Joé Juneau

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Joé Juneau
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

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
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
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 )

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personal data
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