Marc St. Jean

Marc St. Jean
Date of birth	May 27, 1978
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	193 cm
Weight	98 kg
position	defender
number	# 24
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
1996-1997	Olympiques de Hull
2000-2003	Wayne State University
2003	Elmira Jackals
2003-2004	Charlotte Checkers
2004	Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies
2004-2005	Heilbronn falcon
2005-2007	EV Landsberg
2007-2009	EC Bad Toelz
2009-2010	Heilbronn falcon
2010	SERC Wild Wings
2010–2012	Dresden Ice Lions

Marc St. Jean (born May 27, 1978 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a former German - Canadian ice hockey player and current coach. In his active career he mainly played for clubs in the 2nd Bundesliga ice hockey . Most recently he was head coach and sporting director of SC Bietigheim-Bissingen from the DEL2 .

Player career

The 1.93 m tall defender completed a game for the Olympiques de Hull from the Canadian junior league QMJHL in the 1996/97 season . St. Jean spent his student days at Wayne State University , for whose ice hockey team he played in the game operations of the college sports organization NCAA . In the play-offs of the 2002/03 season, the right-handed shooter finally made his first professional appearances for the Elmira Jackals from the United Hockey League .

After he went on the ice in the following season for the ECHL teams Charlotte Checkers and Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies , the Canadian moved to the Heilbronner Falken in the German league in summer 2004 . After one season, St. Jean signed a contract with league competitor EV Landsberg , with whom he was promoted to the 2nd Bundesliga in the first year . In 2007 the defender was signed by EV Ravensburg , who mainly used him in the major league with cooperation partner EC Bad Tölz . After the lions themselves were promoted to the second division, St. Jean was part of the regular team in Bad Tölz, but returned to the Heilbronner Falken after the club's bankruptcy. In January 2010 he was signed up by the SERC Wild Wings after he had recently received German citizenship and thus no longer fell under the quota of foreigners.

In September 2010 the Dresdner Eislöwen signed St. Jean after Nico Pyka's premature retirement . After the 2011/12 season, St. Jean ended his career due to a traumatic brain injury that caused him to miss most of the 2011/12 season.

Coaching career

From September 2013 St. Jean was assistant coach at SC Bietigheim-Bissingen . In May 2017 he also took over the position of sporting director at the Steelers. Along with the Steelers, he reached the DEL2 playoff finals five times and two DEL2 championships - 2015 and 2018 .

In November 2019, St. Jean took over the position of head coach at the Steelers after Hugo Boisvert had been fired. With the Steelers he finished eighth in the table at the end of the main round of the 2019/20 season. He then received no new contract with the club.

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	Olympiques de Hull	QMJHL		1	0	0	0	5		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Wayne State University	NCAA		26th	4th	5	9	61
2001/02	Wayne State University	NCAA		31	3	9	12	87
2002/03	Wayne State University	NCAA		36	8th	16	24	68
2002/03	Elmira Jackals	UHL		-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	0
2003/04	Charlotte Checkers	ECHL		57	6th	16	22nd	83		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies	ECHL		12	0	4th	4th	16		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Heilbronn falcon	OIL		48	15th	19th	34	154		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	EV Landsberg	OIL		47	18th	25th	43	155		8th	2	3	5	18th
2006/07	EV Landsberg	2nd BL		49	15th	24	39	126		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	EV Ravensburg	2nd BL		23	2	10	12	48		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	EC Bad Toelz	OIL		26th	12	19th	31	44		8th	3	7th	10	18th
2008/09	EC Bad Toelz	2nd BL		32	9	23	32	127		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Heilbronn falcon	2nd BL		24	6th	6th	12	40		-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	SERC Wild Wings	2nd BL		14th	4th	6th	10	20th		13	1	4th	5	24
2010/11	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		42	5	22nd	27	97		9	1	3	4th	49
2011/12	Dresden Ice Lions	2nd BL		19th	4th	14th	18th	45		-	-	-	-	-
NCAA overall				93	15th	30th	45	216
ECHL total				69	6th	20th	26th	99		0	0	0	0	0
Oberliga overall				121	45	63	108	353		16	5	10	15th	36
2. Bundesliga overall				203	45	105	150	523		22nd	2	7th	9	73

( 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 St. Jean at hockeydb.com (English)
• Marc St. Jean at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ hockeyweb.de, Wild Wings strengthen defensive
2. ↑ steelers.de: "Marc St. Jean new co-trainer of the Steelers" ( Memento of the original from February 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (September 18, 2013, accessed December 5, 2014) 
3. ↑ SC Bietigheim Steelers: Marc St. Jean is the sporting director in Bietigheim - assistant coach takes on other tasks. In: eishockey.info. May 17, 2017, accessed April 16, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Andreas Eberle: Long-time assistant trainer, sporting director and coach has to go: Steelers part with Marc St. Jean. In: habenigheimerzeitung.de . March 31, 2020, accessed April 16, 2020 .