Dan Bouchard

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CanadaCanada  Dan Bouchard Ice hockey player
Date of birth December 12, 1950
place of birth Val-d'Or , Quebec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 2nd round, 27th position
Boston Bruins
Career stations
1968-1969 Éperviers de Sorel
1969-1970 London Knights
1970-1971 Hershey Bears
1971-1972 Boston Braves
1972-1980 Atlanta Flames
1980-1981 Calgary Flames
1981-1985 Nordiques de Québec
1985-1986 Winnipeg Jets
1986 Friborg-Gottéron

Daniel Hector "Dan" Bouchard (born December 12, 1950 in Val-d'Or , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach who played 698 games for the Atlanta Flames and / or the Atlanta Flames between 1968 and 1986. Has contested the Calgary Flames , Nordiques de Québec and Winnipeg Jets in the National Hockey League . However, Bouchard celebrated his greatest career success in the jersey of the Canadian national team by winning the bronze medal at the 1978 World Cup .

Career

Bouchard worked between 1968 and 1969 in the forerunner league of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) for the Éperviers de Sorel , which he led to participate in the prestigious Memorial Cup . There he reached the semifinals with the team, where they failed at the eventual winner, the Canadien junior de Montréal . The goalkeeper then moved to the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) for the London Knights , where he was a regular goalkeeper in the 1969/70 season. After the season, the talent was selected in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft in the second round in 27th place by the Boston Bruins from the National Hockey League (NHL).

Bouchard's goalkeeper mask from the 1971/72 season on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto

The Bruins, who were very well filled with Gerry Cheevers and Eddie Johnston on the goalkeeper position, used Bouchard in the American Hockey League (AHL) at the beginning of the 1970/71 season . There he first spent a year in the Hershey Bears farm team , where he shared the tasks with André Gill . In the following season, the Canadian was then used as a goalkeeper for the Boston Braves . Together with Ross Brooks , he led the team to the best record at the end of the regular season . The duo, which conceded the fewest goals in the course of the season, contributed significantly and consequently received the Harry “Hap” Holmes Memorial Award for this performance. Bouchard also found himself in the AHL First All-Star Team . Nevertheless, he remained due to the competitive situation in the squad of the Boston Bruins in these two seasons without NHL use and therefore went unprotected in the 1972 NHL Expansion Draft , where he was selected by the newly formed Atlanta Flames .

Bouchard found a sporting home in Atlanta for the next eight years. At the beginning of the 1972/73 season, the 21-year-old formed an equal goalkeeper duo with Phil Myre , who was only two years older than Phil Myre , and in which both goalkeepers guarded the goal around 40 times per game year. With the transfer of Myres in December 1977, Bouchard took over the post of goalkeeper during the 1977/78 season . His 58 appearances in that season he increased to 64 the following year. Since he won half of his bets, he was the goalkeeper with the most wins among all NHL goalkeepers at the end of the 1978/79 season . It wasn't until the NHL 1979/80 that he got a more serious competitor, Pat Riggin , as a substitute. Nevertheless, he again completed 53 games. After the season he moved the franchise to Calgary , Canada , where it continued gaming as the Calgary Flames . Under the new management, Bouchard's role as number 1 was no longer so clear with the start of the first season after the move, and Riggin and Réjean Lemelin were given more working hours. Thereupon the Canadian initiated in January 1981 after consultation with General Manager Cliff Fletcher himself a transfer to the Nordiques de Québec , who exchanged him for Jamie Hislop .

At the bottom of the league from his home province of Québec , Bouchard immediately took over the regular post in the gate from his opponent Michel Plasse . With 19 wins in 29 games, he reached the playoffs with the team at the end of the regular season, but where they failed in the first round. In the following three years, the goalkeeper was instrumental in ensuring that the Nordiques qualified for the playoffs. In the course of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1982 , the team advanced to the final of the Eastern Conference , where they lost 4-0 to the eventual Stanley Cup winner New York Islanders in the series. For the 1984/85 season , the now 33-year-old lost his regular post to the up-and-coming talent Mario Gosselin and Richard Sévigny . With 29 season appearances, he completed the fewest games of his 13-year NHL career. Since he was by far the oldest of the trio and with Clint Malarchuk another goalkeeper insisted on more playing time, Bouchard was soon after the start of the 1985/86 season in October 1985 in exchange for a seven-round suffrage in the 1986 NHL Entry Draft to Winnipeg Jets transferred. There he finished his 14th and final NHL season as a substitute for Brian Hayward . In the following game year, he let his career in Switzerland with Friborg-Gottéron in the National League A , for which he was three times between the posts, to end. At the same time he worked there as a goalkeeper coach. A serious knee injury, which forced him to retire, prevented more missions.

After retiring , Bouchard returned to the United States and settled in the state of Georgia . In March 1990, he underwent a 14-hour operation that successfully removed a brain tumor . Already at the beginning of the 1990/91 season he returned to the ice hockey business after a total of three years and was employed as a goalkeeping coach at his former club Nordiques de Québec in the NHL until the end of the 1994/95 season . He was then head coach of the ice hockey team at Life University in Marietta , Georgia, for 17 seasons from 1995 to 2012 . The program participated in Division II play of the American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA). Between 1997 and 2002 Bouchard won five national championship titles with the team.

International

For his home country, Bouchard took part with the Canadian national team at the 1978 World Cup in the Czechoslovak capital, Prague . There he formed an equal goalkeeper duo with Denis Herron . Bouchard was used in six of the ten Canadian tournament games and won the bronze medal with the team at the end of the tournament. In the six tournament games, however, he only went off the ice twice as the winner.

Two years earlier, the goalkeeper had already been part of Canada's expanded squad for the 1976 Canada Cup , but was ultimately not nominated for the tournament squad and was subsequently retained in the training squad.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS Sv% Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS Sv%
1968/69 Éperviers de Sorel LHJQ Statistics not available
1969 Éperviers de Sorel Memorial Cup 19th 14th 5 0 1140 65 1 3.42
1969/70 London Knights OHA 41 2452 159 2 3.89 12 4th 5 3 711 48 0 4.05
1970/71 Hershey Bears AHL 36 12 16 2 2029 106 1 3.13 - - - - - - - - -
1971/72 Boston Braves AHL 50 27 13 7th 2915 122 4th 2.51 6th 2 3 - 311 14th 0 2.70
1971/72 Oklahoma City Blazers CHL 1 1 0 0 60 3 0 3.00 - - - - - - - - -
1972/73 Atlanta Flames NHL 34 9 15th 10 1944 100 2 3.09 90.7 - - - - - - - - -
1973/74 Atlanta Flames NHL 46 19th 18th 8th 2660 123 5 2.77 90.9 1 0 1 - 60 4th 0 4.00 84.6
1974/75 Atlanta Flames NHL 40 20th 15th 5 2400 111 3 2.78 91.4 - - - - - - - - -
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 47 19th 17th 8th 2671 113 2 2.54 91.1 2 0 2 - 120 3 0 1.50 94.2
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 42 17th 17th 5 2378 139 1 3.51 87.7 1 0 1 - 60 5 0 5.00 80.0
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 58 25th 12 19th 3340 153 2 2.75 89.4 2 0 2 - 120 7th 0 3.50 85.1
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 64 32 21st 7th 3624 201 3 3.33 88.9 2 0 2 - 100 9 0 5.40 81.3
1979/80 Atlanta Flames NHL 53 23 19th 10 3076 163 2 3.18 89.7 4th 1 3 - 241 14th 0 3.49 88.0
1980/81 Calgary Flames NHL 14th 4th 5 3 760 51 0 4.03 88.4 - - - - - - - - -
1980/81 Nordiques de Québec NHL 29 19th 5 5 1740 92 2 3.17 89.5 5 2 3 - 286 19th 1 3.99 88.1
1981/82 Nordiques de Québec NHL 60 27 22nd 11 3572 230 1 3.86 86.6 11 4th 7th - 677 38 0 3.37 89.4
1982/83 Nordiques de Québec NHL 50 20th 21st 8th 2947 197 1 4.01 87.5 4th 1 3 - 242 11 0 2.73 90.9
1983/84 Nordiques de Québec NHL 57 29 18th 8th 3373 180 1 3.20 88.2 9 5 4th - 543 25th 0 2.76 88.8
1984/85 Nordiques de Québec NHL 29 12 13 4th 1738 101 0 3.49 87.7 1 0 1 - 60 7th 0 7.00 70.8
1985/86 Winnipeg Jets NHL 32 11 14th 2 1696 107 2 3.79 86.5 1 0 1 - 40 5 0 7.50 77.3
1986/87 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 3 151 7th 0 2.78 - - - - - - - - -
AHL total 86 39 29 9 4944 228 5 2.76 6th 2 3 - 311 14th 0 2.70
NHL overall 655 286 232 113 37.919 2061 27 3.26 89.0 43 13 30th - 2549 147 1 3.46 88.0

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp S. N U Min GT SO GTS
1978 Canada WM 3rd place, bronze 6th 2 4th 0 344 24 0 4.19
Men overall 6th 2 4th 0 344 24 0 4.19

( Legend for the goalkeeper statistics: GP or Sp = total games; W or S = wins; L or N = defeats; T or U or OT = draws or overtime or shootout defeats; min. = Minutes; SOG or SaT = shots on goal; GA or GT = goals conceded; SO = shutouts ; GAA or GTS = goals conceded ; Sv% or SVS% = catch quota ; EN = empty net goal ; 1  play-downs / relegation ; italics : statistics not complete)

Web links

Commons : Dan Bouchard  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Dan Bouchard. greatesthockeylegends.com, February 2008, accessed May 8, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bouchard, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouchard, Daniel Hector (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Val-d'Or , Quebec , Canada