Pierre Plante

Pierre Plante
Date of birth	May 14, 1951
place of birth	Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , Quebec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	82 kg
position	Right wing
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft	1971 , 1st round, 9th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1968-1971	Rangers de Drummondville
1971-1973	Philadelphia Flyers Richmond Robins
1973-1977	St. Louis Blues
1977-1988	Chicago Black Hawks
1978-1979	New York Rangers
1979-1980	Nordiques de Québec

Pierre Renald Plante (born May 14, 1951 in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 632 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , St. Louis Blues , Chicago Black during his playing career between 1968 and 1980 Hawks , New York Rangers and Nordiques de Québec played in the National Hockey League on the position of right winger .

Career

Plante spent his junior years between 1968 and 1971 with the Rangers de Drummondville in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , where he developed over the years into a balanced player with an offensive sense of the game and physical play on the defensive. In the 1969/70 season he collected 102 scorer points and was elected to the league's First All-Star team - although he was not among the top ten scorers in the league. In the summer of 1971, the winger was selected in the first round in the NHL Amateur Draft 1971 in ninth overall position by the Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League .

Planned in the jersey of the St. Louis Blues

For the 1971/72 season , Plante finally switched to the professional field, where he did not succeed in the following year and a half to establish himself permanently in the NHL squad in Philadelphia. So he came again and again to the Richmond Robins in the American Hockey League , the Flyers farm team . In December 1972 they transferred him to the St. Louis Blues with Brent Hughes , while André Dupont and a third-round suffrage in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft went to Philadelphia. In St. Louis, Plante finally achieved the breakthrough and he was the unrestricted regular player of the Blues for the following four and a half seasons. Twice - in the 1973/74 and 1974/75 seasons  - he scored over 25 goals and 50 points scorer in one season. As a result, the winger's point yields decreased, so that he had become dispensable at the end of the 1976/77 season . Other players had now taken his place on the offensive. The Blues therefore transferred him to the Chicago Black Hawks in August 1977 in exchange for Dick Redmond .

With the move to Chicago, unsteady years began for Plante. Although he was used in 77 games, he only collected 28 points and therefore did not meet the expectations placed on him. A few days before his 27th birthday, he was therefore handed over from Chicago to the Minnesota North Stars in May 1978 . With that, the Black Hawks made up for a transfer that had been completed two months earlier and received Doug Hicks from the North Stars. However, the Canadian did not play a single game for Minnesota. Even before the start of the 1978/79 game year , Plante was put on the waiver list in September 1978 . There he was selected by the Detroit Red Wings , who did the same in October and Plante was part of the New York Rangers ' squad at the start of the season. In the Rangers, Plantes offensive skills were less in demand, and he could therefore devote himself to his defensive game. Still, he collected 31 points and was ultimately one of the key players responsible for New York reaching the finals of the 1979 Stanley Cup Playoffs . There they were subject to the Canadiens de Montréal .

Despite the success, the attacker's time in the “ Big Apple ” came to an end in June 1979. Since he was not protected by his team, the Nordiques de Québec , who had been accepted into the National Hockey League for the 1979/80 season , selected him in the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft . Plante completed his last NHL season there near his hometown. He ended his active career in the summer of 1980 at the age of 29.

Achievements and Awards

• 1970 LHJMQ First All-Star Team

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1968/69	Rangers de Drummondville	LHJQ		44	11	13	24	35		10	2	10	12	12
1969/70	Rangers de Drummondville	LHJMQ		51	51	51	102	186		1	1	0	1	7th
1970/71	Rangers de Drummondville	LHJMQ		58	38	50	88	251		6th	2	9	11	14th
1971/72	Richmond Robins	AHL		47	10	17th	27	51		-	-	-	-	-
1971/72	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		24	1	0	1	15th		-	-	-	-	-
1972/73	Richmond Robins	AHL		30th	9	11	20th	56		-	-	-	-	-
1972/73	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		2	0	3	3	0		-	-	-	-	-
1972/73	St. Louis Blues	NHL		49	12	13	25th	56		5	2	0	2	15th
1973/74	St. Louis Blues	NHL		78	26th	28	54	85		-	-	-	-	-
1974/75	St. Louis Blues	NHL		80	34	32	66	125		2	0	0	0	8th
1975/76	St. Louis Blues	NHL		74	14th	19th	33	77		3	0	0	0	6th
1976/77	St. Louis Blues	NHL		76	18th	20th	38	77		4th	0	0	0	2
1977/78	Chicago Black Hawks	NHL		77	10	18th	28	59		1	0	0	0	0
1978/79	New York Rangers	NHL		70	6th	25th	31	37		18th	0	6th	6th	20th
1979/80	Syracuse Firebirds	AHL		3	0	0	0	2		-	-	-	-	-
1979/80	Nordiques de Québec	NHL		69	4th	14th	18th	68		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				109	89	101	190	437		7th	3	9	12	21st
AHL total				80	19th	28	47	109		-	-	-	-	-
NHL overall				599	125	172	297	599		33	2	6th	8th	51

( 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

Commons : Pierre Plante  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pierre Plante at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Pierre Plante at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nathaniel Oliver: Pierre Plante: A Forgotten First-Rounder. thehockeywriters.com, May 15, 2018, accessed September 19, 2018 .