Mario Tremblay

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CanadaCanada  Mario Tremblay Ice hockey player
Date of birth 2nd September 1956
place of birth Alma , Quebec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 86 kg
position Right wing
number # 14
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1974 , 1st lap, 12th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1972-1973 Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal
1973-1974 Junior de Montréal
1974-1986 Canadiens de Montréal

Mario Tremblay (born September 2, 1956 in Alma , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach . The right winger completed over 900 games for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League between 1974 and 1986 and won five Stanley Cups with the team . Later he was also active for almost two years as head coach for the Canadiens, before he supervised the Minnesota Wild and the New Jersey Devils as an assistant coach.

Career

As a player

Mario Tremblay played in his youth for the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal and the 1973 renamed Junior de Montréal in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , the highest-ranking junior league in his home province of Québec. The right winger scored 100 points in his second year in 46 games , so he was recommended for the National Hockey League (NHL) and was selected in the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft in twelfth position by the Canadiens de Montréal . After a short "warm-up" with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs in the American Hockey League , the farm team of the Canadiens, Tremblay made his debut in November 1974 for Montréal in the NHL.

In the years that followed, the Canadiens became the measure of all things in the league, with the team winning four consecutive Stanley Cups from 1976 to 1979 . Tremblay was used during this time mainly in a row with Doug Risebrough and Yvon Lambert , especially he and Risebrough also took on enforcer tasks and regularly led the team in penalty minutes. Nevertheless, the right winger also appeared as a regular scorer, for example he scored the decisive goal in the last game of the Stanley Cup final in 1978 against the Boston Bruins . He also reached the mark of 30 goals for the first time in the 1978/79 season, with 59 points.

After the era of Montreal came to an end in the early 1980s and a generation change took place in the team, Tremblay was increasingly entrusted with offensive tasks, so that he was 73 in the 1981/82 season - with Réjean Houle and Pierre Mondou at his side Scorer points in 80 games. With the beginning of the 1985/86 season, the attacker also took over the post of assistant captain with the Canadiens, which won another Stanley Cup in the subsequent 1986 playoffs . Tremblay broke his collarbone in March 1986 and did not play a game this post-season ; nevertheless, it was immortalized a fifth time on the trophy. This injury was also one reason why he declared his playing career over in the summer of 1986. In total, he was on the ice in 953 games for the Canadiens, scoring 278 goals and 633 points scorer.

As a trainer

After the end of his active career, Tremblay worked as a commentator on French-language radio and television broadcasts of Canadiens games. In October 1995 he was then introduced as the new head coach of the Montréals, without having previously worked in a comparable position. He succeeded Jacques Demers , who had lost the first four games of the season. As a result, Tremblay trained the team for two seasons, which presented themselves as unspectacular sporting with the respective elimination in the first playoff round. Rather, the Canadian was remembered for his dealings with individual players, especially star goalkeeper Patrick Roy :

In a game against the Detroit Red Wings in December 1995, the Canadiens lost 1:11 in front of their home crowd. Roy started the game in goal Montréals and allowed nine goals with 26 shots until about halfway through the second period, until Tremblay exchanged him for substitute goalkeeper Pat Jablonski . At this point, every parade of Roy was accompanied by scornful applause from the audience. In the light of this humiliation, Roy reached out to the team's president, Ronald Corey , who was sitting behind the bench, while the game was still in progress and informed him that this would be his last game for the Canadiens. Just four days later, the goalkeeper was handed over to the Colorado Avalanche and subsequently won two more Stanley Cups. Apart from this final incident, the conflict between the two had existed for a long time and was expressed, for example, in various disputes during training.

After 159 games with 71 wins, Tremblay was dismissed after the 1996/97 season and replaced by Alain Vigneault . After a hiatus of four years, he became the new assistant coach of the Minnesota Wild for the 2001/02 season , where he worked under Jacques Lemaire , with whom he had already played in Montréal. Together they looked after the team until their release after the 2008/09 season and then worked in the same constellation for the New Jersey Devils in the 2009/10 season . In 2010 Tremblay returned to his role as commentator and TV expert and has been working for RDS ever since .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1979 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1986 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal

Career statistics

Player statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1972/73 Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal LHJMQ 56 43 37 80 155 4th 0 1 1 4th
1973/74 Junior de Montréal LHJMQ 46 49 51 100 154 7th 1 3 4th 17th
1974/75 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 15th 10 8th 18th 47 - - - - - -
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 63 21st 18th 39 +23 108 11 0 1 1 +1 7th
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 11 16 27 +5 88 10 0 1 1 ± 0 27
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 74 18th 28 46 +26 61 14th 3 0 3 +5 9
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 56 10 14th 24 +6 44 5 2 1 3 ± 0 16
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 76 30th 29 59 +23 74 13 3 4th 7th ± 0 13
1979/80 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 16 26th 42 +5 105 10 0 11 11 +7 14th
1980/81 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 25th 38 63 +16 123 3 0 0 0 -5 9
1981/82 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 80 33 40 73 +24 66 5 4th 1 5 +3 24
1982/83 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 80 30th 37 67 +30 87 3 0 1 1 -2 7th
1983/84 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 67 14th 25th 39 +2 112 15th 6th 3 9 +3 31
1984/85 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 75 31 35 66 +21 120 12 2 6th 8th +3 30th
1985/86 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 56 19th 20th 39 +4 55 - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 102 92 88 180 309 11 1 4th 5 21st
NHL overall 852 258 326 584 +185 1043 101 20th 29 49 +15 187

( 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 )

NHL coaching statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp S. N U Pt space Sp S. N result
1995/96 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 40 27 10 90 3rd, Northeast 6th 2 4th Conference quarterfinals
1996/97 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 31 36 15th 77 4th, Northeast 5 1 4th Conference quarterfinals
NHL overall 159 71 63 25th 167 0 division title 11 3 8th 0 Stanley Cups

( Legend for coach statistics: Sp or GC = total games; W or S = wins scored; L or N = losses scored; T or U = draws scored; OTL or OTN = losses scored after overtime or shootout ; Pts or Pkt = points scored ; Pts% or Pkt% = point rate; Win% = win rate; result = round reached in the play-offs )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mario Tremblay at hockeydraftcentral.com (accessed November 22, 2017)
  2. ↑ Stu Cowan: Patrick Roy and Mario Tremblay back on speaking terms. montrealgazette.com, March 28, 2014, accessed November 22, 2017 .
  3. ↑ On the 20th anniversary, a look back at the night that sealed Patrick Roy's fate in Montreal. thehockeynews.com, December 6, 2015, accessed November 22, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tremblay, Mario
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Alma , Quebec , Canada