Dollard St. Laurent

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Dollard St. Laurent
Date of birth May 12, 1929
place of birth Verdun , Quebec , Canada
date of death April 6, 2015
Place of death Belœil , Québec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 82 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1947-1949 Canadien junior de Montréal
1949-1951 Royaux de Montréal
1951-1958 Canadiens de Montréal
1958–1962 Chicago Black Hawks
1962-1963 As de Québec

Joseph Dollard Hervé Saint-Laurent (born May 12, 1929 in Verdun , Québec ; † April 6, 2015 in Belœil , Québec) was a Canadian ice hockey player who played 744 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and Chicago Black Hawks has played in the National Hockey League on the position of defender . During his eleven seasons in the NHL St. Laurent won a total of five Stanley Cups - between 1953 and 1958 four times with the Canadiens de Montréal and in 1961 once again with the Chicago Black Hawks.

Career

St. Laurent, who was born in Verdun , an arrondissement of Montreal , spent his junior years between 1947 and 1949 with the Canadien junior de Montréal . With these he played for two years in the Ligue de hockey junior du Québec , the predecessor of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . There the defender made it to the league's First All-Star Team at the end of the 1948/49 season, after collecting 46 scorer points in 48 games . Among them were 15 goals. In the previous year, he had missed most of the game year due to a broken collarbone .

For the 1949/50 season, the French-Canadian switched to the professional field within the city limits and belonged to the Royaux de Montréal from the Ligue de hockey senior du Québec , who were in cooperation with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League , for the following three years . on. With his performances there he also drew the attention of the sister club. So he came to his first three missions for the team in the 1950/51 game year before he completed 49 games, including the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1952 , in the following year . From the summer of 1952, St. Laurent was part of the Canadiens' NHL squad and won the Stanley Cup four times with them in 1953 , 1956 , 1957 and 1958 . The defender took part in the NHL All-Star Game just as often .

As a result of the fourth Cup win with the Canadiens de Montreal St. Laurent was the league rivals in June 1958 Chicago Blackhawks sold, the as further obligation under the transfer business from February 1959 also Norm Johnson at Montreal's farm team Rochester Americans from the American Hockey League until the end of the season. The Black Hawks tried in the following years to build a powerful team to bring the first Stanley Cup since 1938 to Chicago. This finally succeeded at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1961 , when the defensive player was in his third year with the Chicago Black Hawks. He let follow another and last year in the NHL before he returned to his Franco-Canadian homeland in September 1962. From the Black Hawks he was sold to the As de Québec from the AHL. The left-handed shooter played there one more season before he declared his active career over in the summer of 1963 at the age of 34.

After the end of his career, St. Laurent worked as an insurance and finance businessman. St. Laurent died in April 2015 a few weeks before his 86th birthday in his adopted home Belœil in the province of Québec . His health had steadily deteriorated since 2007 when he underwent triple bypass surgery.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1947/48 Canadien junior de Montréal LHJQ 15th 3 10 13 12 - - - - -
1948/49 Canadien junior de Montréal LHJQ 44 15th 27 42 77 4th 0 4th 4th 8th
1949/50 Royaux de Montréal LHSQ 45 7th 15th 22nd 66 - - - - -
1950/51 Royaux de Montréal LHSQ 57 12 30th 42 69 7th 3 2 5 14th
1950/51 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 3 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1951/52 Royaux de Montréal LHSQ 27 10 16 26th 22nd - - - - -
1951/52 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 40 3 10 13 30th 9 0 3 3 6th
1952/53 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 54 2 6th 8th 34 12 0 3 3 4th
1953/54 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 53 3 12 15th 43 10 1 2 3 8th
1954/55 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 58 3 14th 17th 24 12 0 5 5 12
1955/56 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 46 4th 9 13 58 4th 0 0 0 2
1956/57 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 64 1 11 12 49 7th 0 1 1 13
1957/58 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 3 20th 23 68 5 0 0 0 10
1958/59 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 70 4th 8th 12 28 6th 0 1 1 2
1959/60 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 68 4th 13 17th 60 4th 0 1 1 0
1960/61 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 67 2 17th 19th 58 11 1 2 3 12
1961/62 Chicago Black Hawks NHL 64 0 13 13 44 12 0 4th 4th 18th
1962/63 As de Québec AHL 54 3 14th 17th 34 - - - - -
LHJQ total 57 18th 37 55 89 4th 0 4th 4th 8th
LHSQ total 129 29 61 90 157 7th 3 2 5 14th
NHL overall 652 29 133 162 496 92 2 22nd 24 87

( 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

Commons : Dollard St. Laurent  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dollard St. Laurent. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed January 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME St. Laurent, Dollard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Laurent, Joseph Dollard Hervé (full name); St-Laurent, Dollard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Verdun , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 2015
Place of death Belœil , Quebec