Stéphan Lebeau

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Stéphan Lebeau
Date of birth February 28, 1968
place of birth Saint-Jérôme , Quebec , Canada
size 176 cm
Weight 80 kg
position center
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1984-1988 Cataractes de Shawinigan
1988-1989 Canadiens de Sherbrooke
1989-1994 Canadiens de Montréal
1994-1995 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim
1995-1997 HC Lugano
1997-1999 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
1999-2001 HC Ambrì-Piotta

Stéphan Armand Lebeau (born February 28, 1968 in Saint-Jérôme , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach who played 403 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim between 1984 and 2001 has contested in the National Hockey League on the position of the center . In the service of the Canadiens de Montréal, Lebeau won the Stanley Cup in 1993 and thus celebrated his greatest career success. His younger brother Patrick was also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Lebeau spent an extremely successful junior career between 1984 and 1988 with the Cataractes de Shawinigan in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . During his four seasons in the league, two of which he finished as the top scorer, Lebeau collected a total of 650 scorer points in 309 missions . Although his immense offensive production, however, he went unnoticed in the NHL Entry Draft by the franchises of the National Hockey League . However, this did not prevent him from completing the 1987/88 season as the best goalscorer and at the same time the fairest player in sport, which was honored with the Frank J. Selke trophy .

In the summer of 1988, the 20-year-old free agent was signed by the NHL club in his home province, the Canadiens de Montréal . This put the talent in the 1988/89 season in their farm team , the Canadiens de Sherbrooke , in the American Hockey League . There the center forward formed an attacking duo with the same age Benoît Brunet , who also went into his first professional season. Both made it with well over 100 points among the top three players in the scorer ranking and were thus primarily responsible for Sherbrooke finishing the regular season as the team with the highest points. Nevertheless, the team was eliminated in the first round of the playoffs . Lebeau himself was the top scorer and goalscorer in the league with 134 points and 70 hits. This earned him the John B. Sollenberger Trophy and the Willie Marshall Award . He was also awarded the Les Cunningham Award for Most Valuable Player and the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award for Best Rookie . Together with Brunet, he was also appointed to the AHL First All-Star Team . During the season, the French-Canadian also made his debut for Montréal in the NHL.

With the beginning of the game year 1989/90 , the attacker was finally firmly in the Canadiens' NHL squad. There he was able to establish himself in the following four seasons and collected 80 scorer points in the 1992/93 season , placing him in fourth place within the team. However, the year was crowned by winning the Stanley Cup at the end of the playoffs in 1993 . When Lebeau's offensive statistics fell drastically in the first half of the 1993/94 season - he only scored 16 times in 34 appearances - the Canadiens parted ways with their striker and exchanged him for goalkeeper Ron Tugnutt of the Mighty Ducks of in February 1994 Anaheim one. The Canadian spent one and a half seasons there until the summer of 1995 without being able to return to his 80-point season.

After his contract in Anaheim expired, Lebeau moved to Europe , where his younger brother Patrick had played in the Swiss National League A since the preseason . He himself signed a contract with HC Lugano , for which he went on the ice for the next two years until the summer of 1997. For the 1997/98 season , the two Lebeau brothers moved within the NLA to HC La Chaux-de-Fonds and were thus active in the same team for the first time since their junior days in Shawinigan. Although the two Canadians made it into the top five scorers in the league at the end of the season, they could not prevent the team from relegating to National League B. While Patrick left the team, Stéphan went into the second division, but missed direct promotion with the team in the following year. Together with Patrick, who in the meantime had played for the Pittsburgh Penguins in the NHL, Lebeau moved back to the reigning Continental Cup winner HC Ambrì-Piotta in the National League A. The Lebeaus had a successful year with the team. They won the international double from the Super Cup and Continental Cup with the team , which they successfully defended. Stéphan Lebeau was also the best scorer in the Swiss elite class with 67 points, followed by his brother in second place with 63 points. After the 2000/01 season , which he had also spent in Ambrì - but without his brother - he ended his active career at the age of 33.

Following his time as an active player, Lebeau switched to the coaching business after a three-year break. For the 2004/05 season he took over the post of head coach at the Tigres de Victoriaville from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec for two seasons . He then supervised the Cantonniers de Magog in a lower class junior league in the province of Québec for two years , followed by a five-year commitment at the Bishop's College School in Sherbrooke . For the 2013/14 season returned Lebeau turned professional business back and spent two years as assistant coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs of the American Hockey League, the former farm team of the Montreal Canadiens. There he worked under his former Canadiens teammate Sylvain Lefebvre . Since the 2015/16 season he has been the head coach of the ice hockey team at the Champlain Collège Lennoxville in Sherbrooke.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Cataractes de Shawinigan LHJMQ 66 41 38 79 18th 9 4th 5 9 4th
1985/86 Cataractes de Shawinigan LHJMQ 72 69 77 146 22nd 5 4th 2 6th 4th
1986/87 Cataractes de Shawinigan LHJMQ 65 77 90 167 60 14th 9 20th 29 20th
1987/88 Cataractes de Shawinigan LHJMQ 67 94 94 188 66 11 17th 9 26th 10
1987/88 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL - - - - - 1 0 1 1 0
1988/89 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL 78 70 64 134 47 6th 1 4th 5 8th
1988/89 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 1 0 1 1 2 - - - - -
1989/90 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 57 15th 20th 35 11 2 3 0 3 0
1990/91 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 73 22nd 31 53 24 7th 2 1 3 2
1991/92 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 27 31 58 14th 8th 1 3 4th 4th
1992/93 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 31 49 80 20th 13 3 3 6th 6th
1993/94 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 34 9 7th 16 8th - - - - -
1993/94 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 22nd 6th 4th 10 14th - - - - -
1994/95 Mighty Ducks of Anaheim NHL 38 8th 16 24 12 - - - - -
1995/96 HC Lugano NLA 36 25th 28 53 10 4th 2 2 4th 0
1996/97 HC Lugano NLA 18th 14th 12 26th 12 - - - - -
1997/98 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLA 40 31 39 70 14th 12 1 7th 16 23 10
1998/99 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 40 32 47 79 24 12 9 11 20th 4th
1999/00 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 45 20th 47 67 39 9 0 7th 7th 6th
2000/01 HC Ambrì-Piotta NLA 43 12 22nd 34 36 2 1 0 0 0 0
LHJMQ total 270 281 299 580 168 39 34 36 70 38
AHL total 78 70 64 134 47 7th 1 5 6th 8th
NHL overall 373 118 159 277 105 40 9 7th 16 12
NLA total 182 102 148 250 98 27 9 25th 34 16

( 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 Lebeau, Stéphan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lebeau, Stéphan Armand (full name); Lebeau, Stephan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Jérôme , Quebec