André Dupont

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CanadaCanada  André Dupont Ice hockey player
Date of birth July 27, 1949
place of birth Trois-Rivières , Quebec , Canada
Nickname Mosses
size 185 cm
Weight 91 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1969 , 1st lap, 8th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
until 1966 Trois-Rivières Reds
1966-1968 Trois-Rivières Leafs
1968-1969 Canadien junior de Montréal
1969-1971 Omaha Knights
1971-1972 St. Louis Blues
1972-1980 Philadelphia Flyers
1980-1983 Nordiques de Québec

André "Moose" Dupont (born July 27, 1949 in Trois-Rivières , Québec) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and scout , who played 940 games for the New York Rangers between 1968 and 1983 . St. Louis Blues , Philadelphia Flyers and Nordiques de Québec has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . With the Philadelphia Flyers he won the Stanley Cup twice in a row in 1974 and 1975 as part of the so-called "Broad Street Bullies" .

Career

Dupont first spent his junior years in his hometown in Trois-Rivières, where he worked for teams in the Ligue de hockey junior du Québec until 1968 . By this time he had already participated in the Memorial Cup twice; a third time followed in 1969 with the later victorious Canadien junior de Montréal , to whom he had switched before the 1968/69 season. After winning the title, the defender in the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft was selected in the first round in eighth position by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League and then switched to the professional field.

The defender ran in the 1969/70 season for the Omaha Knights in the Central Hockey League . With these he won the Adams Cup at the end of the season . He himself was named the league's rookie of the year . In the following season, in which he completed his only seven appearances for the New York Rangers, the team repeated the title win. The Knights were so dominant that both Dupont and his teammates Peter McDuffe and Gerry Ouellette as well as Joe Zanussi of the Fort Worth Wings were honored with the CHL Most Valuable Player Award as the most valuable game in the league. Despite his success, the Canadian left the Knights and played for the Providence Reds in the American Hockey League before he was transferred from the New York Rangers to the St. Louis Blues in November 1971 with Jack Egers and Mike Murphy . In return, Gene Carr , Jim Lorentz and Wayne Connelly moved to the east coast of New York.

In St. Louis, the 22-year-old finally made the permanent leap into the NHL and was an unrestricted regular player there until another move in December 1972. With the joint change of a third-round suffrage in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft to the Philadelphia Flyers in exchange for Brent Hughes and Pierre Plante , Dupont's most successful time in the league followed. In 1974 and 1975 he won the Stanley Cup twice in a row in the service of the so-called "Broad Street Bullies" around Bobby Clarke , Gary Dornhoefer , Bob Kelly , Don Saleski and Dave Schultz . Before he left after the 1979/80 season , two more finals should follow. In September 1980, Dupont was transferred back to his home province, where he let the last three years of his career with the Nordiques de Québec end. Between 1980 and 1981 he was there, the fifth team captain of the franchise credit history.

After the 1982/83 season and 940 completed NHL games, the defensive player ended his active career at the age of 34. Subsequently, he looked after the Draveurs de Trois-Rivières from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec for three years until 1986, unsuccessfully as head coach and did not return to this position at another club. After working as a scout for the Ottawa Senators from the NHL between 1991 and 1996 , he retired completely from the ice hockey business.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1965/66 Trois-Rivières Reds QJHL 5 2 0 2 11 - - - - -
1966/67 Trois-Rivières Leafs QJHL 45 5 24 29 310 14th 2 7th 9 52
1967 Thetford Mines Canadiens Memorial Cup 1 0 0 0 4th
1967/68 Trois-Rivières Leafs QJHL not known 4th 0 7th 7th 10
1968 Maple Leafs de Verdun Memorial Cup 5 0 1 1 10
1968/69 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 38 2 14th 16 212 14th 2 8th 10 76
1969 Canadien junior de Montréal Memorial Cup 8th 2 3 5 39
1969/70 Omaha Knights CHL 64 11 26th 37 258 12 1 8th 9 75
1970/71 New York Rangers NHL 7th 1 2 3 21st - - - - -
1970/71 Omaha Knights CHL 54 15th 31 46 308 11 0 7th 7th 45
1971/72 Providence Reds AHL 18th 1 8th 9 95 - - - - -
1971/72 St. Louis Blues NHL 60 3 10 13 147 11 1 0 1 20th
1972/73 St. Louis Blues NHL 25th 1 6th 7th 51 - - - - -
1972/73 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 46 3 20th 23 164 11 1 2 3 29
1973/74 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 3 20th 23 216 16 4th 3 7th 67
1974/75 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 80 11 21st 32 216 17th 3 2 5 49
1975/76 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 75 9 27 36 276 15th 2 2 4th 46
1976/77 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 59 10 19th 29 214 10 1 1 2 35
1977/78 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 69 2 12 14th 225 12 2 1 3 13
1978/79 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 77 3 9 12 135 8th 0 0 0 17th
1979/80 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 58 1 7th 8th 107 19th 0 4th 4th 50
1980/81 Nordiques de Québec NHL 63 5 8th 13 93 1 0 0 0 0
1981/82 Nordiques de Québec NHL 60 4th 12 16 100 16 0 3 3 18th
1982/83 Nordiques de Québec NHL 46 3 12 15th 69 4th 0 0 0 8th
CHL total 118 26th 57 83 566 23 1 15th 16 120
NHL overall 800 59 185 244 1986 140 14th 18th 32 352

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Dupont, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dupont, Andre; Dupont, Moose
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Trois-Rivières , Quebec