Christian Bordeleau

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Christian Bordeleau
Date of birth September 23, 1947
place of birth Noranda , Quebec , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 69 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1963-1967 Canadien junior de Montréal
1967-1969 Houston Apollos
1969-1970 Canadiens de Montréal
1970-1972 St. Louis Blues
1972 Chicago Black Hawks
1972-1974 Winnipeg Jets
1974-1979 Nordiques de Québec
1979-1980 Salt Lake Golden Eagles

Christian Gerrard "Chris" Bordeleau (born September 23, 1947 in Noranda , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 224 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , St. Louis Blues and Chicago Black during his active career between 1963 and 1980 Hawks in the National Hockey League (NHL) and 466 other games for the Winnipeg Jets and Nordiques de Québec in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on the position of the center . Bordeleau is one of the few players who have won both the Stanley Cup of the NHL and the Avco World Trophy of the WHA during their career .

Career

Bordeleau spent his junior years between 1963 and 1967 with the Canadien junior de Montréal , who were playing in the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) at that time . The Junior Canadiens acted as the Canadiens de Montréal's junior team from the National Hockey League (NHL), so the transfer rights of the junior striker were with the Canadiens. Within the four years in the junior squad, Bordeleau completed 175 games, in which he recommended himself for a professional career with 181 scorer points . Due to injuries, however, he missed parts of the 1965/66 and 1966/67 seasons.

For the 1967/68 season , the 20-year-old moved - as was usual at that time - to the professional field. However, he failed to earn a place in the high-quality squad of the Canadiens de Montréal, so he spent the first two years of his professional career with the Houston Apollos farm team in the Central Hockey League (CHL). Only at the end of the season 1968/69 did the attacker debut for the Canadiens in the NHL. He played a total of 19 games for the franchise , including six in the 1969 Stanley Cup playoffs . At the end of it, Bordeleau won the Stanley Cup with the team . In the following season, the short Bordeleau was part of the Canadiens' extended squad and played 48 games. Nevertheless, the management of Montréals did not plan long-term with him and so the Canadiens sold him in May 1970 to league rivals St. Louis Blues .

In St. Louis, the French-Canadian was finally able to establish himself as a regular in the NHL. He was on the ice in 78 games and scored 53 times. After he could not build on the performances shown in the previous year in the 1971/72 season , he was transferred to the Chicago Black Hawks in February 1972 in exchange for Danny O'Shea . In Chicago, Bordeleau played briefly with his younger brother Jean-Pierre before he left the team after only 33 games in the summer of 1972 and switched to the newly founded World Hockey Association (WHA), which was built as a competitive league to the NHL . Chicago transferred him meanwhile in the NHL in September 1972 back to the St. Louis Blues, which John Garrett made for it .

In the WHA, Bordeleau went hunting for goals for the Winnipeg Jets at the beginning of the 1972/73 season . These had bought his WHA transfer rights from the Los Angeles Sharks in August 1972 after Los Angeles itself had received the rights in the context of the WHA General Player Draft held in February 1972 . In his very first season, the offensive player demonstrated his qualities and placed himself among the ten best scorer points of the season with 101 points. He also reached the final series for the Avco World Trophy in the playoffs with Winnipeg , which they lost to the New England Whalers with 1: 4. After another year with the Jets, Bordeleau was transferred to the Nordiques de Québec in exchange for Alain Beaulé in December 1975 , where he subsequently spent the most successful period of his career. From 1976 he played there together with his brother Paulin and in the 1975/76 and 1976/77 seasons again exceeded the mark of 100 scorer points. Both he and his brother were instrumental in winning the Avco World Trophy in 1977, making Bordeleau one of the few players who could win both the Stanley Cup and the Avco World Trophy in their careers. After all, he played in the Franco-Canadian metropolis until the WHA was dissolved at the end of the 1978/79 season .

Due to the dissolution of the WHA and the inclusion of the Nordiques de Québec as one of four franchises in the NHL for the 1979/80 season , a conflict of interests arose between the Nordiques and the St. Louis Blues, the Bordeleaus NHL , in the run-up to the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft -Transfer rights had been in possession again since September 1972. The Blues invoked their prerogative and demanded the services of the Canadian, so that in the 1979/80 season he again belonged to the St. Louis Blues organization. After playing only 16 games for Québec the previous year due to injury, he ended his career as an active player after eleven games for St. Louis' farm team Salt Lake Golden Eagles in the CHL at the age of 33 due to persistent injury problems. In 2012 he was inducted into the WHA Hall of Fame .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1963/64 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 49 16 18th 34 - - - - - -
1964/65 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 50 28 28 56 - - - - - -
1965/66 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 43 16 48 64 57 - - - - -
1966/67 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 33 8th 19th 27 30th - - - - -
1967/68 Houston Apollos CPHL 68 23 28 51 22nd - - - - -
1968/69 Houston Apollos CHL 54 21st 36 57 33 - - - - -
1968/69 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 13 1 3 4th 4th 6th 1 0 1 0
1969/70 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 48 2 13 15th 18th - - - - -
1970/71 St. Louis Blues NHL 78 21st 32 53 48 5 0 1 1 17th
1971/72 St. Louis Blues NHL 41 8th 9 17th 6th - - - - -
1971/72 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 25th 6th 8th 14th 6th 8th 3 6th 9 0
1972/73 Winnipeg Jets WHA 78 47 54 101 12 12 5 8th 13 4th
1973/74 Winnipeg Jets WHA 75 26th 49 75 22nd 3 3 2 5 0
1974/75 Winnipeg Jets WHA 18th 8th 8th 16 0 - - - - -
1974/75 Nordiques de Québec WHA 53 15th 33 48 24 15th 2 13 15th 2
1975/76 Nordiques de Québec WHA 74 37 72 109 42 5 1 1 2 4th
1976/77 Nordiques de Québec WHA 73 32 75 107 34 8th 4th 5 9 0
1977/78 Nordiques de Québec WHA 26th 9 22nd 31 28 10 1 5 6th 6th
1978/79 Nordiques de Québec WHA 16 5 12 17th 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Salt Lake Golden Eagles CHL 11 3 6th 9 4th - - - - -
OHA total 175 68 113 181 87 - - - - -
CPHL / CHL total 133 47 70 117 59 - - - - -
NHL overall 205 38 65 103 82 19th 4th 7th 11 17th
WHA total 413 179 325 504 162 53 16 34 50 16

( 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 )

family

Bordeleau's younger brothers, Jean-Pierre and Paulin , were also professional ice hockey players. Jean-Pierre spent his entire career between 1970 and 1980 in the service of the Chicago Black Hawks in the National Hockey League (NHL), where he played three games with his brother Christian in the 1971/72 season . In total, he completed over 550 NHL games. Paulin was active in both the NHL and WHA. He played with Christian between 1976 and 1979 for the Nordiques de Québec . There they won the Avco World Trophy together in 1977 . In the NHL, he previously appeared for the Vancouver Canucks over 180 times , while he was on the ice over 260 times in the WHA. He later spent many years in France, with whose national team he took part in the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , Canada .

Christian Bordeleau's nephews and sons of Paulin, Sébastien and Paulin junior , also made the leap into professional ice hockey. While Sébastien came to over 250 NHL games, his younger brother was only briefly active as a professional in the French Ligue Magnus .

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personal data
SURNAME Bordeleau, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bordeleau, Christian Gerrard (full name); Bordeleau, Chris
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Noranda , Quebec , Canada