Michel Parizeau

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CanadaCanada  Michel Parizeau Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 9, 1948
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 73 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1965 , 3rd lap, 10th position
New York Rangers
Career stations
1965-1968 Rangers de Drummondville
1968-1971 Omaha Knights
1971 St. Louis Blues
1971-1972 Philadelphia Flyers
1972-1976 Nordiques de Québec
1976-1979 Indianapolis Racers
1979 Cincinnati stingers

Michel Gérard Parizeau (born April 9, 1948 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 542 games for the Nordiques de Québec , Indianapolis Racers and Cincinnati Stingers in the course of his active career between 1965 and 1979 World Hockey Association (WHA) and 58 other games for the St. Louis Blues and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the position of left winger . Between 1974 and 1976 Parizeau was the second team captain in the franchise history of the Nordiques de Québec. After his career ended, the two-time participant in the WHA All-Star Game worked as a coach in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ).

Career

Parizeau first spent his junior years in his native Montreal , where he played in the 1964/65 season for the Métros de Montréal in the lower class junior leagues of the Franco-Canadian metropolis. By the election in the NHL Amateur Draft 1965 by the New York Rangers from the National Hockey League (NHL), who had selected him in the third round in tenth place, the striker ran from the fall of 1965 for the Rangers de Drummondville in the previous league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Quebec (LHJMQ) on. He spent three years with the junior team cooperating with the New York Rangers and took part with him in the prestigious Memorial Cup in 1968. As part of the statistics recorded since 1966, the offensive player completed 108 games for the Rangers, in which he collected 181 points scorer .

For the 1968/69 season Parizeau switched to the professional field - as was customary at the time at the age of 20. Since he did not make the jump into the NHL roster of the New York Rangers, he came to their farm team , the Omaha Knights , in the Central Hockey League (CHL). There the attacker spent a total of three seasons up to the summer of 1971, which were extremely successful, but did not result in the young player making it into the NHL. He already scored 61 points in his rookie season in Omaha. Although the second year was a step backwards in his offensive production with only 29 points, the Knights managed to win the Adams Cup . The franchise was able to win the title again in the following year, in which Parizeau was second in the scorer ranking with 84 points behind his teammate Pierre Jarry . He was also appointed to the league's First All-Star Team.

Due to the significant increase in the 1970/71 season , the St. Louis Blues from the NHL secured the transfer rights of the French-Canadian via the Intra-League Draft in June 1971, who was thus in the Blues squad at the beginning of the 1971/72 season . However, Parizeau only ran for St. Louis until the beginning of December, as he was signed on the waiver list by the Philadelphia Flyers , who took over his current contract. With the Flyers, the winger ended his only NHL season with another 37 appearances. In the summer of 1972 he moved to the World Hockey Association (WHA), which was founded as a competitive league to the NHL , where the Nordiques de Québec had already secured its transfer rights for this league in February 1972 as part of the WHA General Player Draft . Back in his home province, he spent three and a half seasons with the Nordiques, whose second team captain in franchise history he became in the 1974/75 season when he inherited Jean-Guy Gendron . In the same year he led Québec into the final series of the Avco World Trophy , where they however clearly defeated the Houston Eros with 0: 4. In the course of the 1975/76 season , the Nordiques parted ways with their captain when they gave him  to the league rivals Indianapolis Racers in exchange for three players -  Michel Dubois , Bill Prentice and Bob Fitchner .

With the Indianapolis Racers Parizeau took on a different role and was no longer the successful scorer, who had always collected at least 60 points per season in his three years with the Nordiques de Québec. Nevertheless, he was still successful in the WHA and in 1977 took part in the WHA All-Star Game for the second time since 1973 . Ultimately, he also spent three years in the service of the racers in the league before they had to stop playing in the current season for financial reasons. He then moved as a free agent to the Cincinnati Stingers , where he ended the 1978/79 season. Since the WHA was dissolved in the wake of the season and the Stingers were not among the four franchises that were accepted into the NHL, the Edmonton Oilers , which were one of the four teams , secured Parizeau's services in the 1979 WHA Dispersal Draft . However, the 31-year-old decided against continuing his career and subsequently ended it.

Instead of continuing to be active as a player, Parizeau began to work in the 1979/80 season as head coach of the Syracuse Firebirds in the American Hockey League (AHL). However, the engagement ended with the franchise dissolution after the season. It was not until the 1983/84 season that he returned behind the gang when he was in charge of the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi from the LHJMQ for a year. He then worked between 1984 and 1987 for league competitor Voltigeurs de Drummondville in the same position. He also acted as assistant coach of the Canadian U20 national team at the 1986 World Junior Championship , where the Canadians won the silver medal in their own country. After 1987 Parizeau retired completely from ice hockey and worked successfully in the insurance industry in his adopted home of Drummondville .

Achievements and Awards

  • 1973 Participation in the WHA All-Star Game
  • 1977 Participation in the WHA All-Star Game

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1964/65 Métros de Montréal LHJMM Statistics not available
1965/66 Rangers de Drummondville LHJQ Statistics not available
1966/67 Rangers de Drummondville LHJQ 45 23 45 68 51 3 2 1 3 0
1967/68 Rangers de Drummondville LHJQ 50 29 62 91 62 10 7th 12 19th 2
1968 Rangers de Drummondville Memorial Cup 4th 2 4th 6th 0
1968/69 Omaha Knights CHL 71 22nd 39 61 20th 7th 1 3 4th 0
1969/70 Omaha Knights CHL 71 13 16 29 30th 12 7th 3 10 9
1970/71 Omaha Knights CHL 72 35 49 84 43 11 4th 7th 11 11
1971/72 St. Louis Blues NHL 21st 1 2 3 8th - - - - -
1971/72 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 37 2 12 14th 10 - - - - -
1972/73 Nordiques de Québec WHA 75 25th 48 73 50 - - - - -
1973/74 Nordiques de Québec WHA 78 26th 34 60 39 - - - - -
1974/75 Nordiques de Québec WHA 78 28 46 74 69 15th 2 4th 6th 10
1975/76 Nordiques de Québec WHA 58 12 27 39 22nd - - - - -
1975/76 Indianapolis Racers WHA 23 13 15th 28 20th 7th 4th 4th 8th 6th
1976/77 Indianapolis Racers WHA 75 18th 37 55 39 8th 3 6th 9 8th
1977/78 Indianapolis Racers WHA 70 13 27 40 47 - - - - -
1978/79 Indianapolis Racers WHA 22nd 4th 9 13 4th - - - - -
1978/79 Cincinnati stingers WHA 30th 3 9 12 28 3 1 0 1 0
LHJQ total 95 52 107 159 113 13 9 13 22nd 2
CHL total 214 70 104 174 93 30th 12 13 25th 20th
NHL overall 58 3 14th 17th 18th - - - - -
WHA total 509 142 252 394 318 33 10 14th 24 24

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Parizeau, Michel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parizeau, Michel Gérard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada