Pierre Mondou

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CanadaCanada  Pierre Mondou Ice hockey player
Date of birth November 27, 1955
place of birth Sorel , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 84 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1975 , 1st lap, 15th position
Canadiens de Montréal
WHA Amateur Draft 1975 , 1st lap, 14th position
Nordiques de Québec
Career stations
1972-1974 Éperviers de Sorel
1974-1975 Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal
1975-1977 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1977-1985 Canadiens de Montréal

Joseph Julien Claude Pierre Mondou (born November 27, 1955 in Sorel , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach and current scout , who played 617 games for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League on the position of the right winger . During his eight seasons in the NHL, Mondou won the Stanley Cup three times in a row with the Canadiens de Montréal between 1977 and 1979 . After the end of his career, he worked as a scout in the league - initially from 1988 for 15 years with his ex-team in Montréal, since 2003 with the New Jersey Devils . His son Benoît was also a professional ice hockey player and a Boston Bruins draft election .

Career

Mondou spent his junior years between 1972 and 1975 with the Éperviers de Sorel from his hometown in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . There the striker played into the first third of the 1974/75 season before moving to the Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal within the league . During his three seasons in the LHJMQ, the offensively misted player collected 348 scorer points in a total of 213 games . Including a year with 119 points in the 1973/74 season . After Mondou was appointed to the Second All-Star Team of the Franco-Canadian Junior League at the end of the game year 1974/75, he was in both the NHL Amateur Draft 1975 and the WHA Amateur Draft 1975 for the franchises of the National Hockey League and the NHL competing World Hockey Association for election. Eventually, he was selected in the first round of both drafts. In the NHL, the Canadiens de Montréal secured their rights in 15th place, in the WHA with the Nordiques de Québec in 14th position, a Franco-Canadian team also secured the rights to the talent.

The attacker decided as a result of the draft to sign a contract with the Canadiens, where he first gained professional experience in the Nova Scotia Voyageurs farm team in the American Hockey League . In his rookie season , Mondou collected 77 points in 74 appearances, which earned him the Dudley “Red” Garrett Memorial Award as the best newcomer to the league . He shared this with Greg Holst of the Providence Reds . In the same game year he won the championship of the AHL in the form of the Calder Cup with the Voyageurs . The team repeated the success in the following season, while he was the top scorer of the AHL with 44 goals in 71 games played a significant role. In the course of the playoffs he let another eight follow in twelve missions. Finally, he made his debut in the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1977 for the Habs in the final series for the trophy of the same name , which he won for the first time. He was also appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team .

At the beginning of the 1977/78 season, Mondou was firmly in the Montréals squad, to which he belonged for the following eight years until the summer of 1985. During this period he played three seasons with at least 30 goals and scored more than 65 points four times. He won other Stanley Cups with the team in 1978 and 1979 . However, injuries threw the striker back again and again, so that he was out in the game years 1980/81 and 1983/84 significant time. Still, Mondou was a key player in rebuilding the team after the team's dominance was broken by the New York Islanders in the early 1980s .

Mondou's active career finally came to an early end during his eighth NHL season. In March 1985, during a game against the Hartford Whalers , Mondou scored the decisive goal for the Habs in overtime , but his Swedish opponent Ulf Samuelsson hit him in the left eye with his bat. As a result of the injury, the 29-year-old had to end his career prematurely and did not play another NHL game. After his career ended, Mondou immediately started working as a coach. He returned to his junior club, which had since moved to Granby , and worked there for the Bisons de Granby in the LHJMQ as an assistant coach for the following three years. In the summer of 1988 he returned to the Canadiens de Montréal, where he was employed as a scout until 2003 and was able to celebrate another Stanley Cup triumph at the end of the Stanley Cup playoffs in 1993 . Since 2003 he has been a scout for league rivals New Jersey Devils .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1972/73 Éperviers de Sorel LHJMQ 64 37 43 80 57 10 6th 4th 10 12
1973/74 Éperviers de Sorel LHJMQ 60 62 57 119 102 2 0 0 0 0
1974/75 Éperviers de Sorel LHJMQ 28 16 23 39 13 - - - - -
1974/75 Bleu-Blanc-Rouge de Montréal LHJMQ 40 40 47 87 23 9 8th 5 13 13
1975/76 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 74 34 43 77 30th 9 1 5 6th 4th
1976/77 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 71 44 45 89 21st 12 8th 11 19th 6th
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL - - - - - 4th 0 0 0 0
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 19th 30th 49 8th 15th 3 7th 10 4th
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 31 41 72 26th 16 3 6th 9 4th
1979/80 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 75 30th 36 66 12 4th 1 4th 5 4th
1980/81 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 57 17th 24 41 16 3 0 1 1 0
1981/82 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 73 35 33 68 57 5 2 5 7th 8th
1982/83 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 76 29 37 66 31 3 0 1 1 2
1983/84 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 52 15th 22nd 37 8th 14th 6th 3 9 2
1984/85 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 67 18th 39 57 21st 5 2 1 3 2
LHJMQ total 192 155 170 325 195 21st 14th 9 23 25th
AHL total 145 78 88 166 51 21st 9 16 25th 10
NHL overall 548 194 262 456 179 69 17th 28 45 26th

( 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. ↑ Joe Pelletier: Montreal Canadiens Legends: Pierre Mondou. greatesthockeylegends.com, July 2013, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Pierre Mondou. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed January 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Mondou, Pierre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mondou, Joseph Julien Claude Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
DATE OF BIRTH November 27, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Sorel , Quebec