Alain Lemieux

Alain Lemieux
Date of birth	May 24, 1961
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
size	183 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1980 , 5th lap, 96th position St. Louis Blues
Career stations
1978-1979	Junior de Montréal
1979-1980	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
1980-1981	Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
1981-1985	St. Louis Blues
1985-1986	Nordiques de Québec
1986-1987	Baltimore Skipjacks
1987-1988	Hershey Bears Springfield Indians
1990-1991	Albany Choppers Milwaukee Admirals
1997-1998	Tucson Gila Monsters

Alain Lemieux (born May 24, 1961 in Montréal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 138 games for the St. Louis Blues , Nordiques de Québec and Pittsburgh Penguins in the course of his active career between 1978 and 1991 of the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center . He is the older brother of Mario Lemieux .

Career

Lemieux first played from 1978 to 1981 for the Junior de Montréal , Saguenéens de Chicoutimi and Draveurs de Trois-Rivières in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) before becoming the 96th player in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft fifth round was drafted by the St. Louis Blues .

After he had not made the breakthrough in the NHL in both the St. Louis Blues and the Nordiques de Québec , Lemieux moved to the 1986/87 season in the Swiss National League A for EHC Olten . There he was behind Erich Kühnhackl and Scott Fusco but mostly surplus foreigners. He was only used in three games in which he booked two assists. He returned to North America shortly after the start of the season. He signed with the Pittsburgh Penguins organization, to which his younger brother Mario was also under contract. But he was never on the ice with his brother. Alain Lemieux spent the whole season with the exception of one game on the penguins' farm team . His brother was absent due to illness during his only NHL mission for the Penguins.

It should have been the last NHL game of his career. He spent the following years with the exception of the 1988/89 season, in which he played in Finland for SaiPa Lappeenranta and Kärpät Oulu in the lower leagues of North America. In the 1994 season Lemieux scored twelve goals in 12 games for the Pittsburgh Phantoms from the professional inline hockey league Roller Hockey International and prepared another 16.

Achievements and Awards

• 1981 Guy Lafleur Trophy
• 1981 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team
• 1987 AHL Second All-Star Team

NHL career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1981/82	St. Louis Blues	NHL		3	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	St. Louis Blues	NHL		42	9	25th	34	18th		4th	0	1	1	0
1983/84	St. Louis Blues	NHL		17th	4th	5	9	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	St. Louis Blues	NHL		19th	4th	2	6th	0		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		30th	11	11	22nd	12		14th	3	3	6th	0
1985/86	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		7th	0	0	0	2		1	1	2	3	0
1986/87	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				119	28	44	72	38		19th	4th	6th	10	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 Lemieux at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
• Alain Lemieux at eliteprospects.com (English)
• Alain Lemieux at hockeydraftcentral.com