Jocelyn Thibault

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Jocelyn Thibault
Date of birth January 12, 1975
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 180 cm
Weight 77 kg
position goalkeeper
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1993 , 1st lap, 10th position
Québec Nordiques
Career stations
1991-1992 Trois-Rivières Draveurs
1992-1993 Sherbrooke Faucons
1993-1995 Québec Nordiques
1995 Colorado Avalanche
1995-1998 Montréal Canadiens
1998-2005 Chicago Blackhawks
2005-2007 Pittsburgh Penguins
2007-2008 Buffalo Sabers

Jocelyn Thibault (born January 12, 1975 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who worked as a goalkeeper coach for the Colorado Avalanche from 2009 to 2011 .

Career

Jocelyn Thibault was selected in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft by the Québec Nordiques in the first round in tenth place. He had drawn attention to himself through outstanding performance in the Canadian junior league QMJHL . In 1993 he got the awards for the most valuable player and for the lowest goal average. He was also named Best Goalkeeper of the Year by the Canadian Hockey League. Thibault moved to Quebec before the 1993/94 season and completed the NHL season as a back-up goalie behind Stéphane Fiset and was used 29 times. Also in his second season he was number 2 behind Fiset. In the summer of 1995, the Québec Nordiques moved to Denver and were now called the Colorado Avalanche . Thibault played ten times in the 1995/96 season for the Avalanches and was then transferred to the Montréal Canadiens in a transfer deal together with Andrei Kowalenko and Martin Ručínský . In addition to Mike Keane , start goalkeeper Patrick Roy came from Montreal , who he replaced there as regular goalkeeper. However, he could not celebrate any particular sporting success.

In November 1998 he was transferred to the Chicago Blackhawks and here he was number 1. But even here he could not achieve any success. In his first three years in Chicago he always missed the play-offs , it wasn't until 2002 that he made it to the first round of the play-offs with the Blackhawks, but it was the only time. In 2003, Thibault was on the roster of the NHL All Star Game for the first time . He missed the following 2003/04 season almost completely due to a serious hip injury.

After the lockout and the resulting failure of the 2004/05 NHL season , Thibault moved to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the summer of 2005 , but was only the third goalkeeper behind Marc-André Fleury and Sébastien Caron .

In the 2006/07 season , Thibault was Marc-André Fleury's back-up team and made 22 appearances.

In the summer of 2007 he signed as a free agent with the Buffalo Sabers , but after a season his contract was not renewed. Thereupon, and due to persistent hip problems, Thibault ended his playing career.

After the career

After his active career, Thibault worked as a goalkeeping coach for the Colorado Avalanche from 2009 to 2011. In 2011 he also worked as a goalkeeping coach for the Québec team at the Canada Games . In the same year he became a co-founder of Sherbrooke Phoenix from the QMJHL , at the same time also a shareholder, Vice President Hockey Operations and goalkeeping coach.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Yahoo.com, news item on the establishment of Sherbrooke Phoenix (English)
  2. ↑ Shareholder Sherbrooke Phoenix (French)
  3. ↑ Jocelyn Thibault at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Thibault, Jocelyn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec, Canada