Benoît Laporte (ice hockey player)
 Benoît Laporte 
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| Date of birth | June 14, 1960 |
| place of birth | Montreal , Quebec , Canada |
| size | 180 cm |
| Weight | 80 kg |
| position | Left wing |
| Shot hand | Left |
| Career stations | |
| 1977-1988 | Hull Olympiques |
| 1978 | Shawinigan Cataractes |
| 1978-1979 | Trois-Rivières Draveurs |
| 1979-1980 | Hull Olympiques |
| 1980-1981 | New Brunswick Hawks |
| 1981-1982 | Cincinnati Tigers |
| 1982-1983 | Saginaw Gears |
| 1983-1984 | Carolina Thunderbirds |
| 1987-1989 | Briançon Alpes Provence HC |
| 1989-1997 | Rouen Hockey Elite 76 |
Benoit Laporte (* 14. June 1960 in Montreal , Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player with a French passport , who during his playing career from 1977 to 1997, among other things for the New Brunswick Hawks and the St. Catharines Saints in the American Hockey League played Has. He works as a coach and was most recently head coach of the Hungarian club Alba Volán Székesfehérvár , which plays in the EBEL, until November 2017 .
Player career
Laporte began his career as a hockey player in 1977 in the Canadian Junior League Québec Major Junior Hockey League with the Hull Olympiques . However, he stayed there for only one season and left the club after 71 games in which he was able to achieve 67 points scorer again. In the summer of 1978 he signed a contract with the Shawinigan Cataractes . During the current season he moved within the league to the Trois-Rivières Draveurs . After another career stint at the Hull Olympiques, he joined the New Brunswick Hawks, the then farm team of the Chicago Black Hawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs , from the American Hockey League at the end of the 1979/80 season . In the following years he changed clubs several times and went on the ice in the 1982/83 season for the St. Catharines Saints from the AHL.
After a break of several years, Laporte was active from 1987 for HC Briançon in the top French division, Ligue Magnus . There he was one of the team's best scorers. In two years he completed 75 games and scored 172 points. In the 1989/90 season, the management of the Dragons de Rouen was able to convince him of a commitment. The trained striker remained loyal to his new employer until 1997 - with the exception of the 1994/95 season, in which he did not play ice hockey - and then ended his active ice hockey career in Rouen. With the Dragons he was French champion four times (1990, 1992, 1993 and 1994).
International
In 1990 he was nominated for the first time for the French national team , with which he took part in the B World Cup in France in the same year . There he missed promotion to the A-WM with his team. However, this was realized a year later, during the B-WM 1991 in Yugoslavia .
It was followed by three participations in the A World Championships in the years 1992 , 1993 and 1994 as well as the participation in the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville and 1994 in Lillehammer . In total, he played 45 full international matches for the French national team and was able to achieve 22 scorer points.
Achievements and Awards
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International
- 1991 Promotion to the A world championship at the B world championship
AHL statistics
| Seasons | Games | Gates | Assists | Points | Penalty minutes | |
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| Regular season | 3 | 50 | 10 | 9 | 19th | 52 |
| Playoffs | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4th |
Coaching career
Already in his last season in Rouen 1996/97 Laporte was active as a player-coach in the Ligue Magnus . Then he was head coach from 1997 to 2000 at the Lausanne Hockey Club in the Swiss National League B . From 2000 to 2003 he was behind the gang at the Italian first division club Asiago Hockey . For the 2003/04 season , Benoît Laporte took over the position of trainer for the Augsburg Panthers from the German Ice Hockey League. He stayed with AEV until the summer of 2005, before accepting a contract offer from league rival Nürnberg Ice Tigers . In Nuremberg he was able to celebrate the greatest successes of his coaching career so far. In the 2006/07 season he was able to reach the play-off final with the Ice Tigers, where they lost to the Adler Mannheim . Thus he won the German runner- up with his team .
After he took first place with the Ice Tigers after the main round of the 2007/08 season and was then eliminated in the play-off quarter-finals, he had to resign in early April 2008. He then looked after the EHC Basel from the Swiss National League A during the playouts. For the 2008/09 season he returned to the DEL, where he signed a two-year contract as head coach at ERC Ingolstadt . He was released in late November 2008 due to unsuccessfulness. From the 2009/10 season he coached the Swiss NLA club HC Ambrì-Piotta until he was dismissed in October 2010 and replaced by the American Kevin Constantine . In December 2010 Laporte returned to the German Ice Hockey League and took over the coaching position at the Hamburg Freezers from Stéphane Richer , who was previously both coach and sports director in Hamburg and remained sports director even after Laporte's engagement. In September 2014 he was released from Hamburg.
In April 2015 it was announced that Laporte will succeed Bengt-Åke Gustafsson as head coach at the SCL Tigers and will be there in the National League A from the 2015/16 season . He was fired by the Tigers on March 14, 2016 following a 4-9 defeat. From the previous seven games, the team had only achieved one victory under Laporte's leadership.
In August 2016, he took up the post of head coach at Alba Volán Székesfehérvár , the Hungarian member of the Austrian Ice Hockey League , and succeeded Tyler Dietrich , who had asked for his contract to be terminated during the preparation for the season. In November 2017, he was dismissed due to poor seasonal performance.
Web links
- Benoît Laporte at hockeydb.com (English)
- Benoît Laporte at eurohockey.com
- Benoît Laporte at eliteprospects.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ nzz.ch Benoît Laporte new trainer ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ SCL Tigers separate from Benoît Laporte. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . Retrieved March 14, 2016 .
- ^ Koroknai Gergely: Benoit Laporte lett a Fehérvár AV19 új vezetőedzője. Retrieved August 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Next coach change in the EBEL: Fehervar puts Benoit Laporte in front of the door. In: sportreport.biz. November 30, 2017. Retrieved December 6, 2017 .
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| SURNAME | Laporte, Benoît |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laporte, Benoit |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-French ice hockey player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 14, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec , Canada |