Michel Goulet

Michel Goulet
Hockey Hall of Fame , 1998
Date of birth	April 21, 1960
place of birth	Péribonka , Quebec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1979 , 1st lap, 20th position Québec Nordiques
Career stations
1976-1988	Québec Remparts
1978-1979	Birmingham Bulls
1979-1990	Québec Nordiques
1990-1994	Chicago Blackhawks

Michel Bernard Goulet (born April 21, 1960 in Péribonka , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played for the Québec Nordiques and Chicago Blackhawks in the National Hockey League and the Birmingham Bulls in the World Hockey Association from 1979 to 1994 .

Career

After playing as a junior with the Québec Remparts in the QMJHL , he began his professional career in the WHA with the Birmingham Bulls . From a sporting point of view, this did not cause him any problems, but Goulet, who grew up in the province of Québec, spoke hardly any English and initially found it difficult to cope with his French in the deep south of Alabama. In the 1979 NHL Entry Draft , the Québec Nordiques brought him back home as No. 20. Goulet was henceforth one of the most consistent goalscorers in the NHL. Except for his last season, he always scored more than 20 goals. From the 1981/82 season on, he exceeded the 40 goal mark seven times in a row. Despite the great aggressiveness in his game, the left winger always remained fair. For years he was one of the pillars and top scorers of the Nordiques. It was a great experience for him to take part in the Rendez-vous '87 with the Canadian national team, which was played in two games against the USSR instead of the NHL All-Star Games . He was also able to help defend the title at the Canada Cup that year . When the team in Québec was rebuilt at the end of the 1980s to save costs, the time had come for him to leave the Nordiques at the end of the 1989/90 season .

At the Chicago Blackhawks he had to play a much more defensive role than before in Quebec. In the summer of 1990 he was diagnosed with heart problems, but a complicated operation was able to ensure the continuation of his career. With a hat trick against Minnesota on February 23, 1991, he became the 30th player to score his 1,000 scorer point in the NHL.

On March 16, 1994, he crashed into the gang in a game for the Montréal Canadiens and suffered a severe head injury that forced him to retire. Exactly one year after this accident, his jersey with the number 16 was hung under the roof in Québec and the number has not been assigned by the team since then. However, in 1995 the team moved from Quebec to Denver under the name Colorado Avalanche , which again assigned the number.

In 1998 he was honored with the induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame .

In the following years Goulet was active in the organization of the Avalanche, when the team won the Stanley Cup in 1996 and 2001 , his name was immortalized on the trophy.

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	15th	1089	548	604	1152	825
NHL playoffs	10	92	39	39	78	110
WHA regular season	1	78	28	30th	58	65

Achievements and Awards

• 1983 NHL Second All-Star Team
• 1984 NHL First All-Star Team
• 1986 NHL First All-Star Team
• 1987 NHL First All-Star Team
• 1988 NHL Second All-Star Team
• 1998 induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame
• 2012 admission to the Temple de la Renommée de la LHJMQ

International

• 1983 bronze medal at the world championship
• 1984 gold medal at the Canada Cup
• 1987 gold medal at the Canada Cup

Web links

• Michel Goulet in the database of the Hockey Hall of Fame (English)
• Michel Goulet at hockeydb.com (English)