Patrice Lefebvre

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Patrice Lefebvre
Date of birth June 28, 1967
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 168 cm
Weight 73 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1984-1988 Shawinigan Cataractes
1988-1989 Français Volants de Paris
1989-1990 HC Ajoie
1990-1991 Louisville Icehawks
Milwaukee Admirals
1991-1992 EHC Kloten
Teeside Bombers
1992-1993 Billingham Bombers
1993-1999 Las Vegas Thunder
1999 Long Beach Ice Dogs
1999-2000 Adler Mannheim
2000-2001 Frankfurt Lions
2001-2004 HC Milano Vipers
2004-2005 Rødovre SIK
2005-2006 EHC Biel
2006-2007 Lausanne HC
2007-2008 SG Pontebba
2008 HC Milano Vipers
2008-2009 HC Valpellice
2010 HC Real Turin

Patrice Lefebvre (born June 28, 1967 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Italo - Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who worked for the Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League , the Adler Mannheim and Frankfurt Lions in the German Hockey League and the EHC Biel and Lausanne HC of the Swiss National League B played. He is currently the head coach at HC Gherdëinain the Alps Hockey League .

Career

The 1.68 m tall winger began his career with the Shawinigan Cataractes in the Canadian Junior League Québec Major Junior Hockey League . His 595 scorer points in the regular season from 1984 to 1988 are the most of any QMJHL player of all time. In 1988 he moved to the French Ligue Magnus for the Français Volants de Paris .

After another year in the Swiss National League A at HC Ajoie , Lefebvre went back to North America in 1990, where he worked for the Louisville Icehawks in the Minor League East Coast Hockey League and for the Milwaukee Admirals in the American Hockey League and the Springfield Indians was on the ice in the international hockey league . The left-handed shooter went to Switzerland again and then signed a contract with the Teesside Bombers from the British National League . Another station in Great Britain were the Billingham Bombers in the 1992/93 series.

After his time in England Lefebvre moved again to North America, where he played for six years for the Las Vegas Thunder in the IHL and in the 1998/99 season completed three games for the Washington Capitals from the National Hockey League . 1997/98 the Italian-Canadian scored the most IHL goals of the season and was then voted Most Valuable Player of the entire season. For the 1999/00 season Lefebvre signed a contract with DEL - record champion Adler Mannheim , which he left after a year in the direction of Frankfurt Lions . After three years with HCJ Vipers Milan in Italy and another engagement with Danish first division club Rødovre IK , the striker finally moved back to Switzerland, where he initially worked for EHC Biel and later for HC Lausanne. For the 2007/08 season he moved back to Italy, where he played for SG Pontebba and HC Valpellice . At the end of the 2008/09 season he resigned as a player and became assistant coach at the Val d'Or Foreurs in the North American junior league QMJHL.

In 2004, Lefebvre married an Italian woman and that is why he became an Italian citizen. In 2007 he played the A-Ice Hockey World Championship with the Italian national ice hockey team.

He began his coaching career in 2009 as an assistant coach to the Foreurs de Val-d'Or in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League . In 2010 he also played two more games as an active player for HC Real Turin in Serie A2 . In July 2010 he became a coach at the Italian club HC Como , where he took over the first team in the third division. Only three months later he was involved with the HC Lugano Ladies, the women's team at HC Lugano , where he was again employed as the team's coach. After starting the 2012/13 season as an assistant coach at HC Sierre in the second highest Swiss division, he moved to EHC Olten during the same season .

In the 2014/15 season he was head coach at HC Eppan in the Italian Serie A. In the following season he worked in the same position at Asiago Hockey . During the 2016/17 season, Lefebvre took over the position of head coach at HC Gherdëina with play in the Alps Hockey League .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL 68 28 52 80 63 8th 3 7th 10 27
1985/86 Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL 69 38 98 136 146 5 2 5 7th 14th
1986/87 Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL 69 57 122 179 144 12 9 16 25th 19th
1987/88 Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL 70 64 136 200 142 11 5 24 29 4th
1988/89 Français Volants de Paris LM 40 40 50 90 - - - - -
1989/90 HC Ajoie NLA 32 21st 22nd 43 36 - - - - -
1990/91 Louisville Icehawks ECHL 26th 17th 26th 43 32 7th 2 5 7th 8th
1990/91 Milwaukee Admirals IHL 16 6th 4th 10 13 - - - - -
1990/91 Springfield Indians AHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1990/91 SC Langnau NLB 3 0 4th 4th 2 - - - - -
1991/92 EHC Kloten NLA 10 4th 8th 12 12 - - - - -
1991/92 HC Sierre NLB 4th 2 2 4th 10 - - - - -
1991/92 Teesside Bombers BNL 31 44 137 181 0 - - - - -
1992/93 Billingham Bombers BNL 36 56 109 165 75 - - - - -
1993/94 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 76 31 67 98 71 5 3 4th 7th 4th
1994/95 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 75 32 62 94 74 10 2 3 5 2
1995/96 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 77 36 78 114 85 15th 9 11 20th 12
1996/97 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 82 21st 73 94 94 3 0 2 2 2
1997/98 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 77 27 89 116 113 4th 2 0 2 2
1998/99 Las Vegas Thunder IHL 42 11 26th 37 40 - - - - -
1998/99 Long Beach Ice Dogs IHL 14th 1 12 13 8th 8th 0 3 3 2
1998/99 Washington Capitals NHL 3 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1999/00 Adler Mannheim DEL 54 20th 31 51 148 5 1 2 3 4th
2000/01 Frankfurt Lions DEL 57 24 39 63 93 - - - - -
2001/02 HC Milan SerA1 33 13 33 46 50 10 7th 12 19th 6th
2002/03 HC Milan SerA1 37 19th 54 73 26th 9 4th 9 13 4th
2003/04 HC Milan SerA1 24 11 31 42 26th 12 3 8th 11 8th
2004/05 Rødovre IK THE 29 6th 32 38 116 3 0 3 3 0
2005/06 EHC Biel NLB 42 18th 56 74 54 17th 5 31 36 20th
2006/07 HC Lausanne NLB 45 19th 79 98 50 11 3 7th 10 39
2007/08 SG Pontebba SerA1 19th 4th 12 16 30th
HC Milan SerA1 12 2 14th 16 4th 9 1 6th 7th 4th
2008/09 HC Valpellice SerA2 37 17th 54 71 90
2009/10 Real Torino SerA2 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0
QMJHL total 276 187 408 595 495 36 19th 52 71 64
IHL total 459 165 411 576 498 45 16 23 39 24
Series A1 overall 119 45 140 185 132 40 15th 35 50 22nd
DEL total 111 44 70 114 241 5 1 2 3 4th
NHL overall 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0

International

Represented Italy at:

year team event Sp T V Pt SM
2007 Italy WM 5 0 0 0 2
Men overall 5 0 0 0 2

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hockeytime: Il Como si affida a Pat Lefebvre
  2. ↑ Hockeytime: Pat Lefebvre a Lugano per le ragazze
  3. ↑ Hockey fans: First coach dismissal for women
personal data
SURNAME Lefebvre, Patrice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian-Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal