JC Tremblay

JC Tremblay
Date of birth	January 22, 1939
place of birth	Bagotville , Quebec , Canada
date of death	7th December 1994
Place of death	Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	77 kg
position	defender
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1956-1957	Port Alfred National
1957-1960	Hull-Ottawa Canadiens
1960-1972	Montréal Canadiens
1972-1979	Québec Nordiques
1980-1981	HC Servette Genève

Jean-Claude "JC" Tremblay (born January 22, 1939 in Bagotville , Québec ; † December 7, 1994 ) was a Canadian ice hockey player (defender) who worked for the Montréal Canadiens in the National Hockey League and the Québec Nordiques from 1960 to 1979 played in the World Hockey Association .

Career

As a teenager he played as a left winger, but when he came to the Hull-Ottawa Canadiens on the Montreal Canadiens farm team and there were no defenders, he switched to playing on the blue line. With this team he also won the Memorial Cup in 1958 .

In the 1959/60 season he played his first eleven games for the Canadiens in the NHL. Also in the coming season he commuted between the NHL and the farm team, but then finally made the breakthrough in the 1961/62 season . He won his first Stanley Cup in the 1964/65 season . He himself contributed nine templates in the playoffs and was the best template provider in the playoffs. He contributed eleven points to defending his title the next season and was only barely defeated by Detroit goalkeeper Roger Crozier in the selection for the Conn Smythe Trophy . The 1967/68 season ended similarly for him . He won the third Stanley Cup with the Canadiens and had to admit defeat in the award of the trophies this time Bobby Orr in the fight for the James Norris Memorial Trophy as the best defender of the NHL. The fourth cup win followed in 1969.

In the early 1970s, a rejuvenation of the team was planned in Montreal and Tremblay was also critically questioned. He deposited his wish to stay with the Canadiens on the ice with 63 points in the regular season and 17 points in 20 playoff games, which brought him his fifth Stanley Cup in 1971. He was first elected to the NHL First All-Star Team . At that time he was also the representative of the Canadiens at the NHLPA players' union .

At the end of the 1971/72 season he negotiated with the Canadiens to extend his contract when he got such a good offer from the Québec Nordiques , who were to play in the newly founded World Hockey Association , that he could not refuse. He stayed with the Nordiques for the seven years the WHA was to last and was the dominant defender in the history of that league. In the first year he prepared 77 goals and was together with top scorer André Lacroix the best assists in the league. He played at the Summit Series in 1974 for Canada after he had been removed from the squad before the Summit Series in 1972 due to his move to the WHA, and won the Avco World Trophy with Quebéc in the 1976/77 season .

When the WHA was dissolved in 1979, he ended his career. His number 3 jersey was protected by the Québec Nordiques and has not been awarded since then. Alongside John McKenzie of the Hartford Whalers and Frank Finnigan of the Ottawa Senators , he is the third player whose number has been banned from an NHL team, even though he never played for that team in the NHL.

In 1979 he donated a kidney to his daughter. His remaining kidney was attacked by cancer, from which he died on December 7, 1994.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	13	794	57	306	363	204
NHL playoffs	11	108	14th	51	65	58
WHA regular season	7th	454	66	358	424	126
WHA playoffs	4th	34	2	23	25th	4th

Sporting successes

• Memorial Cup : 1958
• Stanley Cup : 1965 , 1966 , 1968 , 1969 and 1971
• Avco World Trophy : 1977

Personal awards

• NHL First All-Star Team : 1971
• NHL Second All-Star Team : 1968
• WHA First All-Star Team : 1973, 1975 and 1976
• WHA Second All-Star Team : 1974
• Dennis A. Murphy Trophy : 1973 and 1975
• NHL All-Star Game : 1959, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971 and 1972
• WHA All-Star Game : 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977 and 1978

Records

• 424 points as a defender in the WHA
• 358 assists as a defender in the WHA
• 77 assists in one season in the WHA ( WHA 1975/76 )

Web links

• JC Tremblay at hockeydb.com (English)
• JC Tremblay at legendsofhockey.net (English)