Bob Girard

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CanadaCanada  Bob Girard Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 12, 1948
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
date of death 5th November 2017
Place of death L'Épiphanie , Québec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 82 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1972-1973 As de Amqui
1973 Charlotte Checkers
1973-1975 Salt Lake Golden Eagles
1975-1976 California Golden Seals
1976-1977 Cleveland Barons
1977-1979 Washington Capitals
1979-1980 Hershey Bears
1980-1981 HC Lugano

M. Robert "Bob" Girard (born April 12, 1948 in Montreal , Québec ; † November 5, 2017 in L'Épiphanie , Québec) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 305 games for played the California Golden Seals , Cleveland Barons and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League (NHL) as the left winger . However, Girard celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Hershey Bearsby winning the American Hockey League (AHL) Calder Cup in 1980.

Career

Girard appeared late in the ice hockey business. As a 25-year-old he had played for the As de Amqui in the Ligue de hockey senior du Québec (LHSQ) before he was signed as a free agent by the California Golden Seals from the National Hockey League (NHL) before the 1973/74 season was. But before they brought the winger into the NHL, the Golden Seals first used him in their farm teams . So he first played a few games for the Charlotte Checkers in the Southern Hockey League (SHL). He was then active in the same season for the Salt Lake Golden Eagles . He wore their jersey until the end of the 1974/75 season , after he had moved with the franchise from the Western Hockey League (WHL) to the Central Hockey League (CHL) in the summer of 1974 .

With the beginning of the game year 1975/76 Girard was finally in the squad of the California Golden Seals and completed his first NHL season at the age of 27, in which he was used 80 times and collected a remarkable 42 scorer points . In August 1976 he moved the franchise from California to Cleveland , Ohio , where it continued gaming under the name Cleveland Barons . After the attacker's offensive yield halved at the end of the 1976/77 season and he disappointed with only four assists in the first 26 games of the following season, a transfer to the Washington Capitals followed in December 1977 . Together with a second-round suffrage in the 1978 NHL Amateur Draft , he moved there in exchange for Walt McKechnie .

In the US capital, Girard regained a foothold in the league and collected 23 points in 52 games over the rest of the season. He improved this value by one point in the following season, but he needed almost 30 more games. For the 1979/80 season , the offensive player was finally given up by the Capitals to their farm team, the Hershey Bears , in the American Hockey League (AHL). There he ended his last professional playing time in North America by winning the Calder Cup . The winger then ended his career for a year in Switzerland, where he played for HC Lugano in the National League B (NLB).

Girard died in November 2017 at the age of 69 in L'Épiphanie in his home province of Québec .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 As de Amqui LHSQ 45 18th 33 51 - - - - -
1973/74 Charlotte Checkers SHL 23 5 17th 22nd 12 - - - - -
1973/74 Salt Lake Golden Eagles WHL 50 2 19th 21st 37 1 0 0 0 2
1974/75 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 74 13 32 45 60 11 0 2 2 10
1975/76 California Golden Seals NHL 80 16 26th 42 54 - - - - -
1976/77 Cleveland Barons NHL 68 11 10 21st 33 - - - - -
1976/77 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 4th 2 6th 8th 0 - - - - -
1977/78 Cleveland Barons NHL 25th 0 4th 4th 11 - - - - -
1977/78 Washington Capitals NHL 52 9 14th 23 6th - - - - -
1978/79 Washington Capitals NHL 79 9 15th 24 36 - - - - -
1979/80 Washington Capitals NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Hershey Bears AHL 74 15th 26th 41 63 16 5 5 10 6th
1980/81 HC Lugano NLB Statistics not available
CHL total 78 15th 38 53 60 11 0 2 2 10
NHL overall 305 45 69 114 140 - - - - -

( 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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