André Boudrias

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CanadaCanada  André Boudrias Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 19, 1943
place of birth Montréal , Québec , Canada
date of death 5th February 2019
Place of death Whistler , British Columbia , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 74 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1961-1964 Canadien junior de Montréal
1963-1967 Canadiens de Montréal
Omaha Knights
Houston Apollos
1967-1969 Minnesota North Stars
1969 Chicago Black Hawks
1969-1970 St. Louis Blues
Kansas City Blues
1970-1976 Vancouver Canucks
1976-1988 Nordiques de Québec

André Gerard Boudrias (born September 19, 1943 in Montréal , Québec ; † February 5, 2019 in Whistler , British Columbia ) was a Canadian ice hockey player , coach , functional and scout . The left winger played over 600 games for five teams in the National Hockey League between 1963 and 1976 , most of them for the Vancouver Canucks , which he also led as team captain. He then let his active career with the Nordiques de Québec end in the World Hockey Association , with whom he won the 1977 playoffs for the Avco World Trophy . After his career as a player, he worked, among other things, in the management of the Canadiens de Montréal , where his NHL career had started, and acted as a long-time scout of the New Jersey Devils .

Career

As a player

Beginnings

André Boudrias spent his junior years with the Canadien junior de Montréal in his hometown, with whom he participated in the game operations of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). As a rookie , he managed to lead the league with 97 scorer points , so that he was awarded the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy . With 135 points from 55 games, the winger repeated this success two years later. At the same time, he gained his first professional experience in the Eastern Professional Hockey League , where he played a few games for the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens and the North Bay Trappers . Finally, he made his debut in January 1964 for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League (NHL), which at that time cooperated with the Canadien junior de Montréal. In the course of the following three years, however, the attacker failed to establish himself in the Canadiens' NHL squad, so that he was mainly used in minor leagues . In addition to a few games with the As de Québec in the American Hockey League , he was mainly on the ice for the Omaha Knights and Houston Apollos in the Central Professional Hockey League .

NHL

After all, it wasn't until the big league expansion of 1967 that he was able to get regular playing time in the NHL. Boudrias was hired in June 1967 by the newly formed Minnesota North Stars , who in addition to him also received Bob Charlebois and Bernard Coté from the Canadiens and gave up their first-round voting rights in the 1971 NHL Amateur Draft . In Minnesota he succeeded for the first time in the NHL as a regular scorer in appearance, so that he represented the team in the NHL All-Star Game 1967 . However, the North Stars transferred him together with Mike McMahon junior to the Chicago Black Hawks in February 1969 , while Tom Reid and Bill Orban moved to Minnesota in return . With the Blackhawks, the left winger ended only the season 1968/69 before he got to the St. Louis Blues via the NHL Intra-League Draft in June 1969 . In addition to a handful of games for their farm team , the Kansas City Blues , he reached the Stanley Cup finals with St. Louis in the 1970 playoffs , but lost 4-0 to the Boston Bruins there .

Subsequently, another expansion ensured the continuation of Boudrias' NHL career. The Vancouver Canucks joined the NHL in the 1970/71 season from the Western Hockey League and signed him in June 1970 for a seventh-round and a nine-round suffrage in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft . As a result, the team was to represent his longest and most personally most successful station of his career, so in the following years he achieved the marks of 30 goals (1972/73) and 60 assists (1974/75) for the first time, during 1974/75 with 78 His statistically best season and a franchise record should also be scorer points . In addition, he acted as a leader of the Canucks and took over as an experienced player for the 1975/76 season, the office of team captain .

WHA and end of career

For the season 1976/77 Boudrias moved to the World Hockey Association for the Nordiques de Québec , who had previously acquired the player rights to him in exchange for Gord Gallant from the Minnesota Fighting Saints . With the team from his home province, he promptly won the WHA playoffs for the Avco World Trophy in his first season , before declaring his active career over after another year. Overall, the left winger - despite his well below average physique of 1.73 meters in height and weight of around 74 kg - played 696 NHL games and scored 507 points.

As a trainer, functionary and scout

After the end of his active career, Boudrias worked as an assistant coach of the Nordiques de Québec and in this role also looked after the Canadian national team at the 1979 World Cup . He then moved to the management of the Canadiens de Montréal for the 1983/84 season, where he was assistant to General Manager Serge Savard until the 1995/96 season . In addition, his name was immortalized on the trophy when he won the Stanley Cup in Montréals in the 1993 playoffs . The Canadian subsequently worked as a scout in the service of the New Jersey Devils for 15 years , until he finally retired from ice hockey after the 2011/12 season. He died in Whistler on February 5, 2019 at the age of 75 .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1961/62 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 50 34 63 97 54 6th 2 3 5 4th
1961/62 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens EPHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - - -
1961/62 North Bay Trappers EPHL 1 0 3 3 2 1 0 0 0 0
1962/63 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 50 12 43 55 72 10 3 4th 7th 18th
1962/63 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens EPHL 3 0 1 1 0 - - - - - -
1963/64 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 55 38 97 135 48 16 11 26th 37 18th
1963/64 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 4th 1 4th 5 +3 2 - - - - - -
1964/65 As de Québec AHL 14th 4th 9 13 4th - - - - - -
1964/65 Omaha Knights CPHL 52 15th 49 64 10 6th 1 7th 8th 2
1964/65 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 1 0 0 0 -2 2 - - - - - -
1965/66 As de Québec AHL 1 2 0 2 0 - - - - - -
1965/66 Houston Apollos CPHL 70 27 46 73 53 - - - - - -
1966/67 Houston Apollos CPHL 67 16 48 64 58 6th 1 2 3 6th
1966/67 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 2 0 1 1 -2 0 - - - - - -
1967/68 Minnesota North Stars NHL 74 18th 35 53 -3 42 14th 3 6th 9 +1 8th
1968/69 Minnesota North Stars NHL 53 4th 9 13 -30 6th - - - - - -
1968/69 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 20th 4th 10 14th +11 4th - - - - - -
1969/70 Kansas City Blues CHL 19th 7th 16 23 16 - - - - - -
1969/70 St. Louis Blues NHL 50 3 14th 17th +7 20th 14th 2 4th 6th -4 4th
1970/71 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 25th 41 66 +14 16 - - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 27 34 61 -34 26th - - - - - -
1972/73 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 30th 40 70 -16 24 - - - - - -
1973/74 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 16 59 75 –6 18th - - - - - -
1974/75 Vancouver Canucks NHL 77 16 62 78 +7 46 5 1 0 1 -3 0
1975/76 Vancouver Canucks NHL 71 7th 31 38 –7 10 1 0 0 0 -1 0
1976/77 Nordiques de Québec WHA 74 12 31 43 +3 12 17th 3 12 15th +5 6th
1977/78 Nordiques de Québec WHA 66 10 17th 27 +4 22nd 11 0 2 2 -2 4th
OHA total 155 84 203 287 174 32 16 33 49 40
AHL total 15th 6th 9 15th 4th - - - - - -
C (P) HL total 208 65 159 224 137 12 2 9 11 8th
WHA total 140 22nd 48 70 +7 34 28 3 14th 17th +3 10
NHL overall 662 151 340 491 -58 216 34 6th 10 16 –7 12

( 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. ↑ a b Canadiens mourn the loss of André Boudrias on nhl.com, accessed on February 7, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Boudrias, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boudrias, André Gerard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach, official and scout
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec , Canada
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 2019
Place of death Whistler , British Columbia , Canada