between 1983 and 2012 de Québec has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender .

Career

Côté first played between 1983 and 1985 for the Remparts de Québec and Bisons de Granby in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League . After the selection in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins , the defender gained professional experience in the National Hockey League for the first time in the 1985/86 season , but soon returned to the junior division in Granby.

From the summer of 1987, Côté was firmly rooted in the professional sector and subsequently belonged to the franchises of the Washington Capitals , Canadiens de Montréal , Tampa Bay Lightning and Nordiques de Québec . There he was mostly used for their farm teams in the American Hockey League . By the end of the 1993/94 season he played 130 games in the NHL in nine seasons.

Then the defender ran in the 1994/95 season for HK Olimpija Ljubljana in Slovenia , with which he won the Slovenian Championship . He then returned to North America and completed the following two seasons for the San Francisco Spiders and Rafales de Québec in the International Hockey League , followed by a two-year stay in Japan with Snow Brand Sapporo . In the 1999/2000 season , Côté was active for the Nürnberg Ice Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League . This was followed by a one-year interlude at Tappara Tampere in the Finnish SM-liiga .

In the spring of 2001, Côté returned to his home province of Québec . There he played for numerous semi-professional clubs with interruptions until 2012 before ending his career.

International

Côté took part in the 1986 World Junior Championship with his home country . He won the silver medal with the team.

Achievements and Awards

• 1986 silver medal at the Junior World Championship
• 1995 Slovenian champion with the HK Olimpija Ljubljana

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	9	119	2	18th	20th	124
Playoffs	1	11	0	2	2	26th

Web links

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