Dan Daoust

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CanadaCanada  Dan Daoust Ice hockey player
Date of birth February 29, 1960
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 72 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1977-1980 Cornwall Royals
1980-1982 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1982 Canadiens de Montréal
1982-1990 Toronto Maple Leafs
1990-1991 HC Ajoie
1991-1992 EHC Biel
SC Lyss
ESV Kaufbeuren
1992-1997 HC Thurgau

Daniel Armand Daoust (* 29. February 1960 in Montreal , Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches , who during his playing career from 1977 to 1997 among other 554 games for the Montreal Canadiens and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . He also spent much of his career in Switzerland, where he mainly in the National League B was active.

Career

Daoust spent his junior years between 1977 and 1980 with the Cornwall Royals in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . Although the striker in his second and third year reached the mark of 40 goals, he remained in the NHL Entry Draft due to its small size and weight of the franchises of the National Hockey League unnoticed. With the Royals, he won both the Coupe du Président of the LHJMQ and the Memorial Cup in 1980, before moving to the professional field in the summer of 1980.

The attacker signed a contract with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League , for which he collected 98 scorer points in his rookie season and was elected to the AHL First All-Star Team . The win of the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award was denied to him, however, because Pelle Lindbergh won it. Instead, Daoust received a contract from the Canadiens de Montréal from the NHL because of his services . This left him in the following year with the Voyageurs before he made his debut for the Canadiens at the beginning of the 1982/83 season . Daoust's time in his hometown came to an end after four missions in December 1982 when he was given to the Toronto Maple Leafs in exchange for a third-round vote in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft .

For the Maple Leafs, Daoust went on the ice for the next seven and a half seasons until the summer of 1990. In his first year he scored 52 points - including one for Montréal - and was called up to the NHL All-Rookie Team . In the following two years, the French-Canadian was able to prove his qualities with 74 and 54 scorer points. With the beginning of the 1985/86 season , however, his point yield dropped drastically and by the end of the 1989/90 season he only reached the 20-point mark once and never more than nine goals.

After the striker's contract was not renewed in the summer of 1990, he ventured a fresh start in Europe . He moved to Switzerland and went there in the 1990/91 season for HC Ajoie in the National League B on the ice. With 67 points in 37 games, he found his lost qualities as a goal scorer and preparer again. This was followed by a season with league competitor SC Lyss , in which he also played for EHC Biel in National League A and ESV Kaufbeuren in the ice hockey Bundesliga . From the game year 1992/93 Daoust found a new sporting home in HC Thurgau from the NLB. He ran for a total of five years for the club from Weinfelden , whose top scorer he was in the first four seasons. He also won the prestigious Spengler Cup with Team Canada in 1995 . After the 1996/97 season , Daoust finally retired from active sport at the age of 37.

As a result, Daoust took for the 1997/98 season the assistant coach position with the Hamilton Bulldogs from the AHL, where he worked under head coach Lorne Molleken . This engagement ended after one season, as Molleken moved to the Chicago Blackhawks and the coaching team was then completely replaced. After that, Daoust was only sporadically behind the gang as a junior coach.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1977/78 Cornwall Royals LHJMQ 68 24 44 68 74 2 1 2 3 7th
1978/79 Cornwall Royals LHJMQ 72 42 55 97 85 7th 2 4th 6th 29
1979/80 Cornwall Royals LHJMQ 70 40 62 102 82 18th 5 9 14th 36
1980 Cornwall Royals Memorial Cup 5 1 4th 5 8th
1980/81 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 80 38 60 98 106 6th 1 3 4th 10
1981/82 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 61 25th 40 65 75 9 5 2 7th 11
1982/83 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 4th 0 1 1 4th - - - - -
1982/83 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 48 18th 33 51 31 - - - - -
1983/84 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 78 18th 56 74 88 - - - - -
1984/85 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 79 17th 37 54 98 - - - - -
1985/86 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 80 7th 13 20th 88 10 2 2 4th 19th
1986/87 Newmarket Saints AHL 1 0 0 0 4th - - - - -
1986/87 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 33 4th 3 7th 35 13 5 2 7th 42
1987/88 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 67 9 8th 17th 57 4th 0 0 0 2
1988/89 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 68 7th 5 12 54 - - - - -
1989/90 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 65 7th 11 18th 89 5 0 1 1 20th
1990/91 HC Ajoie NLB 27 21st 32 53 106 10 6th 8th 14th 17th
1991/92 SC Lyss NLB 25th 24 16 40 58 9 3 6th 9 44
1991/92 EHC Biel NLA 5 5 9 14th 8th - - - - -
1991/92 ESV Kaufbeuren Bundesliga 7th 2 0 2 14th - - - - -
1992/93 HC Thurgau NLB 36 23 31 54 123 5 1 4th 5 9 8th
1993/94 HC Thurgau NLB 36 21st 26th 47 97 2 0 1 1 2
1994/95 HC Thurgau NLB 36 23 42 65 105 6th 7th 5 12 41
1995/96 HC Thurgau NLB 36 25th 40 65 50 5 3 6th 9 10
1996/97 HC Thurgau NLB 19th 10 24 34 20th 3 1 1 2 8th
LHJMQ total 210 106 161 267 241 27 8th 15th 23 72
AHL total 142 63 100 163 185 15th 6th 5 11 21st
NHL overall 522 87 167 254 544 32 7th 5 12 83
NLB total 215 147 211 358 559 40 24 32 56 130

( 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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personal data
SURNAME Daoust, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Daoust, Daniel Armand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec