Phil Latreille

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
CanadaCanada  Phil Latreille Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 22, 1938
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Center / right winger
Shot hand right
Career stations
until 1957 Thomas D'Arcy McGee
Catholic High School
1957-1961 Middlebury College
1961 New York Rangers
1961 Long Island Ducks
1961-1964 Montréal Olympics
1964-1965 Calgary Spurs (Exhibition)

Joseph Jean Philippe "Phil" Latreille (born April 22, 1938 in Montreal , Quebec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player on the position of a center and right winger .

Latreille, who currently (as of November 2015) still holds seven NCAA ice hockey records, played briefly for the New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) in the 1960/61 season .

life and career

Career start at home

Latreille was born on April 22, 1938 in the up-and-coming metropolis of Montreal in the Canadian province of Quebec. In Montreal, he grew up in a working-class family who spoke some Italian in addition to English and French, and already played ice hockey in the Montreal Forum while still at school . During his high school years, which he spent at the local Thomas D'Arcy McGee Catholic High School , he was an exceptionally accurate and attacking striker who also led his team as a team captain. By the time he graduated from high school, around 70 college teams, as well as two professional teams from the NHL, the Chicago Black Hawks and the Detroit Red Wings , were interested in the young player. While playing on the Thomas D'Arcy McGee Catholic High School team, Latreille was visited one day by longtime college ice hockey coach Duke Nelson . After his visit in the winter of 1957, the offensive player decided to move to Middlebury College , where Nelson had coached the men's ice hockey team since 1946. At a time when the game was not yet divided into NCAA Division I and NCAA Division III , but there was only one major college league, the young Canadian began his successful career at Middlebury College in Middlebury , Vermont, in the fall of 1957 on. There he competed against many teams that are now known as the powerhouse in NCAA Division I and distinguished himself as a highly productive goalscorer.

Records in the NCAA

He was especially notorious for his massive and hard slap shot , which was not yet widespread at the time and with which he, as the later Middlebury ice hockey coach Bill Beaney noted, was way ahead of his time. In his first league game, a clear 15-0 victory over the polar bears of Bowdoin College , he stood next to Dick Morrison and Frank Coy in an attack line consisting exclusively of freshmen, supported by the more experienced Mike Karin , and already came up with two Goals and three assists. In his first season at college he already scored 36 goals and 16 assists in 21 championship games, ending the season with a score of 52. However, these statistics are not officially kept because freshmen, i.e. first-year students, were not officially allowed to participate in university sports at that time . During this time, a fruitful collaboration developed with his congenial partner Mike Karin, with whom he shook the league to its foundations and set numerous school and league records. When Latreille came to college in the fall of 1957, Karin was just beginning his third year (junior) and, as an already somewhat experienced player and playmaker, helped the younger Latreille primarily as an assistant. In his sophomore year he was able to increase his performance again considerably, with 57 hits, 33 assists and thus 90 scorer points achieved in 22 league games. At the end of this season he was first elected to the ECAC All-Second Team and was for the first time in the AHCA East All-American Team .

In 1959/60 he once again exceeded the entire league with his offensive strength, scored 77 goals in 23 games and, together with his 19 assists, reached a total of 96. In the end, this statistic is enough again for the elections to the AHCA East All-American team and to the ECAC All-First-Team . He was also awarded the Walter Brown Plaque , which is awarded annually to the most valuable ice hockey player in New England . In his final senior year, when e first acted as captain of the team, he surpassed his previous performance once again. By the end of the season, 80 goals, 28 assists and thus 108 points were scored from 25 completed championship games. The subsequent elections to the AHCA East All-American-Team and the ECAC All-First-Team were only a matter of form. Over his entire college career, Latreille scored 250 goals, 96 assists and thus 346 points scorer in just 91 championship appearances. Since his freshman successes were not officially rated at the beginning, he is still considered the most dangerous player in the National Collegiate Athletic Association to this day (as of November 2015) with 214 hits, 80 assists and 294 points from 70 championship games in the three subsequent years . He is still one of only eleven players in the history of college ice hockey to be recognized three times as AHCA All-American . In addition to his class, one of the reasons for his goal danger was the fact that at that time he was already using a club with a curved face (blade), which was hardly widespread at the time . Since the factories were not yet making such clubs, Latreille had two workers friend of the Middlebury heating plant heat and shape them especially for him. Another characteristic of Latreilles was that, as was still very common at the time, he played without a helmet and then did so during his short NHL career.

The NCAA records that have existed to date (November 2015) include the most goals scored in a game (10 goals against Colgate University in February 1960) and the most goals in a season (80 goals in the senior year 1960 / 61) and the most hits in a college career (214 and 250 goals in 1957 to 1961 and 1958 to 1961, respectively). He also holds the record for the most points scored per game in a season (5.14 points) and the record for the most points scored per game in a college career (4.07 points). He also scored the most goals in a game in a season with an average of 3.51 goals and the most in a game in a college career with 2.94 goals. With his 108 points in his senior year, he was number one on the list of players with the most points in a season for 22 years before being given 111 points in 1983 by Dave Lair, who scored 111 points in his senior year at Oswego State . was exceeded. He also led the list of players with the most scorer points in their college career for around 20 years, before being surpassed again by Dave Lair (352 points) in 1983. Five years later, Joey Ferras, who later played in Europe, surpassed this by a further seven points (359 points). During his entire time at Middlebury College, he scored 38 hat tricks (three goals and more in one game), including 16 in his senior year alone.

Try-out in the NHL and short-term minor league player

After his outstanding college days, the then 22-year-old was offered an amateur trial contract (try-out) limited to five games by the NHL franchise New York Rangers in March 1961 , which Latreille received on March 10, 1961, shortly before the start of the season-closing play-offs, signed. Before that, he was also in discussion for a trial contract for just three game days. Two days later he was in a game against the Detroit Red Wings , who had courted him in his youth, for the first time in a game of the then only six teams in North America's top ice hockey division. After two more missions during the week, he completed on March 19, 1961 against the Toronto Maple Leafs his last of a total of four NHL regular-time missions and were released from the franchise after the trial contract expired. Up to this point the man with the shirt number 18 was neither successful as a goalscorer nor as an assistant and could not convince the team responsible in any way, although according to the then Rangers trainer Alf Pike he showed an attractive performance, but worked too hard towards a goal. After graduating from college and playing NHL games, Latreille was elected to the All New England hockey team in the same month . Subsequently, the once dangerous Latreille, who was the first NHL player from a college from the state of Vermont, joined the EHL team Long Island Ducks , for which he remained goalless in six games in the 1961/62 season, however contributed two assists and during the current season moved to the Eastern Townships Senior Hockey League , ETSHL for short, to the Montréal Olympics .

Back in his hometown, he made 20 regular season games when he contributed 11 goals and four assists. In the subsequent play-offs he made 13 appearances for the team and again eleven hits and four assists. Latreille was also in action in the Allan Cup in 1962 for the Montreal Olympics. He made it with the team in the best-of-four decision after victories over the Amherst Ramblers in the quarter-finals of the Eastern Playdowns, and over the Buckingham Aces in the semifinals to the final of the Allan Cup playdowns. In this, the team around the dangerous goal center was able to prevail with four wins in the best-of-four mode against the Kapuskasing Kaps and became Eastern Canadian Champion . In the subsequent playoffs against the Western Canadian Champion Trail Smoke Eaters , the team had to admit defeat 1: 4 in a best-of-five series. For the first and only time in its history, the Montréal Olympics were involved in an Allan Cup final. In the following season 1962/63 Latreille ran again for his home club and belonged to it when it appeared in the QUE Sr. League in the 1963/64 season. After he ran up on a test basis for the Calgary Spurs in the West Coast Senior Hockey League , WCSHL for short, in 1964/65, he ended his active career shortly afterwards and largely withdrew from ice hockey.

After retiring as an active person

Following his athletic career, he was successful in business as an entrepreneur, including a door manufacturer, and raised three sons with his wife Eileen (née Glasoe), a Middlebury graduate in 1962 whom he met during college. In 2013, Latreille, who was still interested in ice hockey and who, after retiring as an active player, tried his hand at golf especially at the hobby level, was inducted into the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame .

Awards and successes (selection)

As a player from Middlebury College

  • 3 x election to the AHCA East All-American team : 1958/59, 1959/60 and 1960/61
  • 1 × election to the ECAC All-Second-Team : 1958/59
  • 2 x election to the ECAC All-First-Team : 1959/60 and 1960/61
  • seven-time record holder of the NCAA (currently (as of November 2015) still existing records)

As a player in the Montréal Olympics

  • 1 × Eastern Canadian Champion in the Allan Cup : 1962 (and subsequent 1: 4 defeat in a best-of-five series against the Western Canadian Champion Trail Smoke Eaters )

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM +/- Sp T V Pt SM +/-
1956/57 Thomas D'Arcy McGeey Catholic High School CAHS 10 13 9 22nd - - - - - - - -
1957/58 Middlebury College NCAA 21st 36 16 52 20th - - - - - - -
1958/59 Middlebury College NCAA 22nd 57 33 90 - - - - - - - -
1959/60 Middlebury College NCAA 23 77 19th 96 - - - - - - - -
1960/61 Middlebury College NCAA 25th 80 28 108 - - - - - - - -
1960/61 New York Rangers NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - - - -
1961/62 Long Island Ducks EHL 6th 0 2 2 0 - - - - - - -
1961/62 Montréal Olympics ETSHL 20th 11 4th 15th 0 - 13 11 4th 15th 8th -
1962/63 Montréal Olympics ETSHL - - - - - - - - - - - -
1963/64 Montréal Olympics QUE-Sr. - - - - - - - - - - - -
1964/65 Calgary Spurs (Exhibition) Exhibition - - - - - - - - - - - -
NCAA overall 91 250 96 346 - - - - - - - -
NHL overall 4th 0 0 0 2 - - - - - - -
EHL total 6th 0 2 2 0 - - - - - - -

( 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. ↑ a b c d e The Greatest ( Memento of the original from November 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 17, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sites.middlebury.edu
  2. ^ D'Arcy McGee Beats Loyola 6-2 Allard, Latreille Score Two Each , article in the Montreal Gazette, February 22, 1955, accessed November 17, 2015
  3. ↑ Honor McGee Club For Title Effort , article in Montreal Gazette April 30, 1956, accessed November 17, 2015
  4. ↑ Latreille Sets College Record , article in the Montreal Gazette, March 4, 1959, accessed November 17, 2015
  5. ^ Riley Receives Honor , article in the Lewiston Daily Sun, March 16, 1960, accessed November 17, 2015
  6. ↑ a b Latreille Weighs Rangers' Offer , accessed November 17, 2015
  7. ↑ Fobare Named West All-Star , article in the Schenectady Gazette of March 16, 1983, accessed November 17, 2015
  8. ↑ Collegiate Star With Rangers , article in Beaver County Times, March 11, 1961, accessed November 17, 2015
  9. ^ Milt Lauds Collegians As B's Win , Florida Telegraph article , March 16, 1961, accessed November 17, 2015
  10. ↑ DALEY LEFT OUT (English), article in Heights of March 24, 1961, accessed on November 17, 2015
  11. ↑ Morgan Products sells itself as Cadillac of door maker , article in Milwaukee Journal of December 9, 1984, accessed November 17, 2015
  12. ^ Two holes-in-one highlight weekend golf , article in the Ottawa Citizen of April 29, 1968, accessed on November 17, 2015
  13. ↑ VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME - Phil Latreille (English), accessed on November 17, 2015
  14. ^ Men's Division III Records , accessed November 17, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Latreille, Phil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Latreille, Joseph Jean Philippe (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada