Marc Bergevin

Marc Bergevin
Date of birth	August 11, 1965
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
size	185 cm
position	defender
number	# 23
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1983 , 3rd round, 59th position Chicago Black Hawks
Career stations
1982-1984	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
1984-1988	Chicago Blackhawks
1988-1990	New York Islanders
1990-1992	Hartford Whalers
1992-1995	Tampa Bay Lightning
1995-1996	Detroit Red Wings
1996-2000	St. Louis Blues
2000-2001	Pittsburgh Penguins
2001-2002	St. Louis Blues
2002-2003	Pittsburgh Penguins
2003	Tampa Bay Lightning
2003-2004	Pittsburgh Penguins
2004	Vancouver Canucks

Marc Bergevin (born August 11, 1965 in Montréal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current official. In his playing career, he completed almost 1200 games as a defender in the National Hockey League and was on the ice for eight different teams. He is currently the general manager of the Canadiens de Montréal in the NHL.

Career

As a player

Bergevin grew up in the Montréal district of Pointe-Saint-Charles and played for clubs in his hometown during his youth. For the 1982/83 season, the defender moved to the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi in the highest junior league in Québec, the LHJMQ , before he was selected in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft of the National Hockey League in the third round of the Chicago Black Hawks . For this he completed his rookie season in the game year 1984/85 and was on the ice in 60 games.

After five seasons in Chicago, the Blackhawks Bergevin resigned to the New York Islanders , where he showed himself to be a good template provider in his first season with a personal NHL record of 13 assists. In the following season, however, he could not build on these achievements and was given after 18 games to the farm team of the Islanders, the Springfield Indians in the American Hockey League . With these he was able to win the Calder Cup , the title in the AHL, straight away in 1989/90 . In 1990/91 Bergevin then moved to the Hartford Whalers , but was initially unable to assert himself there. Instead, he played again with the Indians, who had also switched to the Whalers as the Islanders' farm team. With the AHL team he won the Calder Cup for the second time, before he was able to establish himself again in the NHL the next season. He scored a total of 24 points in the 1991/92 season, which was the best value in his NHL career so far. Nevertheless, the defender was transferred to the Tampa Bay Lightning in 1992 and used there in almost all games in the following seasons. For the 1994 World Cup , he was appointed as a defender in the squad of the Canadian national team and won the world championship with the team with a 2-1 final victory after a shootout .

In 1995 Bergevin moved to the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference, with whom he was eliminated in the penultimate round after winning the Presidents' Trophy in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup . In the regular season he showed his best ever in the NHL with a plus / minus balance of +7. For the next season, however, Detroit resigned and he moved to the St. Louis Blues . This season he was on the ice at all of his team's games. However, the Blues were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs against the Detroit Red Wings, who were later able to secure the Stanley Cup. The next year his team failed again at the Red Wings, this time in the second round of the playoffs. In the 1999/2000 season he reached the eighth best value in the league with a plus / minus balance of +27 and won his second Presidents' Trophy with the Blues. In the playoffs, however, they were eliminated in the first round.

After four years in St. Louis, the Blues Bergevin transferred to Pittsburgh in 2000, where he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins . After a season in which he completed 36 games, however, he moved back to St. Louis. In the course of the 2001/02 season, however, he was only used in 30 games and finally given to the farm team of the Blues, the Worcester IceCats in the AHL. So in 2002 he moved again to the Penguins, which gave him to the Tampa Bay Lightning that same year. There he only played one game before coming to Pittsburgh for a third time in 2003. After 52 games for the Penguins in the 2003/04 season, he was transferred to the Vancouver Canucks during the season , where he ended his playing career after the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs.

As a functionary

After the lockout in the 2004/05 season and its failure, Marc Bergevin was employed as an official at his former club, Chicago Blackhawks, from the 2005/06 season. There he worked as a talent scout before he acted as assistant coach to Joel Quenneville in the 2008/09 season . From 2009 to 2011 he was employed at the club as HR director and finally moved to the post of assistant general manager at the Blackhawks for the 2011/12 season.

After seven seasons in Chicago, Bergevin was introduced as the new general manager of Canadiens de Montréal on May 2, 2012 , after Pierre Gauthier had been fired from that post during the season .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

• 1990 Calder Cup win with the Springfield Indians
• 1991 Calder Cup win with the Springfield Indians
• 1994 gold medal at the world championship

As a functionary

• 2010 Stanley Cup win with the Chicago Blackhawks

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1982/83	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	LHJMQ		64	3	27	30th	113		5	0	0	0	26th
1983/84	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	LHJMQ		70	10	35	45	125		-	-	-	-	-
1983/84	Springfield Indians	AHL		7th	0	1	1	2		4th	0	0	0	0
1984/85	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	LHJMQ		2	0	1	1	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1984/85	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		60	0	6th	6th	54		6th	0	3	3	2
1985/86	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		71	7th	7th	14th	60		3	0	0	0	0
1986/87	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		66	4th	10	14th	66		3	1	0	1	2
1987/88	Saginaw Hawks	IHL		10	2	7th	9	20th		-	-	-	-	-
1987/88	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		58	1	6th	7th	85		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	Chicago Blackhawks	NHL		11	0	0	0	18th		-	-	-	-	-
1988/89	New York Islanders	NHL		58	2	13	15th	62		-	-	-	-	-
1989/90	Springfield Indians	AHL		47	7th	16	23	66		17th	2	11	13	16
1989/90	New York Islanders	NHL		18th	0	4th	4th	30th		1	0	0	0	2
1990/91	Capital District Islanders	AHL		7th	0	5	5	6th		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Hartford Whalers	NHL		4th	0	0	0	4th		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Springfield Indians	AHL		58	4th	23	27	85		18th	0	7th	7th	26th
1991/92	Hartford Whalers	NHL		75	7th	17th	24	64		5	0	0	0	2
1992/93	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		78	2	12	14th	66		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		83	1	15th	16	87		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		44	2	4th	6th	51		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Detroit Red Wings	NHL		70	1	9	10	33		17th	1	0	1	14th
1996/97	St. Louis Blues	NHL		82	0	4th	4th	53		6th	1	0	1	8th
1997/98	St. Louis Blues	NHL		81	3	7th	10	90		10	0	1	1	8th
1998/99	St. Louis Blues	NHL		52	1	1	2	99		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	St. Louis Blues	NHL		81	1	8th	9	75		7th	0	1	1	6th
2000/01	St. Louis Blues	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		36	1	3	5	26th		12	0	1	1	2
2001/02	Worcester IceCats	AHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	St. Louis Blues	NHL		30th	0	3	3	2		7th	0	0	0	4th
2002/03	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		69	2	5	7th	36		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Pittsburgh Penguins	NHL		52	1	8th	9	27		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Vancouver Canucks	NHL		9	0	2	2	2		3	0	0	0	2
LHJMQ total				136	13	63	76	242		5	0	0	0	26th
AHL total				121	11	45	56	159		39	2	18th	20th	42
NHL overall				1191	36	145	181	1090		80	3	6th	9	52

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 1994

year	team	event		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1994	Canada	WM		8th	0	0	0	2
Men overall				8th	0	0	0	2

( 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

• Marc Bergevin on the National Hockey League website
• Arpon Basu: Bergevin selected as new Montreal GM , NHL.com, May 2, 2012
• Marc Bergevin nommé directeur général , Canadiens de Montréal, May 2, 2012
• Marc Bergevin at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Marc Bergevin at hockeydraftcentral.com
• Marc Bergevin at hockeydb.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Marc Bergevin nommé directeur général , Canadiens de Montréal, May 2, 2012