Claude Loiselle

Claude Loiselle
Date of birth	May 29, 1963
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1981 , 2nd round, 23rd position Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1980-1983	Windsor Spitfires
1983-1986	Detroit Red Wings Adirondack Red Wings
1986-1989	New Jersey Devils
1989-1991	Nordiques de Québec
1991-1992	Toronto Maple Leafs
1992-1993	New York Islanders

Claude G. Loiselle (born May 29, 1963 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and official who played 657 games for the Detroit Red Wings , New Jersey Devils , Nordiques de Quebec City , Toronto Maple Leafs and New York Islanders in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center has denied. His greatest career success was celebrated by Loiselle, who after his retirement worked for the NHL itself and numerous franchises as an official for a long time , but in the service of the Adirondack Red Wings by winning the Calder Cups of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1986.

Career

Loiselle spent his junior years between 1980 and 1983 with the Windsor Spitfires in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL). After a successful first year with 94 scorer points in the regular season, the talented striker was selected in the second round of the NHL Entry Draft in 1981 by the Detroit Red Wings in 23rd place. However, he remained in the OHL for two more years and made his first impressions in the National Hockey League (NHL) in February 1982 in the Red Wings jersey . It remained until the end of the season with four missions in the NHL, while he ran up for the Spitfires 68 times and reached 109 points. In his third year in the OHL, he came in 46 games to 88 points, while he was already used in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Detroit Red Wings in the NHL and their farm team , the Adirondack Red Wings . In the end, Loiselle had 315 points scorer in 205 appearances at the end of his junior career.

With the beginning of the 1983/84 season, the Canadian was a permanent part of the Detroit Red Wings organization. However, he did not succeed in the following three years to establish himself there as a regular player and so the offensive player commuted again and again between the NHL squad Detroit and the AHL squad of Adirondack. With the Adirondack Red Wings, Loiselle finally celebrated the greatest success of his career at the end of the 1985/86 season by winning the Calder Cup . The following summer he was transferred to the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Tim Higgins , where he had better chances to get stuck in the NHL. He succeeded in this and so he was in the three years up to the summer of 1989 regular player in New Jersey. With 40 and 35 points in his first two years, he completed the two most successful of his career and also reached the final of the Prince of Wales Conference in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1988 , which was lost to the Boston Bruins .

After his three-year engagement with the New Jersey Devils, Loiselle had an unsteady period with many club changes. First, the offensive player was transferred to the Nordiques de Québec in June 1989 together with Joe Cirella and an eight-round suffrage in the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 , which in return received Walt Poddubny and a four-round suffrage of the same draft. Loiselle ran for the French Canadians until March 1991 before he was put on the waiver list. From there, the Toronto Maple Leafs secured his current contract and employed him for the following twelve months. Then it was given to the New York Islanders together with Daniel Marois in exchange for Ken Baumgartner and Dave McLlwain . A knee injury sustained in November 1993 finally led to his early retirement at the age of 30. For the Islanders he had been on the ice 87 times between March 1992 and November 1993 and in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1993 again in the Prince of Wales Conference finals.

As a result of his early retirement from active sport, Loiselle studied law at McGill University ; he successfully completed his studies in 1998. He was then hired by the National Hockey League, where he worked as Director of Hockey Operations in an official position until 2004 . After a one-year hiatus, the Tampa Bay Lightning secured his services from the NHL in the summer of 2005 and made him assistant general manager under Jay Feaster and his successor Brian Lawton . Loiselle stayed with the Lightning until 2009 and was also general manager of the Norfolk Admirals farm team in the AHL in the 2007/08 season . This was followed in the 2010/11 season as a scout with the Anaheim Ducks , before he was also hired as assistant GM by his ex-club Toronto Maple Leafs. After leaving the position in the summer of 2014, he paused for a year. He then spent a year with the Arizona Coyotes and two years with the New York Islanders as a consultant.

Achievements and Awards

• 1986 Calder Cup win with the Adirondack Red Wings

Career statistics

				Regular season						Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1980/81	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		68	38	56	94	103		11	3	3	6th	40
1981/82	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		68	36	73	109	192		9	2	10	12	42
1981/82	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		4th	1	0	1	2		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Windsor Spitfires	OHL		46	39	49	88	75		3	3	3	6th	11
1982/83	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		18th	2	0	2	15th		-	-	-	-	-
1982/83	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		6th	1	7th	8th	0		6th	2	4th	6th	0
1983/84	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		28	4th	6th	10	32		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		29	13	16	29	59		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		30th	8th	1	9	45		3	0	2	2	0
1984/85	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		47	22nd	29	51	24		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		48	7th	15th	22nd	142		-	-	-	-	-
1985/86	Adirondack Red Wings	AHL		21st	15th	11	26th	32		16	5	10	15th	38
1986/87	New Jersey Devils	NHL		75	16	24	40	137		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	New Jersey Devils	NHL		68	17th	18th	35	118		20th	4th	6th	10	52
1988/89	New Jersey Devils	NHL		74	7th	14th	21st	209		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		72	11	14th	25th	104		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		59	5	10	15th	86		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		7th	1	1	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		64	6th	9	15th	102		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	New York Islanders	NHL		11	1	1	2	13		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	New York Islanders	NHL		41	5	3	8th	90		18th	0	3	3	10
1993/94	New York Islanders	NHL		17th	1	1	2	49		-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				182	113	178	291	370		23	8th	16	24	93
AHL total				103	51	63	114	115		22nd	7th	14th	21st	38
NHL overall				616	92	117	209	1146		41	4th	11	15th	62

( 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 )

Web links

• Claude Loiselle at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
• Claude Loiselle at eliteprospects.com (English)