Jean Ratelle

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CanadaCanada  Jean Ratelle Ice hockey player
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1985
Jean Ratelle
Date of birth October 3, 1940
place of birth Lac Saint-Jean , Quebec , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 79 kg
position center
number # 19
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1958-1960 Guelph Biltmores
1960-1961 Guelph Royals
1961-1975 New York Rangers
1975-1981 Boston Bruins

Joseph Gilbert Yvon "Jean" Ratelle (born October 3, 1940 in Lac Saint-Jean , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played for the New York Rangers and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League between 1958 and 1981 played. In a total of over 1400 games, the center scored over 1300 points and was awarded the Lester B. Pearson Award , the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy and the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy , among others . In 1985, Ratelle in which was the Hockey Hall of Fame added before the New York Rangers 19's shirt number in February 2018 detained .

Career

Ratelle played with the Guelph Biltmores in the Ontario Hockey Association during his junior years . After a brief but successful assignment with the Trois-Rivières Lions in the Eastern Professional Hockey League (EPHL), he went back to Guelph, where the team had now been renamed Royals. Here he was the OHA's best assists with 61 assists. In this 1960/61 season he was also allowed to hunt for points three times for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League and was able to achieve two goals.

The 1961/62 season he played half with the Rangers without standing out there and the rest of the season in the EPHL with the Kitchener-Waterloo Beavers . A back injury threw him back and so he was alternating between the Rangers and the Baltimore Clippers in the American Hockey League for the next three years . It was only during the 1964/65 season that he made his final breakthrough in the NHL. In the 1967/68 season he managed for the first time to achieve over 30 goals in one season. He played together with Rod Gilbert and Vic Hadfield in the GAG (Goal-A-Game) line . He played his most successful season in 1971/72 . With 109 points, he set a best performance for the Rangers which Jaromír Jágr could only surpass 34 years later in the 2005/06 season . The three players from the GAG ​​Line occupied places 3 to 5 in the scorer list this season. However, a broken ankle in March prevented him from becoming the top scorer. Even in the playoffs he was not free from injuries and so the Rangers failed in the finals of the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins around Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito .

His performance with the Canadian team at the 1972 Summit Series was also very strong . After some good seasons with the Rangers, it became one of the biggest swap deals of the time. Together with Brad Park he moved to the Boston Bruins, in return Phil Esposito and Carol Vadnais came to New York.

In Boston, too, where he often played in a storm series with Rick Middleton , he was always able to score over 70 points in his first five years. In the seasons 1976/77 and 1977/78 he reached the final games of the Stanley Cup twice with the Bruins, but both times they failed to the Canadiens de Montréal and so it was denied him to win this trophy. As the twelfth player in NHL history, he reached the 1,000 point mark on April 3, 1977 . After the 1980/81 season he ended his career.

From 1982 he was under Gerry Cheevers for three years assistant coach with the Bruins.

In 1985 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame . In February 2018 him the New York Rangers honored by his jersey number 19 detained .

Achievements and Awards

Team records

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1958/59 Guelph Biltmores OHA Jr. 54 20th 31 51 11 10 5 4th 9 2
1959/60 Guelph Biltmores OHA Jr. 48 39 47 86 15th 5 3 5 8th 4th
1959/60 Lions de Trois-Rivières EPHL 3 3 5 8th 0 4th 0 3 3 0
1960/61 Guelph Royals OHA Jr. 47 40 61 101 10 14th 6th 11 17th 6th
1960/61 New York Rangers NHL 3 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1961/62 New York Rangers NHL 31 4th 8th 12 4th - - - - -
1961/62 Kitchener-Waverloo Beavers EPHL 32 10 29 39 8th 7th 2 6th 8th 2
1962/63 New York Rangers NHL 48 11 9 20th 8th - - - - -
1962/63 Baltimore Clippers AHL 20th 11 8th 19th 0 3 0 0 0 0
1963/64 New York Rangers NHL 15th 0 7th 7th 6th - - - - -
1963/64 Baltimore Clippers AHL 57 20th 26th 46 2 - - - - -
1964/65 New York Rangers NHL 54 14th 21st 35 14th - - - - -
1964/65 Baltimore Clippers AHL 8th 9 4th 13 6th - - - - -
1965/66 New York Rangers NHL 67 21st 30th 51 10 - - - - -
1966/67 New York Rangers NHL 41 6th 5 11 4th 4th 0 0 0 2
1967/68 New York Rangers NHL 74 32 46 78 18th 6th 0 4th 4th 2
1968/69 New York Rangers NHL 75 32 46 78 26th 4th 1 0 1 0
1969/70 New York Rangers NHL 75 32 42 74 28 6th 1 3 4th 0
1970/71 New York Rangers NHL 78 26th 46 72 14th 13 2 9 11 8th
1971/72 New York Rangers NHL 63 46 63 109 4th 6th 0 1 1 0
1972/73 New York Rangers NHL 78 41 53 94 12 10 2 7th 9 0
1973/74 New York Rangers NHL 68 28 39 67 16 13 2 4th 6th 0
1974/75 New York Rangers NHL 79 36 55 91 26th 3 1 5 6th 2
1975/76 New York Rangers NHL 13 5 10 15th 2 - - - - -
1975/76 Boston Bruins NHL 67 31 59 90 16 12 8th 8th 16 4th
1976/77 Boston Bruins NHL 78 33 61 94 22nd 14th 5 12 17th 4th
1977/78 Boston Bruins NHL 80 25th 59 84 10 15th 3 7th 10 0
1978/79 Boston Bruins NHL 80 27 45 72 12 11 7th 6th 13 2
1979/80 Boston Bruins NHL 67 28 45 73 8th 3 0 0 0 0
1980/81 Boston Bruins NHL 47 11 26th 37 16 3 0 0 0 0
OHA Jr. total 149 99 139 238 36 29 14th 20th 34 12
NHL overall 1281 491 776 1267 276 123 32 66 98 24

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 6th 1 3 4th 0
Men overall 6th 1 3 4th 0

( 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 Ratelle, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ratelle, Joseph Gilbert Yvon (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Lac Saint-Jean , Quebec