Jean-Guy Gendron

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Jean-Guy Gendron
Date of birth August 30, 1934
place of birth Montréal , Québec , Canada
size 175 cm
Weight 75 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1951-1954 Trois-Rivières Reds
1954-1955 Providence Reds
1955-1958 New York Rangers
1958-1960 Boston Bruins
1960-1961 Canadiens de Montréal
1961–1962 New York Rangers
1962-1964 Boston Bruins
1964-1968 As de Québec
1968-1972 Philadelphia Flyers
1972-1974 Nordiques de Québec

Jean-Guy Gendron (born August 30, 1934 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The left winger played over 900 games for the New York Rangers , Boston Bruins , Canadiens de Montréal and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League between 1955 and 1972 . He let his active career end with the Nordiques de Québec in the World Hockey Association , which he led as captain and a little later as head coach.

Career

Beginnings

Jean-Guy Gendron ran in his youth for the Trois-Rivières Reds in the Québec Junior Hockey League (QJHL). He made his professional debut as part of the playoffs of the Ligue de hockey senior du Québec for the As de Québec , for which he should appear again in the course of his career. For the time being, however, he returned for another year in the junior division before he joined the Providence Reds from the American Hockey League (AHL) for the 1954/55 season. There the winger convinced with 39 scorer points from 47 games, so that he was obliged in May 1955 in exchange for Bill Ezinicki and a financial return from the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL).

New York, Boston, Montréal and Québec

In the highest league in North America, Gendron was initially mainly used as a defensively oriented attacker, so that he barely distinguished himself as a scorer with the Rangers in his first three years. In June 1958 he reached the NHL Intra-League Draft to the Boston Bruins , where he exceeded the mark of 20 goals for the first time in the 1959/60 season. In November 1960, however, the Bruins gave him to the Canadiens de Montréal and received André Pronovost in return . There the Canadian ended the season, but was again committed in the Intra-League Draft by the New York Rangers before returning to the Boston Bruins in the same way in June 1962.

In Boston, his offensive production dropped significantly in the 1963/64 season, so that he was initially sent to the AHL and ran there for four years for the As de Québec. 1967/68 was his most successful year, he scored 87 points in 72 games, placed himself among the best scorers in the league and reached the playoff final for the Calder Cup with the team , in which, however, they were defeated by the Rochester Americans .

Philadelphia and end of career

Gendron's return to the NHL was made possible by the great league expansion of 1967, so the newly formed Philadelphia Flyers bought the As de Québec and integrated them into their organization as a farm team . At the beginning of the 1968/69 season, the attacker was regularly in the Flyers' squad and this year achieved his career best in the NHL with 55 points from 74 games. As a result, he was active for four years in Philadelphia before moving to the newly founded World Hockey Association (WHA) in 1972 for the Nordiques de Québec , where he became the first team captain . After the 1973/74 season, Gendron ended his active career. In total, he had completed 906 games in the NHL and collected 394 points scorer.

At the end of his playing career, Gendron took over the position of head coach at the Nordiques. Already in his first year he led the team to the playoff finals for the Avco World Trophy , but lost to the Houston Eros 4-0. After another season he was replaced by Marc Boileau and subsequently retired from professional ice hockey.

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1951/52 Trois-Rivières Reds QJHL 41 9 28 37 77 5 0 1 1 16
1952/53 Trois-Rivières Reds QJHL 47 19th 10 29 98 6th 2 3 5 12
1952/53 As de Québec LHSQ - - - - - - 3 0 0 0 0
1953/54 Trois-Rivières Reds QJHL 54 42 45 87 179 4th 0 1 1 8th
1954/55 Providence Reds AHL 47 24 15th 39 38 - - - - - -
1955/56 New York Rangers NHL 63 5 7th 12 38 5 2 1 3 2
1956/57 New York Rangers NHL 70 9 6th 15th 38 5 0 1 1 6th
1957/58 New York Rangers NHL 70 10 17th 27 66 6th 1 0 1 11
1958/59 Boston Bruins NHL 60 15th 9 24 57 7th 1 0 1 18th
1959/60 Boston Bruins NHL 67 24 11 35 -3 64 - - - - - -
1960/61 Boston Bruins NHL 23 1 7th 8th -5 24 - - - - - -
1960/61 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 44 9 12 21st +5 51 5 0 0 0 -1 2
1961/62 New York Rangers NHL 69 14th 11 25th -22 71 6th 3 1 4th +1 2
1962/63 Boston Bruins NHL 66 21st 22nd 43 -23 42 - - - - - -
1963/64 Providence Reds AHL 6th 1 1 2 0 - - - - - -
1963/64 Boston Bruins NHL 54 5 13 18th –6 41 - - - - - -
1964/65 As de Québec AHL 53 20th 14th 34 61 5 1 1 2 8th
1965/66 As de Québec AHL 58 26th 35 61 70 6th 1 0 1 6th
1966/67 As de Québec AHL 68 28 45 73 72 5 2 1 3 4th
1967/68 As de Québec AHL 72 29 58 87 72 15th 7th 14th 21st 24
1967/68 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 1 0 1 1 +1 2 - - - - - -
1968/69 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 74 20th 35 55 -10 65 4th 0 0 0 -5 6th
1969/70 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 71 23 21st 44 +4 54 - - - - - -
1970/71 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 76 20th 16 36 -8th 46 4th 0 1 1 -3 0
1971/72 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 56 6th 13 19th -1 36 - - - - - -
1972/73 Nordiques de Québec WHA 63 17th 33 50 113 - - - - - -
1973/74 Nordiques de Québec WHA 64 11 8th 19th 42 - - - - - -
QJHL total 142 70 83 153 354 15th 2 5 7th 36
AHL total 304 128 168 296 313 31 11 16 27 42
WHA total 127 28 41 69 155 - - - - - -
NHL overall 864 182 201 383 695 42 7th 4th 11 47

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Gendron, Jean-Guy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Montréal , Québec , Canada