Bobby Lalonde

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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

  • 1970 Memorial Cup win with the Canadien junior de Montréal
  • 1982 Swiss runner-up with HC Davos

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 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 )

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personal data
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