Patrick Poulin

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Patrick Poulin
Date of birth April 23, 1973
place of birth Vanier , Quebec , Canada
size 185 cm
Weight 95 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft 1991 , 1st lap, 9th position
Hartford Whalers
Career stations
1989-1992 Laser de Saint-Hyacinthe
1992-1993 Hartford Whalers
1993-1996 Chicago Blackhawks
1996-1998 Tampa Bay Lightning
1998-2001 Canadiens de Montréal
2001-2002 Citadelles de Quebec

Patrick Poulin (born April 23, 1973 in Vanier , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The left winger completed over 600 games for the Hartford Whalers , Chicago Blackhawks , Tampa Bay Lightning and Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League between 1992 and 2001 .

Career

youth

Patrick Poulin was born in Vanier, which is now part of Québec City . There he ran in his youth for the Gouverneurs de Sainte-Foy , among others , before he was selected in the entry draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) in first overall position by the Canadien junior de Verdun in 1989 . At the beginning of the following season 1989/90, however, the team moved to Saint-Hyacinthe , so that the attacker ran from then on for the Laser de Saint-Hyacinthe in the highest junior league of his home province. In his debut season, he recorded 51 points from 60 games, so that he was included in the LHJMQ all-rookie team . He then increased his performance from year to year, where he was considered in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft in ninth position by the Hartford Whalers . The Canadian only made his breakthrough in his third and final year in Saint-Hyacinthe, when he recorded 138 points in 56 games and therefore received the trophy Jean Béliveau as the league's top scorer. In addition, he was honored with the Paul Dumont Trophy as Personality of the Year and appointed to the LHJMQ First All-Star Team .

NHL

Already towards the end of the 1991/92 season Poulin made his debut in April 1992 for the Hartford Whalers in the National Hockey League (NHL) and scored his first two goals in the subsequent playoffs in 1992 . He also played a game for the Whalers' farm team , the Springfield Indians , in the post-season of the American Hockey League (AHL). In the following season 1992/93 the winger got 51 scorer points from 81 games as a rookie , which should also be by far the best NHL season statistics of his career. His time in Hartford ended at the beginning of the next season, when he and Eric Weinrich were handed over to the Chicago Blackhawks in November 1993 and Steve Larmer and Bryan Marchment moved to the Whalers in return . With the Blackhawks he continued to appear as a regular scorer, while he reached the conference final with the team in the 1995 playoffs and was defeated by the Detroit Red Wings ; he should not get any closer to the Stanley Cup in his career.

After a little more than two years in the Windy City , the Blackhawks transferred him in March 1996 together with Igor Ulanow and a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft 1996 to the Tampa Bay Lightning and received Enrico Ciccone as well as a second-round vote in the same draft. In the Lightning jersey, Poulin only played a full season before he was sent to the Canadiens de Montréal with Mick Vukota and Igor Ulanow in January 1998 , while Tampa received Stéphane Richer , Darcy Tucker and David Wilkie in return . In his French-Canadian homeland, the attacker was to spend the longest uninterrupted time of his NHL career, so he played over 250 games for the Canadiens over the next four years. At the end of December 2001, he was in Montréal for the last time on the ice, before he let his career end for the rest of the season at the Citadelles de Québec , the Canadiens farm team from the AHL. Subsequently, Poulin ended his active career in the summer of 2002, in which he had completed 666 NHL games and scored 243 points scorer.

International

At the international level, Poulin took part with the Canadian U20 national team in the Junior World Cup in 1992 and finished sixth there with the team.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt +/- SM Sp T V Pt +/- SM
1989/90 Laser de Saint-Hyacinthe LHJMQ 60 25th 26th 51 55 12 1 9 10 5
1990/91 Laser de Saint-Hyacinthe LHJMQ 56 32 38 70 82 4th 1 1 2 6th
1991/92 Laser de Saint-Hyacinthe LHJMQ 56 52 86 138 56 5 2 2 4th 4th
1991/92 Springfield Indians AHL - - - - - - 1 0 0 0 -1 0
1991/92 Hartford Whalers NHL 1 0 0 0 -1 2 7th 2 1 3 +2 0
1992/93 Hartford Whalers NHL 81 20th 31 51 -19 37 - - - - - -
1993/94 Hartford Whalers NHL 9 2 1 3 -8th 11 - - - - - -
1993/94 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 58 12 13 25th ± 0 40 4th 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1994/95 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 45 15th 15th 30th +13 53 16 4th 1 5 +1 8th
1995/96 Indianapolis Ice IHL 1 0 1 1 ± 0 0 - - - - - -
1995/96 Chicago Blackhawks NHL 38 7th 8th 15th +7 16 - - - - - -
1995/96 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 8th 0 1 1 ± 0 0 2 0 0 0 ± 0 0
1996/97 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 73 12 14th 26th -16 56 - - - - - -
1997/98 Tampa Bay Lightning NHL 44 2 7th 9 -3 19th - - - - - -
1997/98 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 34 4th 6th 10 -1 8th 3 0 0 0 -1 0
1998/99 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 81 8th 17th 25th +6 21st - - - - - -
1999/00 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 82 10 5 15th -15 17th - - - - - -
2000/01 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 52 9 11 20th +1 13 - - - - - -
2001/02 Citadelles de Quebec AHL 31 15th 7th 19th -12 6th 3 0 2 2 -2 0
2001/02 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 28 0 5 5 +6 6th - - - - - -
LHJMQ total 172 109 150 259 193 21st 4th 12 16 15th
AHL total 31 12 7th 19th -12 6th 4th 0 2 2 -3 0
NHL overall 634 101 134 235 -30 299 32 6th 2 8th +2 8th

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1992 Canada June World Cup 6th place 7th 2 2 4th 2
Juniors overall 7th 2 2 4th 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Poulin, Patrick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 23, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Vanier , Quebec , Canada