Gilles Tremblay (ice hockey player)

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Gilles Tremblay (ice hockey player)
Date of birth December 17, 1938
place of birth Montmorency , Quebec , Canada
date of death November 26, 2014
Place of death Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 77 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1956-1959 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens
1959-1960 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens
1960-1969 Canadiens de Montréal

Joseph Jean Gilles Tremblay (born December 17, 1938 in Montmorency , Québec ; † November 26, 2014 in Montreal , Québec) was a Canadian ice hockey player and sports commentator who, during his active career between 1956 and 1969, among other things 557 games for the Canadiens de Montréal has played in the National Hockey League on the position of left winger . During his nine seasons in the NHL Tremplay won the Stanley Cup four times with the Canadiens de Montréal between 1965 and 1969 .

Career

Tremblay spent his junior years in the Canadian capital Ottawa , where he played between 1956 and 1959 for the Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens , with whom he took part in the Memorial Cup three times in a row between 1957 and 1959 and won it in 1958 . During his time with the Junior Canadiens, the striker made his professional debut in the 1958/59 season when he played in three games for the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League . Due to the success of the junior franchise in Ottawa, with the establishment of the Eastern Professional Hockey League in the summer of 1959, a professional team named Hull-Ottawa Canadiens was installed in the league, for which Tremblay went on the hunt for goals at the beginning of his professional career in his first year. At the end of the league's premier season , in which he posted 83 scorer points , the attacker was appointed to the Second All-Star Team before he was obliged by the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League after the start of the 1960/61 season .

The French-Canadian immediately received a regular place at Canadiens, for which he collected 54 scorer points in his first full season in 1961/62 . Among them were 32 goals. In the following game years, the two-way forward was always responsible for 20 goals this season - except for the season 1964-65 in which he completed only 26 games due to a leg injury, but at the end of the season but his first Stanley Cup -Triumph with the Habs celebrated . In 1966 , 1968 and 1969 Tremblay had three more victories with the Canadiens de Montréal. In addition, he took in the years 1965 and 1967 at the NHL All-Star Game in part.

Due to severe asthma , Tremblay ended his active career early in the summer of 1969 at the age of 31. After his resignation, he joined the Canadiens radio team, making him one of the first ex-players to take this path after retiring. In 2002 he was honored with the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award from the Hockey Hall of Fame for his contribution to hockey broadcasting on the radio. Tremblay died in November 2014 a few weeks before his 76th birthday of complications from heart failure .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1956/57 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens OHA 18th 3 4th 7th 2 - - - - -
1956/57 Ottawa-Hull Canadiens EOHL 8th 0 2 2 2 - - - - -
1956/57 Ottawa-Hull Canadiens LHSQ 14th 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1957 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens Memorial Cup 15th 5 4th 9 4th
1957/58 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens OHA 27 15th 12 27 6th - - - - -
1957/58 Ottawa-Hull Canadiens EOHL 36 13 19th 32 10 - - - - -
1958 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens Memorial Cup 13 6th 11 17th 6th
1958/59 Ottawa-Hull Canadiens EOHL 3 1 0 1 4th - - - - -
1958/59 Rochester Americans AHL 3 1 1 2 2 - - - - -
1959 Ottawa-Hull Junior Canadiens Memorial Cup 9 3 5 8th 6th
1959/60 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens EPHL 67 32 51 83 45 7th 4th 3 7th 8th
1960/61 Hull-Ottawa Canadiens EPHL 14th 9 11 20th 12 - - - - -
1960/61 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 45 7th 11 18th 4th 6th 1 3 4th 0
1961/62 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 32 22nd 54 28 6th 1 0 1 2
1962/63 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 25th 24 49 42 5 2 0 2 0
1963/64 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 61 22nd 15th 37 21st 2 0 0 0 0
1964/65 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 26th 9 7th 16 16 - - - - -
1965/66 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 70 27 21st 48 24 10 4th 5 9 0
1966/67 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 62 13 19th 32 16 10 0 1 1 0
1967/68 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 23 28 51 8th 9 1 5 6th 2
1968/69 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 44 10 15th 25th 2 - - - - -
OHA total 45 18th 16 34 8th - - - - -
EOHL / EPHL total 128 55 83 138 73 10 5 3 8th 8th
NHL overall 509 168 162 330 161 48 9 14th 23 4th

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Gilles Tremblay. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Tremblay, Gilles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tremblay, Joseph Jean Gilles (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and sports commentator
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Montmorency , Quebec
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2014
Place of death Montreal , Quebec