Simon Gamache

Simon Gamache
Date of birth	3rd January 1981
place of birth	Thetford Mines , Quebec , Canada
size	177 cm
Weight	76 kg
position	striker
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2000 , 9th round, 290th position Atlanta Thrashers
Career stations
1998-2001	Foreurs de Val-d'Or
2001-2002	Chicago Wolves Greenville Grrrowl
2002-2003	Chicago Wolves
2003-2006	Milwaukee Admirals
2005-2006	Nashville Predators St. Louis Blues
2006-2007	SC Bern
2007-2008	Toronto Maple Leafs Toronto Marlies
2008-2011	SC Bern
2011-2013	Friborg-Gottéron
2013-2014	Adler Mannheim
2014	Isothermic de Thetford Mines
2014-2015	Vålerenga ishockey
2015-2016	Vienna Capitals
2015-2017	Thetford Mines Assurancia

Simon Gamache (born January 3, 1981 in Thetford Mines , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who is under contract with Thetford Mines Assurancia in the LNAH . He previously played for the Atlanta Thrashers , Nashville Predators , St. Louis Blues and Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey League .

Career

Simon Gamache (right) in the SC Bern jersey

Simon Gamache began his career with the Foreurs de Val-d'Or in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), with whom he reached the 2001 Memorial Cup final, which was lost to the Red Deer Rebels . Gamache was named CHL Player of the Year , won the Michel Brière trophy for the player with the most points and the Guy Lafleur trophy . In the 2000 NHL Entry Draft , the Canadian was selected in the ninth round in 290th place by the Atlanta Thrashers .

His first professional season he spent half with the Greenville Grrrowl in the East Coast Hockey League , he was also used in 26 games with the Chicago Wolves in the American Hockey League . In the following season 2002/03 he was a permanent member of the Wolves squad and was appointed twice to the NHL roster of the Atlanta Thrashers.

In the 2003/04 season he played two games for the Thrashers, but was then transferred to the Nashville Predators in December 2003 together with Kirill Safronow in exchange for Ben Simon and Tomáš Klouček . However, he was only used in seven games with the Predators, instead he won the Calder Cup with the Milwaukee Admirals , scoring six goals and 18 assists in 22 play-off games . During the lockout - 2004/05 season , playing as many NHL players in the AHL, Simon Gamache reached 96 points scorer in 87 games - in the playoffs he scored six goals in seven games. At the beginning of the following season he was again not in the squad of the Predators, but continued to play in Milwaukee. At the end of November 2005, Gamache was signed by the St. Louis Blues after the Predators had put him on the waiver list.

For the 2006/07 season , Simon Gamache moved to the National League A at SC Bern , where he became a key player and top scorer (82 scorer points in 60 games), but failed in the playoff final at HC Davos . Because of the performance shown, he got an offer from the Toronto Maple Leafs and signed a two-year contract in June 2007. His first goal for the Leafs he scored on October 11, 2007 against the New York Islanders , but completed only eleven NHL games and otherwise played for the farm team, the Toronto Marlies , in the AHL.

On January 5, 2008, Gamache was added to the Maple Leafs' waiver list. A short time later he moved back to Bern and was awarded a three-year contract by SC Bern. In the 2009/10 season he won the Swiss championship with the Bernese . In February 2011, Gamache signed a two-year contract with Friborg-Gottéron , valid from the 2011/12 season. In September 2013 he was signed by Adler Mannheim , but returned to North America after a season and in October 2014 he joined the Isothermic de Thetford Mines from his hometown in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey . In November 2014 he moved to Europe again, so Gamache decided to work with the Norwegian first division club Vålerenga Ishockey . In the 2015/16 season he played for the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian ice hockey league .

Achievements and Awards

2000 CHL Second All-Star Team 2000 Plaque joueur humanitaire 2000 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2000 CHL Humanitarian of the Year 2001 Coupe du Président -Win with the Foreurs de Val-d'Or 2001 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2001 CHL Player of the Year 2001 CHL Top Scorer Award 2001 CHL Plus / Minus Award 2001 CHL First All-Star Team 2001 Michel Brière Trophy 2001 Trophée Jean Béliveau 2001 Plaque AutoPro 2001 LHJMQ Offensive Player of the Year

2001 Guy Lafleur Trophy 2001 Paul Dumont Trophy 2001 Ed Chynoweth Trophy 2001 Memorial Cup All-Star Team 2002 Kelly Cup win with the Greenville Grrrowl 2002 ECHL All-Rookie Team 2002 Kelly Cup Playoffs Most Valuable Player (together with Tyrone Garner ) 2004 Calder Cup win with the Milwaukee Admirals 2005 AHL All-Star Classic 2005 AHL First All-Star Team 2007 Best assists in the National League A 2007 PostFinance Top Scorer 2010 Swiss champion with SC Bern

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1998/99	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		70	19th	43	62	54		4th	1	1	2	2
1999/00	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		72	64	79	143	74		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Foreurs de Val-d'Or	LHJMQ		72	74	110	184	70		21st	22nd	35	57	18th
2001/02	Greenville Grrrowl	ECHL		31	19th	19th	38	35		17th	15th	9	24	22nd
2001/02	Chicago Wolves	AHL		26th	2	4th	6th	11		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		2	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2002/03	Chicago Wolves	AHL		76	35	42	77	37		8th	7th	2	9	4th
2003/04	Atlanta Thrashers	NHL		2	0	1	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Nashville Predators	NHL		7th	1	0	1	0		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Chicago Wolves	AHL		16	5	6th	11	4th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		52	18th	27	45	26th		22nd	6th	18th	24	14th
2004/05	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		80	29	57	86	93		7th	6th	4th	10	18th
2005/06	Nashville Predators	NHL		11	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	St. Louis Blues	NHL		15th	3	4th	7th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Milwaukee Admirals	AHL		39	18th	18th	36	46		21st	12	16	28	22nd
2006/07	SC Bern	NLA		44	20th	46	66	40		16	7th	9	16	10
2007/08	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL		11	2	2	4th	6th		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	Toronto Marlies	AHL		17th	4th	3	7th	10		-	-	-	-	-
2007/08	SC Bern	NLA		13	3	14th	17th	4th		4th	0	1	1	2
2008/09	SC Bern	NLA		48	18th	35	53	55		4th	0	1	1	39
2009/10	SC Bern	NLA		30th	9	13	22nd	16		10	6th	4th	10	8th
2010/11	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		7th	4th	7th	11	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	SC Bern	NLA		26th	7th	18th	25th	16		7th	4th	2	6th	8th
2011/12	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		50	20th	24	44	42		11	3	2	5	8th
2012/13	Friborg-Gottéron	NLA		45	15th	23	38	32		18th	10	4th	14th	4th
2013/14	Adler Mannheim	DEL		46	10	23	33	18th		5	1	2	3	2
2014/15	Isothermic de Thetford Mines	LNAH		13	5	12	17th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Vålerenga ishockey	GET leagues		19th	8th	16	24	10		10	5	7th	12	6th
NHL overall				48	6th	7th	13	16		-	-	-	-	-
AHL total				306	111	157	268	227		58	31	40	71	58
NLA total				263	96	180	276	213		70	30th	23	53	79
DEL total				46	10	23	33	18th		5	1	2	3	2

( 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 : Simon Gamache  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Simon Gamache at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Simon Gamache at eurohockey.com
• Simon Gamache at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cbc.ca, Simon Gamache returns to NHL with Maple Leafs
2. ↑ eishockey.ch, Gamache returns to SC Bern
3. ↑ eishockey-24.de Adler Mannheim get NLA striker Simon Gamache ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ isothermic.lnah.com Simon Gamache avec l'Isothermic pour le match d'ouverture ( Memento of the original of March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ vif-hockey.no Gamache til Vålerenga ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.