Joé Juneau
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Date of birth | 5th January 1968 |
place of birth | Pont-Rouge , Quebec , Canada |
size | 183 cm |
Weight | 88 kg |
position | center |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Entry Draft |
1988 , 4th lap, 81st position Boston Bruins |
Career stations | |
1987-1991 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute |
1991-1994 | Boston Bruins |
1994-1999 | Washington Capitals |
1999 | Buffalo Sabers |
1999-2000 | Ottawa Senators |
2000-2001 | Phoenix Coyotes |
2001-2004 | Montréal Canadiens |
Joséph "Joé" Juneau (born January 5, 1968 in Pont-Rouge , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins , Washington Capitals , Buffalo Sabers , Ottawa Senators , Phoenix Coyotes and during his playing career between 1991 and 2004 Montréal Canadiens has played in the National Hockey League on the position of the center .
Career
Joé Juneau began his career in his native Québec in junior leagues before moving to Troy , New York in 1987 to study aerospace engineering at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute . Although he did not speak English when he went to the USA , he was able to graduate with a very good grade after just three years.
While in college he played ice hockey on the college team, where he developed into a top scorer. In 124 games he scored 213 points. Therefore, he was selected in the 1988 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins in the fourth round at position 81. In 1991 he joined the Canadian national team . He had ruled out a contract offer from Boston because the team wouldn't pay him full salary if they sent him to the farm team in a sub-league. During his time at Team Canada he helped win the 1992 Olympic silver medal.
Shortly after the Winter Olympics, he received a contract in Boston that was appropriate for him and immediately proved that he was worth the money. In the remaining 14 games of the season he scored 19 times and also in the play-offs he performed well. The 1992/93 season was his first full season in the National Hockey League and it would be the best of his career. With 102 points he played one of the best rookie seasons in the history of the NHL and set the rookie record for most assists, which until then was held by Peter Šťastný alone . But he was overshadowed that year by the Finn Teemu Selänne , who also played his first year in the NHL and achieved the best result of a rookie with 132 points and Juneau snatched the Calder Memorial Trophy as the best rookie in the NHL.
Also in the 1993/94 season Juneau played strong and scored 72 times in 63 games for Boston, before they him in March 1994 to the Washington Capitals for Al Iafrate , who should play only twelve games for Boston. Juneau could not build on his strong performances of the first two years in the next seasons, which was also due to the fact that he could hardly play through a season because he was injured again and again. Nevertheless, he was an important pillar of the Capitals, performed well and made it with the team in 1998 in the Stanley Cup final , where they were defeated by the Detroit Red Wings .
In March 1999 he was transferred to the Buffalo Sabers . With the Sabers he reached the Stanley Cup final in the same year, but again Juneau's team could not win. Only a few months after the transfer, he signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators , but he stayed here only for a short time, because in the summer of 2000 he was selected by the Minnesota Wild in the NHL Expansion Draft 2000 , which shortly thereafter transferred him to the Phoenix Coyotes . After only one year in Phoenix, he was transferred to the Montréal Canadiens in a transfer business and thus returned to his homeland of Québec.
In Buffalo, Ottawa and Phoenix he was no longer one of the stars and his points were only around 35 points per season. He stayed in Montréal for three years and then ended his career in the summer of 2004.
Juneau is currently a Québec City partner and account manager at Harfan Technologies.
On November 12, 2005, Joé Juneau was accepted as the second member of the Hockey Ring of Honor of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and his college team hung a banner with the number 9 in the ice rink in a ceremony, so that the number in honor of Joé Juneau never again is awarded. The first member of the Hockey Ring of Honor is Adam Oates , who played with Juneau in Boston and Washington.
Achievements and Awards
- 1990 NCAA East First All-American Team
- 1991 NCAA East Second All-American Team
- 1992 NHL Rookie of the Month for November
- 1993 NHL All-Rookie Team
International
- 1992 silver medal at the Olympic Winter Games
- 1992 top scorer at the Olympic Winter Games
Career statistics
Regular season | Play-offs | |||||||||||||
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1987/88 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ECAC | 31 | 16 | 29 | 45 | 18th | |||||||
1988/89 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ECAC | 30th | 12 | 23 | 35 | 40 | |||||||
1989/90 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ECAC | 34 | 18th | 52 | 70 | 31 | |||||||
1989/90 | Hockey Canada | International | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4th | |||||||
1990/91 | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | ECAC | 29 | 23 | 40 | 63 | 68 | |||||||
1990/91 | Hockey Canada | International | 7th | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
1991/92 | Hockey Canada | International | 60 | 20th | 49 | 69 | 35 | |||||||
1991/92 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 14th | 5 | 14th | 19th | 4th | 15th | 4th | 8th | 12 | 21st | ||
1992/93 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 84 | 32 | 70 | 102 | 33 | 4th | 2 | 4th | 6th | 6th | ||
1993/94 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 63 | 14th | 58 | 72 | 35 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1993/94 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 11 | 5 | 8th | 13 | 6th | 11 | 4th | 5 | 9 | 6th | ||
1994/95 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 44 | 5 | 38 | 43 | 8th | 7th | 2 | 6th | 8th | 2 | ||
1995/96 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 80 | 14th | 50 | 64 | 30th | 5 | 0 | 7th | 7th | 6th | ||
1996/97 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 58 | 15th | 27 | 42 | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1997/98 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 56 | 9 | 22nd | 31 | 26th | 21st | 7th | 10 | 17th | 8th | ||
1998/99 | Washington Capitals | NHL | 63 | 14th | 27 | 41 | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1998/99 | Buffalo Sabers | NHL | 9 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 20th | 3 | 8th | 11 | 10 | ||
1999/00 | Ottawa Senators | NHL | 65 | 13 | 24 | 37 | 22nd | 6th | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
2000/01 | Phoenix Coyotes | NHL | 69 | 10 | 23 | 33 | 28 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2001/02 | Montréal Canadiens | NHL | 70 | 8th | 28 | 36 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 4th | 5 | 6th | ||
2002/03 | Montréal Canadiens | NHL | 72 | 6th | 16 | 22nd | 20th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
2003/04 | Montréal Canadiens | NHL | 70 | 5 | 10 | 15th | 20th | 11 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4th | ||
ECAC total | 124 | 69 | 144 | 213 | 157 | |||||||||
International overall | 70 | 22nd | 54 | 76 | 39 | |||||||||
NHL overall | 828 | 156 | 416 | 572 | 272 | 112 | 25th | 54 | 79 | 69 |
International
Represented Canada to:
year | team | event | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | |
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1992 | Canada | Olympia | 8th | 6th | 9 | 15th | 4th | |
Men overall | 8th | 6th | 9 | 15th | 4th |
( 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
- Joé Juneau at legendsofhockey.net (English)
- Joé Juneau at hockeydb.com (English)
- Joé Juneau in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Juneau, Joé |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Juneau, Joe; Juneau, Joseph; Juneau, Joséph |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th January 1968 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pont-Rouge , Quebec |