Normand Lacombe

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CanadaCanada  Normand Lacombe Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 18, 1964
place of birth Pierrefonds , Québec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 93 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1983 , 1st lap, 10th position
Buffalo Sabers
Career stations
1979-1981 Lac St-Louis Lions
1981-1983 University of New Hampshire
1983-1987 Rochester Americans
1984-1987 Buffalo Sabers
1987-1990 Edmonton Oilers
1990-1991 Philadelphia Flyers
1991-1992 Team Canada

Normand "Norm" Lacombe (born October 18, 1964 in Pierrefonds , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player . The right winger played over 300 games for the Buffalo Sabers , Edmonton Oilers and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League between 1984 and 1991 . With the Oilers he won the Stanley Cup in the 1988 playoffs .

Career

Normand Lacombe was born in Pierrefonds, now a district of Montréal , and played for the Lac St-Louis Lions in his youth . Although he was in 1981 in the draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , the highest junior league in his home province, considered in fifth position by the Cataractes de Shawinigan , the Canadian decided to move to the University of New Hampshire in the United States. With their ice hockey team, the Wildcats , he took part in the game operations of the ECAC , a league of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) , over the next two years . He was named Rookie of the Year by the ECAC in 1982 and after 43 scorer points in 35 games in the following year he was appointed to the Second All-Star Team before the Buffalo Sabers selected him in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft in tenth position.

Subsequently, Lacombe moved to Buffalo for the 1983/84 season, but subsequently failed to meet expectations of a player selected in the first draft election round. He was mainly used in the Sabers farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL) and was never able to establish himself in Buffalo's squad for almost three and a half years, for which he was in the National Hockey League (NHL ) had debuted. Finally, the winger was handed over to the Edmonton Oilers in March 1987 along with Wayne Van Dorp and a four-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 , who in return sent Lee Fogolin , Mark Napier and also a four-round vote for the same draft to Buffalo.

With the Oilers, Lacombe was regularly used in the NHL and won the Stanley Cup with the team in the 1988 playoffs , the team's fourth title in the last five years. In the following year 1988/89 he reached his career record with 17 hits before he was transferred to the Philadelphia Flyers in January 1990 without further consideration . With the Flyers, the attacker spent his last NHL season in 1990/91, with 31 points scorer at the same time, his NHL high. After he had played a few games for the Canadian national team in the 1991/92 season , he had to end his active career due to a chronic compartment syndrome in the lower leg. In total, he had completed 345 games in the NHL and scored 121 points scorer.

After the end of his playing career, he temporarily worked as a coach in the junior area, but subsequently shifted his focus to training in strength and conditioning. In this regard, he was active for the Czech HC Kometa Brno and was responsible for the Canadian curling team for the 2002 Winter Olympics .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1979/80 Lac St-Louis Lions QMAAA 42 20th 33 53 40 5 4th 4th 8th 0
1980/81 Lac St-Louis Lions QMAAA 47 36 59 95 48 6th 3 4th 7th 16
1981/82 University of New Hampshire NCAA 35 18th 16 34 38
1982/83 University of New Hampshire NCAA 35 18th 25th 43 48
1983/84 Rochester Americans AHL 44 10 16 26th 45 - - - - - -
1984/85 Rochester Americans AHL 33 13 16 29 33 5 3 1 4th 4th
1984/85 Buffalo Sabers NHL 30th 2 4th 6th -3 25th - - - - - -
1985/86 Rochester Americans AHL 32 10 13 23 56 - - - - - -
1985/86 Buffalo Sabers NHL 25th 6th 7th 13 +7 13 - - - - - -
1986/87 Rochester Americans AHL 13 6th 5 11 4th - - - - - -
1986/87 Buffalo Sabers NHL 39 4th 7th 11 -10 8th - - - - - -
1986/87 Nova Scotia Oilers AHL 10 3 5 8th 4th 5 1 1 2 6th
1986/87 Edmonton Oilers NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 2 - - - - - -
1987/88 Edmonton Oilers NHL 53 8th 9 17th -3 36 19th 3 0 3 ± 0 28
1988/89 Edmonton Oilers NHL 64 17th 11 28 +2 57 7th 2 1 3 +3 21st
1989/90 Edmonton Oilers NHL 15th 5 2 7th +4 21st - - - - - -
1989/90 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 18th 0 2 2 ± 0 7th - - - - - -
1990/91 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 74 11 20th 31 -1 27 - - - - - -
QMAAA total 89 56 92 148 88 11 7th 8th 15th 16
NCAA overall 70 36 41 77 86
AHL total 132 42 55 97 142 10 4th 2 6th 10
NHL overall 319 53 62 115 -5 196 26th 5 1 6th +3 49

( 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 Lacombe, Normand
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lacombe, Norm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Pierrefonds , Québec , Canada