Orval Tessier

Orval Tessier
Date of birth	June 30, 1933
place of birth	Cornwall , Ontario , Canada
size	173 cm
Weight	81 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1951-1952	Kitchener Greenshirts
1952-1953	Kitchener Barrie Barrie Flyers
1953-1955	Montreal Royals
1955	Montréal Canadiens Boston Bruins
1955-1957	Québec Aces
1957-1958	Springfield Indians
1958-1959	Trois-Rivières Lions
1960-1961	Boston Bruins
1959-1962	Kingston Frontenacs
1962-1964	Portland Buckaroos
1964-1965	Clinton Comets

Orval Roy Tessier (born June 30, 1933 in Cornwall , Ontario ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played for the Montréal Canadiens and Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League from 1954 to 1961 and the Chicago Black Hawks from 1982 to 1985 trained.

Career

Tessier played with Don Cherry , Don McKenney and Doug Mohns for the Barrie Flyers in the Ontario Hockey Association during his junior years . With the team he won the Memorial Cup in 1953 .

He completed his first two seasons in the senior division for the Montreal Royals in the Quebec Hockey League . In the 1954/55 season he came to the first four missions in the NHL with the Montréal Canadiens . With only six teams in the NHL, places were tight. The Canadiens squad in particular was very staffed during these years.

In the summer of 1955, the Boston Bruins took the opportunity and signed him in the intra-league draft . Initially he was used again in the QHL, this time with the Quebec Aces . For 23 games in the 1955/56 season , he also went on the ice in the NHL. Tessier also scored his first two goals. The following years he played successfully in the lower leagues. His stations were the Springfield Indians in the American Hockey League , the Trois-Rivières Lions in the QHL and the Kingston Frontenacs in the Eastern Professional Hockey League .

For the 1960/61 season he returned to the Bruins in the NHL. There, however, he could not build on the performance in the EPHL. This was followed by two years with the Portland Buckaroos in the Western Hockey League . Then the Canadiens bought him back, but there were no further appearances in the NHL. He played another year with the Clinton Comets in the Eastern Hockey League before ending his active career.

At the beginning of the 1970s, Tessier took over as a coach of the junior team of the Cornwall Royals in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League , with which he won the 1972 Memorial Cup. After a detour to the Québec Remparts , he soon returned to Cornwall. His third coaching station was in the QMJHL, the Chicoutimi Saguenéens . After a year with the Kitchener Rangers in the Ontario Hockey League , he took over his first senior team in 1981 with the New Brunswick Hawks from the AHL. He led the Hawks to the Calder Cup and was then brought into the NHL by the Chicago Black Hawks . In his first year he received the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the league . During his third season in the 1984/85 season , his coaching career in the NHL ended. He returned to the Cornwall Royals after his release, who now played in the OHL.

He later worked as a scout for the Colorado Avalanche . When the team won the Stanley Cup in 2001 , their name was also engraved on the trophy.

NHL statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
Regular season	2	59	5	7th	12	6th
Playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Sporting successes

• Memorial Cup : 1953 (as a player), 1972 (as a coach)
• Calder Cup : 1982 (as coach)
• Stanley Cup : 2001 (as Scout)

Personal awards

• QHL First All-Star Team: 1955 and 1957
• President's Cup (QHL top scorer): 1957
• QHL Second All-Star Team: 1959
• EHL North Second All-Star Team: 1965
• Jack Adams Award : 1983

Web links

• Orval Tessier at hockeydb.com (English)
• Orval Tessier at legendsofhockey.net (English)