Simon Nolet

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CanadaCanada  Simon Nolet Ice hockey player
Date of birth September 23, 1941
place of birth Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne , Quebec , Canada
size 178 cm
Weight 83 kg
position Right wing
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1960–1962 Citadelles de Quebec
1962-1964 Windsor Maple Leafs
1964-1965 Castors de Sherbrooke
1965-1970 As de Québec
1968-1974 Philadelphia Flyers
1974-1976 Kansas City Scouts
1976 Pittsburgh Penguins
1976-1977 Colorado Rockies

Simon Laurent Nolet (born September 23, 1941 in Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player , coach and scout , who in the course of his active career between and 1977 among other things 596 games for the Philadelphia Flyers , Kansas City Scouts , Pittsburgh Penguins and Colorado Rockies played in the National Hockey League on the right winger position . The two-time All-Star celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Philadelphia Flyers, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in 1974 . After the end of his career, he worked briefly as a coach for various teams and from 1990 for over 25 years as a scout for his former team from Philadelphia.

Career

Nolet spent his junior years from 1960 first in his home province of Québec with the Citadelles de Québec in the Ligue de hockey junior du Québec . At the end of the 1961/62 season , the striker made his professional debut when he ran up for the As de Québec in the American Hockey League . In the summer of 1962, the French-Canadian then switched permanently to the professional sector. He joined the Windsor Maple Leafs from the province of Nova Scotia , for which he ran up for two years until 1964 in the Nova Scotia Senior Hockey League . In the meantime, he was also in the squad of league rivals Moncton Hawks .

From the summer of 1964, Nolet returned to Québec. In addition to other missions for the As de Québec, he led the Castors de Sherbrooke to win the Allan Cup . He then switched completely to the AHL to the As after the sporadic periods of deployment in previous years. The attacker spent two full seasons with the team before the franchise was bought out by the newly formed Philadelphia Flyers from the National Hockey League , whereby Nolet's transfer rights were also transferred to the expansion team. During the 1967/68 season , Nolet made his debut in four games for the Flyers, but continued to play mainly for the As de Québec, which he led to the final of the Calder Cup . There the team was subject to the Rochester Americans . For the French-Canadian, however, the game year ended in a conciliatory manner, as his 96 scorer points earned him the John B. Sollenberger Trophy and he was also appointed to the AHL Second All-Star Team . As a result, his stakes in the NHL increased. Over the following two seasons, his playing time was divided between Québec and Philadelphia.

It was not until the 1979/71 season that Nolet made the final leap into the NHL and he played for the Philadelphia Flyers for the next four years. There he was a steady point collector before he became obsolete when Reggie Leach was engaged in May 1974. He crowned his commitment by winning the Stanley Cup in the 1974 playoffs as part of the so-called " Broad Street Bullies " before he was left unprotected by the Flyers in the 1974 NHL Expansion Draft . Because of his experience in the league, he was selected by the newly formed Kansas City Scouts and immediately named their team captain. For the next almost two years he was an integral part of the team, before moving to the middle of the 1975/76 season in January 1976 together with Ed Gilbert and a first-round suffrage in the 1976 NHL Amateur Draft in exchange for Steve Durbano , Chuck Arnason and a First round suffrage of the same draft was given to the Pittsburgh Penguins .

For the Penguins, Nolet completed only 39 season games and three more in the playoffs. In September 1976 he was transferred to the Colorado Rockies - that's what the Kansas City Scouts called themselves after moving from Kansas City in the state of Missouri to Denver in the state of Colorado . With him also goalkeeper Michel Plasse moved to the Rockies and Colin Campbell was loaned from Pittsburgh for the 1976/77 season. This was the compensation payable to the Rockies after the Penguins signed free agent Denis Herron the previous month. In the Colorado Rockies, Nolet was immediately reappointed team captain. He held this position until the end of his career in the summer of 1977, when he retired from active sport at the age of 35.

As a result, Nolet took a longer break and did not return to the public until 1982. For the following five seasons up to the summer of 1987 he worked as an assistant coach of the Nordiques de Québec under head coach Michel Bergeron . During the 1987/88 season he was then appointed head coach of the Fredericton Express farm team from the AHL, replacing Ron Lapointe , who had been promoted to head coach of the Nordiques. With the Express he reached the final of the Calder Cup, but his engagement was not continued. After a two-year hiatus, his ex-team Philadelphia Flyers finally signed him as a scout for the amateur sector. Nolet held this post for a total of 28 years until the end of the 2017/18 season .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1960/61 Citadelles de Quebec LHJQ 11 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1961/62 Citadelles de Quebec LHJQ 39 25th 27 52 22nd 10 4th 4th 8th 12
1961/62 As de Québec AHL 1 0 0 0 2 - - - - -
1962 Citadelles de Quebec Memorial Cup 9 2 4th 6th 2
1962/63 Windsor Maple Leafs NSSHL 55 53 55 108 30th 7th 5 6th 11 14th
1962/63 Moncton Hawks NSSHL - - - - - 12 4th 5 9 2
1963/64 Windsor Maple Leafs NSSHL 68 68 65 133 19th 8th 2 6th 8th 4th
1964 Windsor Maple Leafs Allan Cup 11 10 8th 18th 8th
1964/65 As de Québec AHL 2 2 1 3 2 - - - - -
1965 Castors de Sherbrooke Allan Cup 15th 21st 14th 35 4th
1965/66 As de Québec AHL 61 16 17th 33 12 6th 0 0 0 2
1966/67 As de Québec AHL 66 32 24 56 28 5 1 4th 5 4th
1967/68 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 4th 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 0 0
1967/68 As de Québec AHL 70 44 52 96 45 10 5 10 15th 10
1968/69 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 35 4th 10 14th 8th - - - - -
1968/69 As de Québec AHL 33 11 21st 32 28 15th 5 3 8th 28
1969/70 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 56 22nd 22nd 44 36 - - - - -
1969/70 As de Québec AHL 22nd 13 18th 31 14th - - - - -
1970/71 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 74 9 19th 28 42 4th 2 1 3 0
1971/72 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 67 23 20th 43 22nd - - - - -
1972/73 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 70 16 20th 36 6th 11 3 1 4th 4th
1973/74 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 52 19th 17th 36 13 15th 1 1 2 4th
1974/75 Kansas City Scouts NHL 72 26th 32 58 30th - - - - -
1975/76 Kansas City Scouts NHL 41 10 15th 25th 16 - - - - -
1975/76 Pittsburgh Penguins NHL 39 9 8th 17th 2 3 0 0 0 0
1976/77 Colorado Rockies NHL 52 12 19th 31 10 - - - - -
LHJQ total 50 27 28 55 22nd 10 4th 4th 8th 12
NSSHL overall 123 121 120 241 49 27 11 17th 28 20th
AHL total 255 118 133 251 131 36 11 17th 28 44
NHL overall 562 150 182 332 187 34 6th 3 9 8th

( 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 Nolet, Simon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nolet, Simon Laurent (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player, coach and scout
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Odilon-de-Cranbourne , Quebec