Rich Lemieux

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CanadaCanada  Rich Lemieux Ice hockey player
Date of birth April 19, 1951
place of birth Témiscaming , Québec , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 70 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1971 , 3rd lap, 39th position
Vancouver Canucks
Career stations
1968-1971 Canadien junior de Montréal
1971-1972 Rochester Americans
1972-1974 Vancouver Canucks
1974-1975 Kansas City Scouts
1975-1976 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1976-1977 Calgary cowboys

Richard Bernard "Rich" Lemieux (born April 19, 1951 in Témiscaming , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 276 games for the Vancouver Canucks , Kansas City Scouts and Atlanta Flames in the course of his active career between 1968 and 1977 National Hockey League (NHL) and 33 others for the Calgary Cowboys in the World Hockey Association (WHA) on the position of the center . Lemieux celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs when he won the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1976.

Career

Lemieux spent an extremely successful junior period between 1968 and 1971 in the service of the Canadien junior de Montréal , who at that time belonged to the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA). In his first two years, the striker won with the team the double from the J. Ross Robertson Cup of the OHA and the Memorial Cup of the Canadian Hockey League . Lemieux played a key role in all of the title wins, despite the top-class squad that was made up of numerous professional players. However, the 1970/71 season was less satisfactory for him when he initially failed between November 1970 and March 1971 due to a knee injury and suffered a broken hand in the subsequent playoffs, which again forced him to take a break. This also influenced his election in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1971 by the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League (NHL), who only selected him in the third round with the 39th right to vote. He was next to Jocelyn Guèvremont and Bobby Lalonde one of three players in the Junior Canadiens who had been drawn by the Canucks in one of the first three draft rounds.

The Canucks then equipped the attacker with a professional contract in August 1971 and used him in the first half of the 1971/72 season in their farm team , the Rochester Americans , in the American Hockey League (AHL). After the Canadian had convinced there with 24 scorer points in 34 missions, the Canucks brought him into the NHL squad in January 1972, where he subsequently got stuck. In his first full NHL season, Lemieux formed a storm row with Don Lever and Bobby Lalonde , which gave him a career high of 52 points at the end of the season. In the following game year 1973/74 Lemieux's offensive production decreased rapidly with 22 points, so that he was left unprotected by the Canucks in the NHL Expansion Draft 1974 and was finally selected by the newly formed Kansas City Scouts .

Kansas City's Team Lemieux played in the 1974-75 season with 30 scorer points a solid part, but was nevertheless shortly after the start of the following season along with a second-round vote in the NHL Amateur Draft in 1977 in exchange for Buster Harvey to the Atlanta Flames issued . There, however, the offensive player did not succeed in recommending himself to the NHL squad. He played in addition to two season games for Kansas City only one more game for the Atlanta Flames in the regular season and two in the playoffs. Otherwise, the French-Canadian spent the season on loan with the Canadiens de Montréal farm team , the Nova Scotia Voyageurs from the AHL. With the Voyageurs he won the Calder Cup at the end of the season . With eight goals he was the top scorer in the playoffs and his 14 scorer points put him in second place in the scorer ranking behind teammate Guy Chouinard .

With little chance of permanent stay in the NHL, the 25-year-old moved in June 1976 as a free agent to the World Hockey Association (WHA), which competed with the NHL . There he signed a contract with the Calgary Cowboys , which became possible after the previous holder of his transfer rights for the WHA, the franchise of the Michigan Stags / Baltimore Blades , had ceased operations. For the Cowboys, the center forward completed 33 games by January 1977. When he was supposed to be handed over to the bankrupt Minnesota Fighting Saints in exchange for Butch Deadmarsh , Lemieux refused the transfer, which then did not materialize. As a result, Lemieux ended his active career immediately.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1968/69 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 51 10 28 38 51 14th 6th 12 18th 6th
1969 Canadien junior de Montréal Memorial Cup 8th 2 7th 9 17th
1969/70 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 50 29 43 72 75 16 10 16 26th 6th
1970 Canadien junior de Montréal Memorial Cup 12 12 15th 27 24
1970/71 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 15th 11 23 34 35 4th 2 6th 8th 5
1971/72 Rochester Americans AHL 34 12 12 24 30th - - - - -
1971/72 Vancouver Canucks NHL 42 7th 9 16 4th - - - - -
1972/73 Vancouver Canucks NHL 78 17th 35 52 41 - - - - -
1973/74 Vancouver Canucks NHL 72 5 17th 22nd 23 - - - - -
1974/75 Kansas City Scouts NHL 79 10 20th 30th 64 - - - - -
1975/76 Kansas City Scouts NHL 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1975/76 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 60 25th 23 48 37 9 8th 6th 14th 4th
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 0
1976/77 Calgary cowboys WHA 33 6th 11 17th 9 - - - - -
OHA total 116 50 94 144 161 34 18th 34 52 17th
AHL total 94 37 35 72 67 9 8th 6th 14th 4th
NHL overall 274 39 82 121 132 2 0 0 0 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Lemieux, Rich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lemieux, Richard Bernard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Témiscaming , Québec , Canada