Marcel Bonin (ice hockey player)

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Marcel Bonin (ice hockey player)
Date of birth September 17, 1931
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
Nickname L'ours de Joliette
size 175 cm
Weight 79 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1950-1951 Cyclones de Joliette
1950-1951 Flambeaux de Trois-Rivières
1951-1952 As de Québec
1952-1953 Detroit Red Wings
St. Louis Flyers
1953-1954 Sherbrooke Saints
Edmonton Flyers
1954-1955 Detroit Red Wings
1955-1956 Boston Bruins
1956-1957 As de Québec
1957-1962 Canadiens de Montréal

Joseph Jacques Marcel Bonin (born September 17, 1931 in Montreal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 504 games for the Detroit Red Wings , Boston Bruins and Canadiens de Montréal in the National between 1950 and 1962 Hockey League on the position of the left winger . During his eight seasons in the NHL, Bonin won the Stanley Cup four times  - once in 1955 with the Detroit Red Wings and three more times between 1958 and 1960 with the Canadiens de Montréal. He also took part in the NHL All-Star Game six times .

Career

Bonin spent his junior years with the Cyclones de Joliette and Flambeaux de Trois-Rivières in the Ligue de hockey junior du Québec until 1951 , before moving to the professional field in 1951 after being elected to the Second All-Star Team. The small but strong striker was initially active in the Ligue de hockey senior du Québec . After two games for the Shawinigan Falls Cataracts , he was in the As de Québec squad at the beginning of the 1951/52 season .

After Bonin had known how to convince there in his rookie season with 51 points scorer in 60 games, he was bought the ace shortly after the start of the following game year by the Detroit Red Wings from the National Hockey League . During the season, the French-Canadian came to both the St. Louis Flyers in the American Hockey League and Detroit in the NHL. Still, he did not manage to establish himself in the NHL. The season 1953/54 the winger spent with the Sherbrooke Saints from the Ligue de hockey senior du Québec and the Edmonton Flyers from the Western Hockey League , while he only played one game for the Red Wings and was not part of the squad on Won the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1954, the trophy of the same name . It was not until the 1954/55 season that Bonin made his breakthrough in the NHL and he spent the entire season there, with which he was able to celebrate his first Stanley Cup triumph with the Detroit Red Wings at the end of the season.

In June 1955, Bonin was part of one of the biggest transfers of the decade when he was one of nine players involved in the Detroit Red Wings- Boston Bruins deal that saw Terry Sawchuk move from Detroit to Boston. In addition to Sawchuk and Bonin, Vic Stasiuk and Lorne Davis moved to "Beantown" , while Ed Sandford , Réal Chevrefils , Norm Corcoran , Gilles Boisvert and Warren Godfrey took the opposite route to Detroit. At the Boston Bruins Bonin saw himself initially in the NHL squad, but he was loaned to the As de Québec for the 1956/57 season, for which he had last accrued four years earlier. With the As he secured the LHSQ championship as one of the pillars of the team at the end of the season.

The attacker's career took a new turn in June 1957 when he was selected in the Inter-League Draft by the Canadiens de Montréal and thus returned to both his hometown and the NHL. At the side of Jean Béliveau and Bernie Geoffrion , Bonin, known for his aggressive style of play, provided the necessary element of success for the storm series. As a result, he won the Stanley Cup three times in a row with the team in 1958 , 1959 and 1960 . In particular, to win the Cup in 1959, Bonin made a significant contribution when he replaced the injured striker Maurice Richard and Bernie Geoffrion in the playoffs and was the top scorer of the entire playoffs with ten goals. After the three Stanley Cup successes, the striker spent another year and a half playing with the Habs before he had to end his career abruptly in February 1962. Due to a back injury sustained in a game against his ex-Detroit team after a collision with Pete Goegan , he retired from active professional sport at the age of 30.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1950/51 Flambeaux de Trois-Rivières LHJQ 44 30th 43 73 73 8th 1 6th 7th 7th
1950/51 Shawinigan Falls Cataracts LHSQ 2 0 1 1 0 - - - - -
1951/52 As de Québec LHSQ 60 15th 36 51 131 15th 4th 9 13 32
1952/53 As de Québec LHSQ 4th 0 2 2 9 - - - - -
1952/53 St. Louis Flyers AHL 24 7th 23 30th 21st - - - - -
1952/53 Detroit Red Wings NHL 37 4th 9 13 14th 5 0 1 1 0
1953/54 Sherbrooke Saints LHSQ 17th 10 11 21st 38 - - - - -
1953/54 Edmonton Flyers WHL 43 16 33 49 53 13 5 6th 11 30th
1953/54 Detroit Red Wings NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1954/55 Detroit Red Wings NHL 69 16 20th 36 53 11 0 2 2 4th
1955/56 Boston Bruins NHL 67 9 9 18th 49 - - - - -
1956/57 As de Québec LHSQ 68 20th 60 80 88 10 5 9 14th 14th
1957/58 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 66 15th 24 39 37 9 0 1 1 12
1958/59 Rochester Americans AHL 7th 3 5 8th 4th - - - - -
1958/59 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 57 13 30th 43 38 11 10 5 15th 4th
1959/60 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 59 17th 34 51 59 8th 1 4th 5 12
1960/61 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 16 35 51 45 6th 0 1 1 29
1961/62 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 33 7th 14th 21st 41 - - - - -
LHSQ total 151 45 110 155 266 25th 9 18th 27 46
AHL total 31 10 28 38 25th - - - - -
NHL overall 454 97 175 272 336 50 11 14th 25th 51

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Bonin. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed December 23, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bonin, Marcel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bonin, Joseph Jacques Marcel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH September 17, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec