Yanick Dupré

Yanick Dupré
Date of birth	November 20, 1972
place of birth	Montréal , Québec , Canada
date of death	August 16, 1997
Place of death	Montréal , Québec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	1991 , 3rd round, 50th position Philadelphia Flyers
Career stations
1989	Chicoutimi saguenéens
1989-1992	Drummondville Voltigeurs
1992	Verdun Collège Français
1992-1994	Hershey Bears
1994-1996	Philadelphia Flyers

Yanick Dupré (born November 20, 1972 in Montréal , Québec , † August 16, 1997 ibid) was a Canadian ice hockey striker who played for the Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League between 1994 and 1996 .

Career

Yanick Dupré began his career in 1989 in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec with the Voltigeurs de Drummondville . There he presented himself as a good left winger and after the Voltigeurs in the final round at the Memorial Cup was, he was selected by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft selected in the third round at position 50th During the 1991/92 season, he moved within the LHJMQ to the Collège Français de Verdun . When the LHJMQ season was over, he came in the ongoing NHL - season still a commitment to Philadelphia.

He spent the following two years in the American Hockey League with the Hershey Bears , the Flyers' farm team . There he showed solid performances and was finally called up in the 1994/95 season for 22 games in the NHL squad, but could neither score nor book an assist for himself.

1995/96 he had his best season and scored 56 points in 52 games as one of the strongest scorers of the Hershey Bears AHL. He was also able to score two goals in twelve NHL games with the Flyers.

Towards the end of the season, Dupré fell into a three-week coma in March 1996 and was diagnosed with leukemia during subsequent examinations . Weakened by the coma, he could hardly move at first, but over time that stabilized again. He was undergoing chemotherapy, and in the fall, doctors told him that the cancer had disappeared from his body. Dupré started training again. He also got involved in leukemia foundations by collecting money, auctioning shirts and ice hockey sticks signed by his teammates and informing the public about blood cancer and bone marrow donations .

In May 1997, an examination found that the cancer had returned to Dupré's body, this time in a more acute form. Dupré had to rely on a bone marrow donation that he received in June. He fell into a coma again in August and finally died on August 16, 1997 at the age of 24.

In memory of Yanick Dupré, the AHL created the Yanick Dupré Memorial Award , which has been presented every year since 1998 to the player who has distinguished himself through special commitment to society. The Philadelphia Flyers renamed the Class Guy Award , which honored the player on the team who had the best relationship with the media, to the Yanick Dupré Memorial Class Guy Award , which has honored the Flyers player since 1999, the character , Dignity and respect best demonstrated on and off the ice.

Achievements and Awards

• 1995 AHL All-Star Classic

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1989/90	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		53	15th	19th	34	69		-	-	-	-	-
1990/91	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		58	29	38	67	87		11	8th	5	13	33
1991/92	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		28	19th	17th	36	48		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Collège Français de Verdun	LHJMQ		12	7th	14th	21st	21st		-	-	-	-	-
1991/92	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1992/93	Hershey Bears	AHL		63	13	24	37	22nd		-	-	-	-	-
1993/94	Hershey Bears	AHL		51	22nd	20th	42	42		8th	1	3	4th	2
1994/95	Hershey Bears	AHL		41	15th	19th	34	35		-	-	-	-	-
1994/95	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		22nd	0	0	0	8th		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Hershey Bears	AHL		51	20th	36	56	81		-	-	-	-	-
1995/96	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		12	2	0	2	8th		-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				151	70	88	158	225		11	8th	5	13	33
AHL total				207	70	99	169	180		8th	1	3	4th	2
NHL overall				35	2	0	2	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 )

Web links

• Yanick Dupré at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Yanick Dupré at hockeydb.com (English)