Guy Chouinard

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CanadaCanada  Guy Chouinard Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 20, 1956
place of birth Québec City , Québec , Canada
Nickname Gramps
size 180 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 2nd round, 28th position
Atlanta Flames
Career stations
1971-1974 Remparts de Quebec
1974-1975 Omaha Knights
1975-1976 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1976-1980 Atlanta Flames
1980-1983 Calgary Flames
1983-1984 St. Louis Blues
1984-1985 Peoria Rivermen
CanadaCanada  Guy Chouinard
Coaching stations
1986-1987 Chevaliers de Longueuil
1987-1988 Tigres de Victoriaville
1988-1989 Canadien junior de Verdun
1989-1990 Tigres de Victoriaville
1991-1992 Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
1992-1996 Faucons de Sherbrooke
1996-1997 Titan Collège Français de Laval
1997-2002 Remparts de Quebec
2007-2010 PEI Rocket
2014-2018 Collège régional Champlain St. Lawrence

Guy Camil "Gramps" Chouinard (born October 20, 1956 in Québec City , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and official who played 624 games for the Atlanta Flames , Calgary , in the course of his active career between 1971 and 1985 Flames and St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center . His greatest career success celebrated Chouinard - in addition to numerous successes in the junior sector - but in the jersey of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the American Hockey League (AHL) by winning the Calder Cup in 1976. Following his career as an active, he was more than with interruptions 30 years as a coach - mainly in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ).

Career

Chouinard spent a very successful junior period between 1971 and 1974 with the Remparts de Québec in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ). During this time, the attacker won the Coupe du Président , the championship trophy of the LHJMQ, with the Remparts in 1973 and 1974 , in which he had a significant share with over 30 scorer points in the playoffs. So he played in both years in the prestigious Memorial Cup , but the team was unable to win. In the 1974 Memorial Cup, however, Chouinard won the George Parsons Trophy for the most athletic player, an individual award. In addition, he showed a steady development over the course of three years and increased his points count in the regular season from initially 70 points in his rookie season to 160 in his third year in the league. Consequently, the only 17-year-old in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft was selected in the second round in 26th position by the Atlanta Flames of the National Hockey League (NHL). At that time he formed a storm line with André Savard and Jacques Richard .

Although the Canadian moved to the professional sector as a result of the draft, it took two years before the Canadian managed to establish himself in the NHL. Chouinard was first used by the Atlanta Flames in their farm team , the Omaha Knights in the Central Hockey League (CHL). There the striker, who was the youngest North American professional ice hockey player at the time, impressed with 68 points in 70 games. He received end of the season the CHL Rookie of the Year Trophy for rookie of the year the CHL. In addition, he came to his first NHL appearances for the Flames in February 1975. In the season 1975/76 Chouinard ran on loan for the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in the American Hockey League (AHL), the cooperation partner of the Canadiens de Montréal . With 80 scorer points in the regular season, making him fourth-best scorer in the league, and 15 more in the playoffs, he led the Voyageurs this season together with Ron Andruff and Pierre Mondou to win the Calder Cup . He was also appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team and was able to add six more NHL appearances to his vita.

With the beginning of the 1976/77 season , Chouinard was finally in the regular squad of the Atlanta Flames. In his first year in the NHL, the 20-year-old scored 50 points. In the following two years, he finally increased this value to 107 points, making him the sixth-best scorer in the league in the 1978/79 season . This season he formed an outstandingly harmonizing duo with Bob MacMillan , who scored 108 points. Chouinard himself also managed to score 50 goals, making him the first player in Atlanta's history and the 21st player ever to do so. After another year with the Atlanta Flames, Chouinard moved the franchise to Calgary , Canada , where it continued to operate as the Calgary Flames after relocating . Ultimately, the center, which was able to score more than 30 goals twice in one game year, ran up for the team until the end of the 1982/83 season . In September 1983 he was finally transferred to the St. Louis Blues , as he never regained his former form after a serious shoulder injury from the 1980/81 season . At the time of the transfer, he was the Atlanta / Calgary franchise record holder in the points and assists categories . For the St. Louis Blues, Chouinard only played one season after the move. When the Blues decided not to take him to training camp before the 1984/85 season, he had his last year of contract paid out and resigned. In the course of the season, however, he returned again for three weeks to St. Louis' farm team Peoria Rivermen in the International Hockey League (IHL). After nine games he finally ended his active career at the age of 28.

After his early retirement, Chouinard returned to his home province of Québec , where he began to work as a coach . In January 1986 he was appointed head coach of the Chevaliers de Longueuil from the LHJMQ, which he led a year and a half later - at the end of his first full season as a coach - to win the Coupe du Président. In the summer of 1987, he moved the franchise to Victoriaville and stayed there for another year. After a brief engagement with league rivals Canadien junior de Verdun in the 1988/89 season , he returned to the Tigres de Victoriaville for the following game year . There he remained in office until May 1990, when he was unemployed for about a year and a half.

In December 1991, Chouinard returned to the LHJMQ when he took over the post of head coach of the Draveurs de Trois-Rivières . After a season he moved with the team to Sherbrooke , where it subsequently worked as the Faucons de Sherbrooke . The ex-player remained loyal to the Faucons until the summer of 1996 and during this period he received the trophy Ron Lapointe as the best coach in the league, as he had led the team as the best-point team in the league to the playoff final in the 1992/93 season . At times he also acted as general manager . For the 1996/97 season he was in charge of the Titan Collège Français de Laval for a year . Chouinard then returned to his former junior team, the Remparts de Québec, who had been revived with the relocation of the Laval franchise. He worked there for the next five years. During this time, in 1998 and 1999, he won the Ron Lapointe Trophy two more times. In 1999 he also received the Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award from the Canadian Hockey League umbrella organization . In the election, he prevailed against Peter DeBoer and Don Hay , who had received equivalent awards in the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League . At the end of the 2001/02 season , his involvement with the team from his native Quebec City ended . His last coaching position in the LHJMQ was the PEI Rocket between 2007 and 2010 , followed by his last engagement at the Collège régional Champlain St. Lawrence between 2010 and 2014.

Achievements and Awards

As a player

As a trainer

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1971/72 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 58 29 41 70 6th - - - - -
1972/73 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 59 43 86 129 11 15th 14th 18th 32 2
1973 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 3 3 1 4th 0
1973/74 Remparts de Quebec LHJMQ 62 75 85 160 22nd 16 15th 16 31 5
1974 Remparts de Quebec Memorial Cup 4th 2 6th 8th 0
1974/75 Omaha Knights CHL 70 28 40 68 6th 6th 1 6th 7th 0
1974/75 Atlanta Flames NHL 5 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1975/76 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 70 40 40 80 14th 9 6th 9 15th 0
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 4th 0 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 0
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 17th 33 50 8th 3 2 0 2 0
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 73 28 30th 58 8th 2 1 0 1 0
1978/79 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 50 57 107 14th 2 1 2 3 0
1979/80 Atlanta Flames NHL 76 31 46 77 22nd 4th 1 3 4th 4th
1980/81 Calgary Flames NHL 52 31 52 83 24 16 3 14th 17th 4th
1981/82 Calgary Flames NHL 64 23 57 80 12 3 0 1 1 0
1982/83 Calgary Flames NHL 80 13 59 72 18th 9 1 6th 7th 4th
1983/84 St. Louis Blues NHL 64 12 34 46 10 5 0 2 2 0
1984/85 Peoria Rivermen IHL 9 2 5 7th 0 - - - - -
LHJMQ total 179 147 212 359 39 31 33 30th 63 7th
NHL overall 578 205 370 575 120 46 9 28 37 12

( 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 )

family

Chouinard's brother Jean was also a professional ice hockey player, but between 1979 and 1981 did not get beyond appearances in the International Hockey League (IHL). In the second generation, both his son Éric and his nephew Marc , the son of his brother Jean, made the leap into the National Hockey League (NHL). Mainly both spent their careers in the American Hockey League (AHL) or in other European countries.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Joe Pelletier: Greatest Hockey Legends.com: Guy Chouinard. greatesthockeylegends.com, April 2007, accessed April 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Chouinard, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Chouinard, Guy Camil (full name); Gramps (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and official
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Québec City , Québec , Canada