Philippe Bozon

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FranceFrance  Philippe Bozon Ice hockey player
IIHF Hall of Fame , 2008
Date of birth November 30, 1966
place of birth Chamonix , France
size 180 cm
Weight 87 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Left
Career stations
until 1984 CS Megève
1984-1987 Castors de Saint-Jean
1987 Peoria Rivermen
1987-1989 HC Mont-Blanc
1989-1991 CSG Grenoble
1991-1992 HC Chamonix
1992-1995 St. Louis Blues
1995 Grenoble Métropole Hockey 38
1995-1996 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1996 Lausanne Hockey Club
1996-1999 Adler Mannheim
1999-2001 HC Lugano
2001-2006 HC Servette Genève

Philippe Bozon (born November 30, 1966 in Chamonix ) is a former French ice hockey player and current coach , who worked for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League and the Adler Mannheim in the German from 1984 to 2006 Has played ice hockey league . His father Alain Bozon and his son Tim were and are also professional ice hockey players.

Player career

Philippe Bozon began his career as an ice hockey player in his French homeland at CS Megève , for whose professional team he was active from 1982 to 1984 in the Ligue Magnus , the top French division. In the 1982/83 season he was also awarded the Trophée Jean-Pierre Graff as Rookie of the Year of the Ligue Magnus. The winger then played from 1984 to 1987 for the Castors de Saint-Jean in the Canadian junior league QMJHL . In the 1985/86 season he was elected to the second All-Star Team of the QMJHL. During his time as a junior player he was selected as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues on September 29, 1985 , for whose farm team Peoria Rivermen he made 33 appearances in the International Hockey League from 1985 to 1987, parallel to playing with the Castors , in which he scored five goals and gave eleven assists.

For the 1987/88 season Bozon returned to France, where he received a contract with HC Mont-Blanc , with which he was French champion straight away . From 1989 to 1991 he played for their league rivals CSG Grenoble , with whom he also won the French championship title in the 1990/91 season after he had already received the Albert Hassler trophy as the best French player in the Ligue Magnus the previous year . The 1991/92 season he began at HC Chamonix , for which he scored 49 points in 22 games in Ligue Magnus, including 30 goals. In the middle of the season he joined the St. Louis Blues, for which he scored two goals in 15 games in the National Hockey League and gave three assists. In the following two seasons, the Frenchman was a regular for the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. In the 1994/95 season , which was shortened due to a lockout , he only played one more NHL appearance for the Blues before returning to France to his ex-club from Grenoble.

In the 1995/96 season Bozon was standing by the HC La Chaux-de-Fonds in the Swiss National League B under contract. He began the following season at its league rivals Lausanne HC , before moving to the Adler Mannheim from the German Ice Hockey League in the middle of the season. With Mannheim he was German champion three times in a row in 1997, 1998 and 1999 . From 1999 to 2001, the four-time Olympian for the HC Lugano played in the Swiss National League A . He then moved to the second division HC Servette Genève , with whom he immediately achieved promotion to the National League A in the 2001/02 season. In this he played for HC Servette until he retired at the age of 39 following the 2005/06 season . In 2008 he was only the third Frenchman to have the honor of being inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame .

International

Back of a national jersey with Bozon's name

For France , Bozon took part in the B World Championships in 1990 , 1991 and 2001 and the A World Championships in 1992 , 1994 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 and 2000 . He was also in his country's squad at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary , 1992 in Albertville , 1998 in Nagano and 2002 in Salt Lake City . At the 1988 Winter Games, he was not used as a substitute.

Coaching career

The 2006 and 2009 supervised Bozon U20 Juniors of HC Servette Genève in the Elite Junior A. In January 2010, he was following the dismissal of Sweden Kent Johansson as head coach at HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A appointed. After ten months in office, he was dismissed in November 2010 after a disappointing start to the season, as HC Lugano only took one place in the playouts after 27 games . During his time in Lugano, he also stood behind the gang for the French junior national team at the 2010 U20 Junior B World Cup .

Achievements and Awards

As a player

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Castors de Saint-Jean QMJHL 67 32 50 82 82 5 0 5 5 4th
1985/86 Castors de Saint-Jean QMJHL 65 59 52 111 72 10 10 6th 16 16
1985/86 Peoria Rivermen IHL - - - - - 5 1 0 1 0
1986/87 Castors de Saint-Jean QMJHL 25th 20th 21st 41 75 8th 5 5 10 30th
1986/87 Peoria Rivermen IHL 28 4th 11 15th 17th - - - - -
1987/88 Mont-Blanc HC LM 18th 11 15th 26th 34 10 15th 6th 21st 6th
1988/89 Mont-Blanc HC LM 29 22nd 36 58 56 11 11 17th 28 38
1989/90 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble LM 36 45 38 83 34 6th 4th 3 7th 2
1990/91 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble LM 26th 22nd 16 38 16 10 7th 8th 15th 8th
1991/92 HC Chamonix LM 22nd 30th 19th 49 40 12 18th 1 19th -
1991/92 St. Louis Blues NHL 9 1 3 4th 4th 6th 1 0 1 27
1992/93 Peoria Rivermen IHL 4th 3 2 5 2 - - - - -
1992/93 St. Louis Blues NHL 54 6th 6th 12 55 6th 1 0 1 27
1993/94 St. Louis Blues NHL 80 9 16 25th 42 4th 0 0 0 4th
1994/95 St. Louis Blues NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1994/95 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble LM 14th 6th 16 22nd 12 7th 2 4th 6th 30th
1995/96 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 29 31 28 59 48 11 13 10 23 10
1996/97 Lausanne HC NLB 23 17th 15th 32 89 - - - - -
1996/97 Adler Mannheim DEL 22nd 11 7th 18th 6th 9 6th 9 15th 2
1997/98 Adler Mannheim DEL 41 20th 17th 37 36 11 5 5 10 18th
1998/99 Adler Mannheim DEL 51 17th 30th 47 66 12 4th 5 9 30th
1999/00 HC Lugano NLA 44 13 31 44 73 12 9 6th 15th 37
2000/01 HC Lugano NLA 41 18th 26th 44 42 10 7th 2 9 6th
2001/02 HC Servette Genève NLA 31 24 35 59 22nd 12 10 11 21st 12
2002/03 HC Servette Genève NLA 43 19th 19th 38 47 6th 0 2 2 10
2003/04 HC Servette Genève NLA 43 12 28 40 18th 6th 1 0 1 4th
2004/05 HC Servette Genève NLA 38 12 27 39 55 4th 1 2 3 0
2005/06 HC Servette Genève NLA 9 2 0 2 6th - - - - -
QMJHL total 157 111 123 234 229 23 15th 16 31 50
IHL total 32 7th 13 20th 19th 5 1 0 1 0
IHL total 63 18th 33 51 45 2 0 0 0 2
Ligue Magnus overall 145 136 140 276 192 56 57 39 96 84
National League B total 52 48 43 91 137 11 13 10 23 10
National League A overall 249 100 166 266 263 50 28 23 51 69
DEL total 114 48 54 102 108 32 15th 19th 34 50
NHL overall 144 16 25th 41 101 16 2 0 2 58

( 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 )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ HC Lugano dismisses coach Bozon

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personal data
SURNAME Bozon, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 30, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Chamonix , France