Pierre Bouchard (ice hockey player)

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Pierre Bouchard (ice hockey player)
Date of birth February 20, 1948
place of birth Longueuil , Quebec , Canada
Nickname Baby butch
size 188 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1965 , 1st lap, 5th position
Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
1966-1968 Canadien junior de Montréal
1968-1969 Cleveland Barons
1969-1970 Voyageurs de Montréal
1970-1988 Canadiens de Montréal
1978-1982 Washington Capitals
1982-1983 Hershey Bears

Pierre Émile Bouchard (born February 20, 1948 in Longueuil , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 671 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and Washington Capitals in the National Hockey League in the course of his active career between 1966 and 1983 of the defense attorney has denied. Bouchard won the Stanley Cup five times during his twelve seasons in the NHL - all between 1971 and 1978 with the Canadiens de Montréal. His father, Émile "Butch" Bouchard, was also a professional ice hockey player, won four Stanley Cups with the Canadiens and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1966.

Career

Bouchard, whose father Émile was one of the best defensive players of the late 1940s and early 1950s in the National Hockey League , initially played in the lower-class junior leagues in his home province of Québec and was already in college while he was still in college in Laval , in NHL Amateur Draft 1965 selected in the first round in fifth overall position by the Canadiens de Montréal from the NHL. His father had already spent his entire professional career with the Franco-Canadian franchise and won the Stanley Cup four times . Pierre Bouchard, who also took the position of defender, moved after the election in the draft, initially for one game year in the Ligue de hockey junior du Métropolitaine Montréal to the Nationale de Palestre . He then moved to the 1966/67 season in the Ontario Hockey Association , where he went on the ice for two seasons for the Canadien junior de Montréal .

After two years in the country's top junior division, Bouchard switched to the professional field in the summer of 1968. In the high-profile defense association of the NHL squad of the Canadiens around JC Tremblay , Ted Harris and Serge Savard , he was initially unable to assert himself. Instead, the Canadiens de Montréal used their young defensive player in the American Hockey League . The 1968/69 season spent the French-Canadian with the traditional Cleveland Barons , before he was ordered to the Voyageurs de Montréal for the following season 1969/70 within the league . At the beginning of the 1970/71 season Bouchard made the jump into the NHL squad and won the first of a total of five Stanley Cups at the end of his rookie season . In the following years, the Canadiens developed into a dominant team again, which subsequently celebrated further title successes. The robust and unspectacularly playing Bouchard won four more cups in 1973 , 1976 , 1977 and 1978 .

In October 1978, Bouchard finally had to leave the Canadiens after being selected by the Washington Capitals in the NHL Waiver Draft . Although the parties involved worked out a transfer through which Bouchard would have returned to Montréal, the then NHL President John Ziegler did not approve the transaction. Bouchard then denied in the 1978/79 season out of anger only one game for the capital city and publicly considered to withdraw from active professional sport. Ultimately, however, the Canadian came to terms with the situation and added the Capitals line-up at the beginning of the 1979/80 game year . He remained in the franchise until the summer of 1983, where he spent the last season with the exception of an NHL game in the squad of the farm team Hershey Bears in the AHL. He then announced his final retirement from active sport at the age of 35.

Achievements and Awards

  • 1977 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1978 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1966/67 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 48 4th 9 13 105 6th 0 0 0 2
1967/68 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 54 10 18th 28 13 11 2 2 4th 20th
1968/69 Cleveland Barons AHL 69 6th 16 22nd 32 5 1 1 2 14th
1969/70 Voyageurs de Montréal AHL 65 5 13 18th 124 8th 1 3 4th 24
1970/71 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 51 0 3 3 50 13 0 1 1 10
1971/72 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 3 5 8th 39 1 0 0 0 0
1972/73 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 41 0 7th 7th 69 17th 1 3 4th 13
1973/74 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 1 14th 15th 25th 6th 0 2 2 4th
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 79 3 9 12 65 10 0 2 2 10
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 66 1 11 12 50 13 2 0 2 8th
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 73 4th 11 15th 52 6th 0 1 1 6th
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 59 4th 6th 10 29 10 0 1 1 5
1978/79 Washington Capitals NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1979/80 Washington Capitals NHL 54 5 9 14th 16 - - - - -
1980/81 Washington Capitals NHL 50 3 7th 10 28 - - - - -
1981/82 Washington Capitals NHL 1 0 0 0 10 - - - - -
1981/82 Hershey Bears AHL 62 2 10 12 26th 5 0 0 0 6th
OHA total 102 14th 27 41 118 17th 2 2 4th 22nd
AHL total 196 13 39 52 182 18th 2 4th 6th 38
NHL overall 595 24 82 106 433 76 3 10 13 56

( 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. ↑ Pierre Bouchard. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed December 15, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Montreal Canadiens Legends: Pierre Bouchard. greatesthockeylegends.com, June 2007, accessed December 15, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bouchard, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouchard, Pierre Émile (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Longueuil ,