André Savard

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André Savard
Date of birth February 9 or note
September 2, 1953
place of birth Témiscaming , Québec , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 84 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st lap, 6th position
Boston Bruins
WHA Amateur Draft 1973 , 1st lap, 3rd position
Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1969-1973 Remparts de Quebec
1973-1976 Boston Bruins
1976-1983 Buffalo Sabers
1983-1985 Nordiques de Québec

André Savard (* 9 February or . Note 2. September 1953 in Témiscaming , Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player , - coach - functionary and current - scout . The center played between 1973 and 1985 over 800 games for the Boston Bruins , Buffalo Sabers and Nordiques de Québec in the National Hockey League . He then acted briefly as head coach of the Nordiques and was the general manager of the Canadiens de Montréal .

Career

As a player

In his youth, André Savard played for the Comètes d ' Amos , among others , before he moved to the Remparts de Québec in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), the highest-ranking junior league in his home province, for the 1969/70 season . The attacker spent four extraordinarily successful years wearing the Remparts jersey, winning the LHJMQ playoffs for the Coupe du Président three times (1970, 1971, 1973) and the prestigious Memorial Cup with the team in 1971 . After he had been elected to the Second All-Star Team in 1971 and he had missed large parts of the 1971/72 season due to a knee injury, his personal best year followed in 1972/73, so he led the entire league in scorer points (151) was therefore awarded the Trophée Jean Béliveau as the best scorer and the Trophée Michel Brière as the most valuable player; In addition, there was the election to the First All-Star Team . He was then selected in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft in sixth position by the Boston Bruins and in the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft in third position by the Nordiques de Québec . As a result, the center forward retired due to age from the junior league, with no actor in the history of the first franchise ' the Remparts de Québec (1969-1985) scored more points (451) or templates (279) than the center forward.

At the beginning of the 1973/74 season Savard ran in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Boston Bruins and thus decided against a career with the Nordiques in the World Hockey Association . As a rookie , he reached the Stanley Cup final with the Bruins in 1974 , but was defeated there by the Philadelphia Flyers and should not come any closer to the trophy in his active career. In general, however, he only partially fulfilled the expectations in Boston, so that his rights as a restricted free agent were given to the Buffalo Sabers in exchange for those of Peter McNab after three years . There Savard signed a new contract and increased his personal statistics significantly in his first season 1976/77 to 60 points from 80 games. 1980/81 followed with 31 goals, 43 assists and 74 points, the best performances of his NHL career.

In June 1983 the Sabers including Tony McKegney , Jean-François Sauvé and a third-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft 1983 gave him to the Nordiques de Québec and received in return Réal Cloutier and Québec's first-round suffrage for the same draft. In his homeland, Savard spent two more seasons before ending his playing career. In total, he had completed 875 NHL games and scored 513 points scorer.

As a trainer, functionary and scout

Immediately after the end of his active career, Savard was appointed the new head coach and general manager of the Fredericton Express from the American Hockey League , the farm team of the Nordiques, for the 1985/86 season . After two years he was promoted to head coach of the Nordiques in the NHL, but was released after six months and ten wins from 24 games and replaced by Ron Lapointe . He stayed with the organization initially as a scout , as a director of player development and later as an assistant coach until he moved to the Ottawa Senators in 1994 . There he worked as Director of Scouting until 1999 and as an assistant coach for another year before he took over as Director of Player Personnel at the Canadiens de Montréal in the 2000/01 season . They dismissed their general manager Réjean Houle a little later , so that Savard succeeded him and managed the fate of the Canadiens until 2003, when he was made assistant to the new general manager Bob Gainey .

In 2006, the Canadian moved to the Pittsburgh Penguins and worked there as the assistant to head coach Michel Therrien , whom he had fired from the Canadiens in 2003. Together they were relieved of their duties in the middle of the 2008/09 season, with Savard staying with the team as a scout until he was hired by the New Jersey Devils in the same function for the 2015/16 season and has been working for them ever since.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1969/70 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 56 23 60 83 126 14th 9 13 22nd 30th
1970 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 12 8th 9 17th 37
1970/71 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 61 50 89 139 150 14th 9 17th 26th 56
1971 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 6th 2 7th 9 9
1971/72 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 33 32 46 78 103 - - - - - -
1972/73 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 56 67 84 151 147 15th 18th 24 42 33
1973 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 3 2 3 5 18th
1973/74 Boston Bruins NHL 72 16 14th 30th +16 39 16 3 2 5 +3 24
1974/75 Boston Bruins NHL 77 19th 25th 44 +16 45 3 1 1 2 +4 2
1975/76 Boston Bruins NHL 79 17th 23 40 +4 60 12 1 4th 5 -5 9
1976/77 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 25th 35 60 +11 30th 6th 0 1 1 -1 2
1977/78 Buffalo Sabers NHL 80 19th 20th 39 +1 40 6th 0 0 0 ± 0 4th
1978/79 Buffalo Sabers NHL 65 18th 22nd 40 +2 20th 3 0 2 2 +2 2
1979/80 Rochester Americans AHL 25th 11 17th 28 4th - - - - - -
1979/80 Buffalo Sabers NHL 33 3 10 13 +4 16 8th 1 1 2 -1 2
1980/81 Buffalo Sabers NHL 79 31 43 74 +33 63 8th 4th 2 6th +3 17th
1981/82 Buffalo Sabers NHL 62 18th 20th 38 +5 24 4th 0 1 1 -1 5
1982/83 Buffalo Sabers NHL 68 16 25th 41 +11 28 10 0 4th 4th ± 0 8th
1983/84 Nordiques de Québec NHL 60 20th 24 44 +17 38 9 3 0 3 -3 2
1984/85 Nordiques de Québec NHL 35 9 10 19th ± 0 8th - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 206 172 279 451 526 43 36 54 90 119
Memorial Cup overall 21st 12 19th 31 64
NHL overall 790 211 271 482 +120 411 85 13 18th 31 +1 77

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Pt space Sp S. N result
1987/88 Nordiques de Québec NHL 24 10 13 1 21st dismiss - - - -
NHL overall 24 10 13 1 21st 0 division title - - - 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Web links

annotation

NoteAll relevant databases list (in roughly equal parts) one of these two dates of birth. This error was caused by the ambiguous interpretation of the date format 1953-02-09 or 1953-09-02, so that the month and day were mixed up.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andre Savard, Claude Noel named pro scouts. nhl.com, August 4, 2015, accessed January 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Savard, André
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Savard, Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach, official and scout
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1953 or September 2, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Témiscaming , Québec , Canada