Guy Charron

Guy Charron
Date of birth	January 24, 1949
place of birth	Verdun , Quebec , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1966-1968	Verdun Maple Leafs
1968-1969	Montréal Junior Canadiens
1969-1971	Montréal Canadiens
1971-1974	Detroit Red Wings
1974-1976	Kansas City Scouts
1976-1981	Washington Capitals
1981-1983	EHC Arosa
1983	New Haven Nighthawks

Guy Joseph Jean Charron (* 24. January 1949 in Verdun , Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and - coaches , who from 1969 to 1981 for the Montreal Canadiens , Detroit Red Wings , Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League played . He later took over as a coach, among other things, the NHL team Mighty Ducks of Anaheim .

Career

Charron played for the Montréal Junior Canadiens in the Ontario Hockey League during his junior years . He was never drafted and gained his first experience in the National Hockey League in the 1969/70 season , when he was used in five games for the Montréal Canadiens . However, he was never able to assert himself with the Canadiens' NHL team and spent the following two years mostly with their farm team at the time , the Montréal Voyageurs , in the American Hockey League . After he was used in only 20 NHL games for the Canadiens, they gave him to the Detroit Red Wings along with Mickey Redmond and Bill Collins . As compensation, the Canadiens received winger Frank Mahovlich . At the Red Wings, Charron was able to improve after a weak start in the first two years with only 37 points in 88 games and developed into an important player on the team.

In the 1973/74 season he reached his best rate in Detroit with 55 points. After he got off to a disappointing start in the following season and his points did not meet the demands of the Red Wings, those responsible handed him over to the Kansas City Scouts . His teammate Claude Houde also moved to Kansas City. The Red Wings were compensated accordingly with the three newcomers Bart Crashley , Ted Snell and Larry Giroux . The attacker immediately won a regular place with the Scouts and held it in the following two seasons. Although he had scored 113 points scorer in 129 NHL games for Kansas City, this did not extend his expiring contract at the end of the 1975/76 season . He signed on September 1, 1976 as a free agent with the Washington Capitals . The Canadian was able to draw attention to himself with the Capitals immediately with strong performances, he scored a total of 82 points for Washington in the 1976/77 season . Charron also managed to maintain this constant performance in the following two years, when he reached over 70 points each time. He received less match practice from 1979 to 1981 due to his declining performance and left the club in the summer of 1981 after he had only scored 18 points in 47 NHL games in his last season with the Capitals.

However, he was no longer offered a contract with any NHL team and moved to EHC Arosa in Switzerland for two years . In the 1982/83 season he completed 14 games for the New Haven Nighthawks in the American Hockey League. Although he had played in the NHL for a total of twelve years without interruption, he was never able to qualify for the playoffs with an NHL team. In 1983 he ended his active career.

Charron remained without a permanent job for the first few years after his career as an active ice hockey player. After he was able to win the world title as coach of the Canadian junior selection in 1990 , this changed when he was appointed assistant coach of the Calgary Flames in the same year . He kept his post until shortly before the end of the 1991/92 season . After the then head coach of the Flames Doug Risebrough was dismissed, Charron took over the office until the end of the season. The last 16 games of that season resulted in a slightly negative balance of six wins, seven defeats and three draws. Due to the missed qualification for the playoffs, the Canadian was subsequently downgraded to assistant again. The new head coach was his compatriot Dave King . Charron remained active as his assistant to the Flames until 1995 and later moved to the New York Islanders .

After only one year in New York, he took over as coach for the 1997/98 season for the German ice hockey club Landshut Cannibals . After 48 games in the main round, he was able to show a positive record with 25 wins, 17 losses, four draws and two overtime defeats . It made it into the playoffs of the German Ice Hockey League . In the playoffs, the semi-finals were reached, in which the team was defeated by the Eisbären Berlin . Charron then left the club and returned to the United States. He signed a contract with the Grand Rapids Griffins . He took over the International Hockey League team for the next two years and led it into the final games of the playoffs in the 1999/2000 season. The team lost in six games against the Chicago Wolves . Through his success with the Griffins, he aroused the interest of the NHL teams and finally replaced during the 2000/01 season the dismissed Craig Hartsburg with the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim , after he had previously worked as an assistant coach for the Californians for a few months.

He couldn't turn things around and the team fell short of expectations. After 49 games in which Charron had only won 14 wins, he had to leave the Ducks due to the unsuccessful team; the team had clearly missed the playoffs. In the following years, he did not work as a head coach, but instead took on the position of assistant coach at each of his other stations. He then worked for the Hull Olympiques , Montréal Canadiens, San Antonio Rampage and Florida Panthers .

In November 2009, he was named head coach for the Kamloops Blazers .

Achievements and Awards

• 1977 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
• 1978 bronze medal at the world championship
• 2000 Commissioner's Trophy

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1966-67	Verdun Maple Leafs	MMJHL		-	-	-	-	-		-	-	-	-	-
1966-67	Verdun Maple Leafs	Memorial Cup		-	-	-	-	-		4th	0	1	1	4th
1967-68	Verdun Maple Leafs	MMJHL		42	29	36	65	-		-	-	-	-	-
1967-68	Verdun Maple Leafs	Memorial Cup		-	-	-	-	-		21st	14th	9	23	6th
1968-69	Canadien junior de Montréal	OHA Jr.		50	27	27	54	12		14th	11	15th	26th	6th
1968-69	Canadien junior de Montréal	Memorial Cup		-	-	-	-	-		8th	7th	5	12	4th
1969-70	Voyageurs de Montréal	AHL		65	37	45	82	20th		8th	8th	4th	12	2
1969-70	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		5	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1970-71	Voyageurs de Montréal	AHL		23	5	13	18th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1970-71	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		15th	2	2	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
1970-71	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		24	8th	4th	12	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1971-72	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		64	9	16	25th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
1972-73	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		75	18th	18th	36	23		-	-	-	-	-
1973-74	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		76	25th	30th	55	10		-	-	-	-	-
1974-75	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		26th	1	10	11	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1974-75	Kansas City Scouts	NHL		51	13	29	42	21st		-	-	-	-	-
1975-76	Kansas City Scouts	NHL		78	27	44	71	12		-	-	-	-	-
1976-77	Washington Capitals	NHL		80	36	46	82	10		-	-	-	-	-
1977-78	Washington Capitals	NHL		80	38	35	73	12		-	-	-	-	-
1978-79	Washington Capitals	NHL		80	28	42	70	24		-	-	-	-	-
1979-80	Washington Capitals	NHL		33	11	20th	31	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1980-81	Washington Capitals	NHL		47	5	13	18th	2		-	-	-	-	-
1982-83	EHC Arosa	NLA		36	17th	27	44	-		-	-	-	-	-
1982-83	New Haven Nighthawks	AHL		2	1	2	3	14th		12	2	5	7th	4th
NHL overall				734	221	309	530	146		-	-	-	-	-

International

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1977	Canada	WM		1	0	0	0	0
1978	Canada	WM		9	0	1	1	0
1979	Canada	WM		6th	1	3	4th	2
Men overall				16	1	4th	5	2

( 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

• Guy Charron at legendsofhockey.net (English)