Bobby Lalonde
Date of birth | March 27, 1951 |
place of birth | Montreal , Quebec , Canada |
size | 165 cm |
Weight | 70 kg |
position | center |
Shot hand | Left |
Draft | |
NHL Amateur Draft |
1971 , 2nd round, 17th position Vancouver Canucks |
Career stations | |
1968-1971 | Canadien junior de Montréal |
1971-1977 | Vancouver Canucks |
1977-1979 | Atlanta Flames |
1979-1981 | Boston Bruins |
1981 | Oklahoma City Stars |
1981-1982 | HC Davos |
Robert Patrick "Bobby" Lalonde (born March 27, 1951 in Montreal , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player who played 657 games for the Vancouver Canucks , Atlanta Flames , Boston Bruins and Calgary Flames in the course of his active career between 1968 and 1982 in the National Hockey League (NHL) on the position of the center . At 165 cm tall, Lalonde was the smallest NHL professional during his playing days.
Career
Lalonde spent an extremely successful junior period between 1968 and 1971 in the service of the Canadien junior de Montréal , who at that time were members of 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 . Lalonde was significantly involved in all of the title wins, despite the top-class squad, which was made up of numerous professional players. His best year in the league, however, was in the untitled 1970/71 season, when he collected a total of 148 scorer points in 72 games . This also influenced his election in the NHL Amateur Draft 1971 by the Vancouver Canucks from the National Hockey League (NHL), who selected him in the second round with the 17th right to vote. He was next to Jocelyn Guèvremont and Rich Lemieux one of three players in the Junior Canadiens who had been drawn by the Canucks in one of the first three draft rounds.
The only 165 cm tall striker spent his first season in the professional field both in the NHL squad of the Canucks and in the roster of the Rochester Americans farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL). With the start of the 1972/73 season , Lalonde was a regular in Vancouver and collected 47 points as a rookie . The following game year was marked by a protracted injury. A fracture of the ankle and an additional torn ligament caused him to fail between November 1973 and February 1974, so that he had only accrued 36 times at the end of the season. In addition, he only achieved seven goal participations. Recovered, Lalonde spent three more successful years in Vancouver, in which he once equaled his career record of 47 points and improved it again in the 1975/76 season with 50 points scored. Nevertheless, the time of the offensive player with the Canucks ended after the game year 1976/77 . Due to an oversupply on the center forward position, the management of Vancouver did not extend the expiring contract.
Lalonde then signed a contract with the Atlanta Flames as a free agent in September 1977 . He stayed there for two seasons and improved his annual point yield in the 1978/79 season by six points to 56. Nevertheless, he remained unprotected by management in the upcoming 1979 NHL expansion draft . Following the temporary election by the Hartford Whalers , he was told by the Flames in exchange for Rick Hodgson retrieved immediately before him at the beginning of the following 1979-80 season in exchange for a fourth-round vote in the 1982 NHL Entry Draft to the Boston Bruins transferred . The Canadian played in Boston until the end of the 1980/81 season . He then became a free agent again and so once again joined the Flames franchise , which had since moved to Calgary , Canada and played there under the name Calgary Flames .
In the service of the Calgary Flames, the 30-year-old was unable to assert himself in the NHL, and with the exception of one NHL game for Calgary, he played for their cooperation partner Oklahoma City Stars in the Central Hockey League (CHL). Dissatisfied with his situation, however, he left the team before the end of the calendar year and moved to Europe. There he went on the ice for the traditional Swiss club HC Davos in the National League A (NLA) until the end of the season . With 55 scorer points in 27 season operations, the attacker played a key role in reaching the runner-up. He then ended his active career at the age of 31.
Achievements and Awards
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Career statistics
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season | team | league | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | Sp | T | V | Pt | SM | ||
1968/69 | Canadien junior de Montréal | OHA | 54 | 17th | 27 | 44 | 18th | 13 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 0 | ||
1969 | Canadien junior de Montréal | Memorial Cup | 8th | 4th | 4th | 8th | 17th | |||||||
1969/70 | Canadien junior de Montréal | OHA | 54 | 42 | 42 | 84 | 73 | 16 | 6th | 10 | 16 | 17th | ||
1970 | Canadien junior de Montréal | Memorial Cup | 12 | 6th | 19th | 25th | 19th | |||||||
1970/71 | Canadien junior de Montréal | OHA | 61 | 59 | 68 | 127 | 71 | 11 | 8th | 13 | 21st | 35 | ||
1971/72 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 27 | 1 | 5 | 6th | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1971/72 | Rochester Americans | AHL | 42 | 14th | 11 | 25th | 19th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1972/73 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 77 | 20th | 27 | 47 | 32 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1973/74 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 36 | 3 | 4th | 7th | 18th | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1974/75 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 74 | 17th | 30th | 47 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
1975/76 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 71 | 14th | 36 | 50 | 46 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
1975/76 | Tulsa Oilers | CHL | 4th | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1976/77 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 68 | 17th | 15th | 32 | 39 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1976/77 | Tulsa Oilers | CHL | 7th | 2 | 2 | 4th | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1977/78 | Atlanta Flames | NHL | 73 | 14th | 23 | 37 | 28 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
1978/79 | Atlanta Flames | NHL | 78 | 24 | 32 | 56 | 24 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||
1979/80 | Atlanta Flames | NHL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1979/80 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 71 | 10 | 25th | 35 | 28 | 4th | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||
1980/81 | Boston Bruins | NHL | 62 | 4th | 12 | 16 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | ||
1981/82 | Calgary Flames | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1981/82 | Oklahoma City Stars | CHL | 19th | 6th | 11 | 17th | 36 | - | - | - | - | - | ||
1981/82 | HC Davos | NLA | 27 | 21st | 34 | 55 | ||||||||
OHA total | 169 | 118 | 137 | 255 | 162 | 40 | 14th | 28 | 42 | 52 | ||||
CHL total | 30th | 11 | 15th | 26th | 38 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
NHL overall | 641 | 124 | 210 | 334 | 298 | 16 | 4th | 2 | 6th | 6th |
( 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
- Bobby Lalonde at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from September 8, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- Bobby Lalonde at eliteprospects.com (English)
- Bobby Lalonde at hockeydraftcentral.com
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Lalonde, Bobby |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lalonde, Robert Patrick (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian ice hockey player |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1951 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Montreal , Quebec , Canada |