Michel Parizeau
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
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Career statistics
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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 )
Web links
- Michel Parizeau at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Michel Parizeau at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Michel Parizeau at hockeydraftcentral.com
personal data | |
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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 |