Alain Daigle

Alain Daigle
Date of birth	August 24, 1954
place of birth	Trois-Rivières , Quebec , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
WHA Secret Amateur Draft	1974 , 1st lap, 12th position Nordiques de Québec
NHL Amateur Draft	1974 , 2nd round, 34th position Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1969-1974	Ducs / Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
1974-1980	Chicago Black Hawks
1980-1981	Gap Hockey Club
1981	New Brunswick Hawks
1981-1982	EV Innsbruck
1982-1984	Jets de Sherbrooke

Roland Alain Daigle (born August 24, 1954 in Trois-Rivières , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 406 games for the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League (NHL) between 1969 and 1984 has contested the position of the right winger .

Career

Daigle spent his junior years between 1969 and 1974 in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) with the Ducs or Draveurs de Trois-Rivières in his hometown of Trois-Rivières . During the five seasons in the LHJMQ, the winger completed 297 games for the team, in which he collected 371 points scorer . In his last year with the team, he acted as team captain . With 148 points, he was also by far the best player in the draveurs and was therefore drawn twelfth in the first round by the Nordiques de Québec from the World Hockey Association (WHA) in the WHA Secret Amateur Draft 1974 . A few months later, the selection in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft took place in the second round in 34th position by the Chicago Black Hawks from the National Hockey League (NHL).

For the 1974/75 season , the 20-year-old made the direct jump into the NHL roster of the Chicago Black Hawks, having previously signed a contract there. Although Daigle never met the expectations placed in him and could never achieve more than 25 scorer points, he was an integral part of the Black Hawks for six seasons. He completed his best playing year in the 1978/79 season , when he reached the mark of 25 scorer points.

After he had only scored 16 points in the following year, his contract in Chicago was not renewed. The French-Canadian decided to give his career in Europe a new impetus. He moved to the 1980/81 season in the French National A , where he signed a contract with Gap Hockey Club . At the end of the season he returned briefly to North America to support the New Brunswick Hawks from the American Hockey League (AHL), for which he had completed some missions in the 1978/79 season , in the end of the season. For the game year 1981/82 Daigle moved again to Europe. He spent the season at EV Innsbruck in the Austrian Ice Hockey League (ÖEL). With 51 points in 24 games, he played a successful season that brought him a contract with the Jets de Sherbrooke from the AHL for the 1982/83 season . There the striker let his career come to a solid end to the end of the 198/84 season with 81 points in a total of 122 appearances, before declaring his active career over shortly before his 30th birthday.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1969/70	Ducs de Trois-Rivières	LHJMQ		26th	5	3	8th	13		-	-	-	-	-
1970/71	Ducs de Trois-Rivières	LHJMQ		62	28	34	62	66		11	2	5	7th	10
1971/72	Ducs de Trois-Rivières	LHJMQ		60	30th	31	61	166		2	1	0	1	20th
1972/73	Ducs de Trois-Rivières	LHJMQ		61	42	32	74	97		4th	0	2	2	0
1973/74	Draveurs de Trois-Rivières	LHJMQ		67	80	68	148	72		4th	5	3	8th	0
1974/75	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		52	5	4th	9	6th		2	0	0	0	0
1975/76	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		71	15th	9	24	15th		4th	0	0	0	0
1976/77	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		73	12	8th	20th	11		1	0	0	0	0
1977/78	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		53	6th	6th	12	13		4th	0	1	1	0
1978/79	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		74	11	14th	25th	55		4th	0	0	0	0
1978/79	New Brunswick Hawks	AHL		5	2	2	4th	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		66	7th	9	16	22nd		2	0	0	0	0
1980/81	Gap Hockey Club	National A		28	22nd	13	35			-	-	-	-	-
1980/81	New Brunswick Hawks	AHL		15th	5	5	10	14th		7th	1	1	2	7th
1981/82	EV Innsbruck	OIL		24	32	19th	51	62		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Jets de Sherbrooke	AHL		43	11	22nd	33	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Jets de Sherbrooke	AHL		79	22nd	26th	48	24		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				276	185	168	353	414		21st	8th	10	18th	30th
AHL total				142	40	55	95	60		7th	1	1	2	7th
NHL overall				389	56	50	106	122		17th	0	1	1	0

( 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 Daigle at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from September 1, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
• Alain Daigle at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alain Daigle at hockeydraftcentral.com