Sylvain Lefebvre

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Sylvain Lefebvre
Date of birth October 14, 1967
place of birth Richmond , Quebec , Canada
size 188 cm
Weight 93 kg
position defender
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1984-1987 Titan de Laval
1987-1989 Canadiens de Sherbrooke
1989-1992 Canadiens de Montréal
1992-1994 Toronto Maple Leafs
1994-1995 Nordiques de Québec
1995-1999 Colorado Avalanche
1999-2003 New York Rangers
2003-2004 SC Bern

Sylvain Jean Lefebvre (born October 14, 1967 in Richmond , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and current coach . Between 1989 and 2003, the defender played a total of over 1,000 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , Toronto Maple Leafs , Nordiques de Québec , Colorado Avalanche and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League . He won the Stanley Cup with the Avalanche in 1996 . In the 2003/04 season he let his career at SC Bern end, where he became Swiss champions with the team . Lefebvre then worked as the Avalanche's assistant coach before he was head coach of the Canadiens de Montréal farm teams in the American Hockey League from 2012 to 2018 . Since summer 2018 he has been employed again as an assistant coach for the San Diego Gulls in the AHL.

Career

Player career

In his youth, Lefebvre played for the Laval Titan from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . In 1986 the Canadiens de Montréal offered the defender his first professional contract, but for the next three years he only played with the Canadiens' farm team , the Canadiens de Sherbrooke , in the American Hockey League . Lefebvre finally made his debut in the National Hockey League at the beginning of the 1989/90 season . He is one of the few players who did not get into the professional league through the NHL Entry Draft , but was offered a contract directly.

After three years with the Habs , the player was transferred to the Toronto Maple Leafs on August 20, 1992 in exchange for a third-round draft pick for the 1994 NHL Entry Draft . There he completed two seasons before he was given on June 28, 1994 in an exchange to the Nordiques de Québec . Strikers Wendel Clark and Landon Wilson went to Québec with Lefebvre . The Maple Leafs got Garth Butcher , Todd Warriner and the young Mats Sundin in return . In addition, both teams exchanged their respective first-round draft picks for the NHL Entry Draft in 1994.

Sylvain Lefebvre completed a total of five seasons for the Nordiques de Québec / Colorado Avalanche organization, where he won the Stanley Cup with Colorado in 1996 . In the 1997/98 season he was team captain for 18 games , as Joe Sakic was out due to an injury. At the beginning of the 1999/2000 season , Lefebvre signed a four-year contract with the New York Rangers . However, his performance sank rapidly and so it came about that he was sent for several weeks to the Rangers farm team, the Hartford Wolf Pack from the AHL, during the 2001/02 season . After another year in New York , his contract expired and was not renewed. He then left the NHL and joined SC Bern for a year before saying goodbye to active sports and ending his career.

Coaching career

His first coaching position was that of assistant coach at the beginning of the 2007-08 season with the Lake Erie Monsters , the farm team of the Colorado Avalanche. After coaching the Monsters in the AHL for two years, he was appointed to the Avs coaching staff as assistant coach to Joe Sacco on June 4, 2009 . After three years as assistant coach with the Avalanche, Lefebvre took a position as head coach of the Hamilton Bulldogs . He kept this when the team was relocated to St. John's in 2015 and to Laval in 2017 . After the 2017/18 season, which he ended with the Rocket as the worst team in the AHL, he was sacked. Since summer 2018 he has been employed again as an assistant coach for the San Diego Gulls in the AHL.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1984/85 Voisins de Laval LHJMQ 66 7th 5 12 31 - - - - -
1985/86 Titan de Laval LHJMQ 71 8th 17th 25th 48 14th 1 0 1 25th
1986/87 Titan de Laval LHJMQ 70 10 36 46 44 15th 1 6th 7th 12
1986/87 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL - - - - - 1 0 0 0 0
1987/88 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL 79 3 24 27 73 6th 2 3 5 4th
1988/89 Canadiens de Sherbrooke AHL 77 15th 32 47 119 6th 1 3 4th 4th
1989/90 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 68 3 10 13 61 6th 0 0 0 2
1990/91 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 63 5 18th 23 30th 11 1 0 1 6th
1991/92 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 69 3 14th 17th 91 2 0 0 0 2
1992/93 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 81 2 12 14th 90 21st 3 3 6th 20th
1993/94 Toronto Maple Leafs NHL 84 2 9 11 79 18th 0 3 3 16
1994/95 Nordiques de Québec NHL 48 2 11 13 17th 6th 0 2 2 2
1995/96 Colorado Avalanche NHL 75 5 11 16 49 22nd 0 5 5 12
1996/97 Colorado Avalanche NHL 71 2 11 13 30th 17th 0 0 0 25th
1997/98 Colorado Avalanche NHL 81 0 10 10 48 7th 0 0 0 4th
1998/99 Colorado Avalanche NHL 76 2 18th 20th 48 19th 0 1 1 12
1999/00 New York Rangers NHL 82 2 10 12 43 - - - - -
2000/01 New York Rangers NHL 71 2 13 15th 55 - - - - -
2001/02 Hartford Wolf Pack AHL 15th 0 5 5 11 - - - - -
2001/02 New York Rangers NHL 41 0 5 5 23 - - - - -
2002/03 New York Rangers NHL 35 0 2 2 10 - - - - -
2003/04 SC Bern NLA 11 2 4th 6th 14th 15th 0 6th 6th 44
LHJMQ total 207 26th 58 84 123 29 2 6th 8th 37
AHL total 171 18th 61 79 203 13 3 6th 9 8th
NHL overall 945 30th 154 184 674 129 4th 14th 18th 101

( 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jason Nason: Sylvain Lefebvre Named Head Coach of Hamilton Bulldogs. In: hamilton-today.com. June 13, 2012, accessed October 18, 2018 .
  2. ^ Sylvain Lefebvre fired as head coach of Laval Rocket. In: cbc.ca. April 9, 2018, accessed October 18, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Lefebvre, Sylvain
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lefebvre, Sylvain Jean (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond , Quebec