Pascal Leclaire

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CanadaCanada  Pascal Leclaire Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 7, 1982
place of birth Repentigny , Québec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 91 kg
position goalkeeper
number # 33
Catch hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 2001 , 1st round, 8th position
Columbus Blue Jackets
Career stations
1998-2001 Halifax Mooseheads
2001-2002 Montréal Rocket
2002-2005 Syracuse crunch
2005-2009 Columbus Blue Jackets
2009-2011 Ottawa Senators

Pascal Leclaire (born November 7, 1982 in Repentigny , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey goalkeeper who played for the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Ottawa Senators in the National Hockey League between 2005 and 2011 . Previously, he was three seasons long mainly for the Syracuse Crunch in the American Hockey League on the ice.

Career

Pascal Leclaire began his career in 1998 in the Canadian Junior League QMJHL with the Halifax Mooseheads . He played for the team for three years before he was selected in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft by the Columbus Blue Jackets in the first round in eighth position. Leclaire moved shortly thereafter within the QMJHL to the Montréal Rocket , where he completed another season.

Pascal Leclaire in the jersey of the Columbus Blue Jackets

From autumn 2002 he was in the squad of the Syracuse Crunch , the then farm team of the Columbus Blue Jackets in the American Hockey League , where Leclaire was not yet convincing and won only eight of his 36 games. He improved the following season and came in February 2004 to his first two appearances in the National Hockey League , but he lost both games. On March 6, 2004, he parried 50 shots in the game against the Manitoba Moose , while Syracuse had only nine attempts. Syracuse seized one of the few chances, won the match 1-0 and Leclaire managed a shutout .

The 2004/05 season he completed completely with the Syracuse Crunch, since the NHL season was canceled because of the lockout . Leclaire came to 14 missions because he failed to make his breakthrough as a regular goalkeeper.

At the beginning of the 2005/06 season , Leclaire was still part of the Syracuse squad, but was soon called up as a back-up goalkeeper by Marc Denis in the NHL squad, where he played the rest of the season and was allowed 33 times on the ice. He only played the playoffs in the AHL.

After Marc Denis left, Leclaire took over the position of goalkeeper for the Columbus Blue Jackets. On December 12, 2006, he injured his knee and was out for five games. He made his comeback on December 22, 2006 against the Vancouver Canucks , but after 22 minutes he had to leave the ice again injured. He fell out for a long time due to knee surgery. After his recovery he played an outstanding 2007/08 season in which he set a new team record with nine shutouts . In the 2008/09 season , an ankle injury threw him back again. Leclaire lost his position as a goalkeeper and was transferred to the Ottawa Senators in exchange for Antoine Vermette , along with a second-round suffrage in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft .

Pascal Leclaire in the Ottawa Senators jersey

In Ottawa, Leclaire initially shared the playing time with Brian Elliott and was used in 34 games in the 2009/10 season . After 14 appearances in the following season, the goalkeeper had to pause for 25 games due to an injury. In February 2011, he came back to a job with the Binghamton Senators in the AHL before his contract in Ottawa expired. In the following season, however, no other team took him under contract. Leclaire hoped to return to the NHL after three operations on his hip, but he did not make the comeback.

In November 2012, almost two years after his last NHL appearance, Leclaire announced the end of his career on the Canadian television station RDS .

International

For Canada , Leclaire took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2002 and the World Championship in 2008 . At the U20 World Junior Championships in 2002, Leclaire was Canada's goalkeeper and guarded the goal of the "maple leaves" in five matches. He completed an excellent tournament with a goal average of 1.80, a catch rate of 93.7 percent and two shutouts , with Leclaire parrying 35 shots in the 4-0 won semi-final against Switzerland . In the final, the Canadians lost 4-5 against Russia with Leclaire between the posts and won the silver medal. He was then selected as one of three players from his home country together with Jay Bouwmeester and Mike Cammalleri in the All-Star team of the finals. At the senior level, Leclaire was first appointed to the squad for the 2008 World Cup. As the second goalkeeper behind Cam Ward , he was on the ice in four games. Leclaire made his first appearance in the second encounter against Latvia , when he saved all 30 shots on goal of the Latvians in the 7-0 victory of the Ahorn Blätter and immediately booked a shutout. As a result, the two goalkeepers exchanged jobs in every game, so that Leclaire was not on the ice after the 5-4 semi-final victory over Sweden in the final and the Canadians won the silver medal with Cam Ward in goal.

Achievements and Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. rds.ca, P. Leclaire a annoncé sa retraite à RDS , November 12, 2012