Daniel Poulin

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CanadaCanada  Daniel Poulin Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 19, 1957
place of birth Robertsonville , Quebec , Canada
date of death 2nd January 2015
Place of death Québec City , Québec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position defender
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1977 , 11th lap, 167th position
Montréal Canadiens
Career stations
1973-1977 Chicoutimi saguenéens
1977-1988 Kalamazoo Wings
1978-1980 Erie Blades
1980-1981 Oklahoma City Stars
1981-1982 Nashville South Stars
1982-1989 EHC Biel
1989-1990 HC Davos

Daniel "Dan" Poulin (born September 19, 1957 in Robertsonville , Québec ; † January 2, 2015 in Québec City , Québec) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played for EHC Biel and HC Davos in Switzerland during his career .

Career

Daniel Poulin began his career as a hockey player with the Chicoutimi Saguenéens , for which he was active from 1973 to 1977 in the Canadian top junior league Quebec Major Junior Hockey League . Then he was selected in the NHL Amateur Draft 1977 in the eleventh round as a total of 167 players by the Montreal Canadiens , for which he never played. Instead, the defender spent the 1977/78 season with the Kalamazoo Wings and Muskegon Mohawks in the International Hockey League .

In the summer of 1978 Poulin moved to the Erie Blades from the Eastern Hockey League , whose championship he won with his team in 1979 and 1980 twice in a row. After a season with the Oklahoma City Stars in the Central Hockey League , the Canadian signed in 1981 with their league rivals Nashville South Stars , for their cooperation partner, the Minnesota North Stars , he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1981/82 season , scoring a goal and providing an assist in three games. The right-handed shooter then went to Europe, where he received a contract with EHC Biel from the Swiss National League A , with which he won the national championship in the 1982/83 season . For Biel, the former NHL player was on the ice for a total of seven years before he ended his career following the 1989/90 season, which he spent at its league rivals HC Davos .

He then worked as a coach, first he coached HC St. Imier, HC Tramelan and then HC Moutier for nine years. In 2003 he returned to Canada and bought a Swiss chalet on Lac à la Truite near Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts .

Dan Poulin died of skin cancer in Canada in January 2015 at the age of 57.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1976 QMJHL East All-Star Team
  • 1979 EHL champion with the Erie Blades
  • 1979 EHL All-Star Team
  • 1980 EHL champion with the Erie Blades
  • 1980 EHL All-Star Team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bieler Tagblatt , His shot was a pleasure , January 5, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Poulin, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Poulin, Dan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Robertsonville , Quebec, Canada
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 2015
Place of death Quebec City , Quebec