Yvan Cournoyer

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Hockey Hall of Fame , 1982
Yvan Cournoyer
Date of birth November 22, 1943
place of birth Drummondville , Quebec , Canada
Nickname Roadrunner
size 170 cm
Weight 78 kg
position Right wing
number # 12
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1960-1961 Lachine Maroons
1961-1964 Canadien junior de Montréal
1963-1978 Canadiens de Montréal

Yvan Serge Cournoyer (born November 22, 1943 in Drummondville , Québec ) is a retired Canadian ice hockey player . The right winger completed a total of over 1000 games for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League between 1963 and 1978 . During this time he won the Stanley Cup ten times with the Canadiens , making him one of the three most successful players in league history, along with his teammates Henri Richard (eleven titles) and Jean Béliveau (also ten). He also led Montréal in1973 as the top scorer of the playoffs to win the trophy, so that he was awarded the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player . With the Canadian national team , the attacker took part in the 1972 Summit Series .

Cournoyer, nicknamed " Roadrunner " for his speed on the ice , has been a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame since 1982 . In addition, his jersey number 12 for the Canadiens, he even four years as captain , led since 2005 locked .

Career

youth

Yvan Cournoyer was born in Drummondville and played in his youth for the Maroons de Lachine in Lachine , an arrondissement of Montréal , after he moved there with his family at the age of 14. Within the city, he moved to the 1961/62 season to the Canadien junior de Montréal , a junior team at that time still directly associated with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League (NHL). The Canadien junior took part in the game operations of the Ontario Hockey Association (OHA) at that time , so that he ran up in the highest ranking youth league in the neighboring province of Ontario . There the winger made his breakthrough in the 1963/64 season, when he led the entire league in goals (67) and was surpassed only by his teammate André Boudrias (135) in scorer points (111) . As a result, he was awarded the Red Tilson Trophy as the most valuable player in the league. It is also reported from this time that Cournoyer had such a thigh circumference that he had to wear trousers specially tailored for him. At the same time, this formed the basis for his speed on the ice, which made him one of the best attacking players of his generation and earned him the nickname " Roadrunner " .

Canadiens de Montréal

His achievements in the OHA meant that Cournoyer made his debut for the Canadiens de Montréal in the National Hockey League (NHL) parallel to his 1963/64 junior season in November 1963 and made five appearances there by the end of the season. After he scored four goals there - the first on his debut - and at the beginning of the following season another seven games for the Canadiens' farm team , the As de Québec , had played in the American Hockey League , the Canadian established himself in Montréal's NHL squad. Head coach Claude Ruel compared him to the legendary Maurice Richard because of his offensive qualities, he just had to do more shooting training. As a result, he designed pucks out of scrap steel in his father's workshop, so that he improved his shot considerably by the following season. In addition, he won the Stanley Cup with the team at the end of his first full season in the highest league in North America .

This should be followed by nine more titles in the next 14 seasons, so that Cournoyer, along with his teammates Henri Richard (eleven titles) and Jean Béliveau (also ten), is one of the three most successful players in NHL history. In five Stanley Cup successes ( 1965 , 1966 , 1968 , 1969 , 1971 ), the trio was on the ice together. Cournoyer himself was given a special honor in the 1973 playoffs when he received the Conn Smythe Trophy as the most valuable player of the post-season , after leading the Canadiens to the title as top scorer (24) and top scorer (15). The attacker recorded his best statistics of the regular season around 1970, when he reached his respective career highs with 87 points (1968/69) and 47 goals (1971/72). This also had the consequence that he was part of the squad of the Canadian national team at the Summit Series in 1972 and was used there in all eight games. The Canadian was also a member of the NHL Second All-Star Team four times during this time .

In 1975 he took over the captaincy from Henri Richard, who had ended his career. Although Cournoyer was increasingly constrained by back problems and his personal statistics waned, he led the team from 1976 to 1979 to another four title wins in a row. In the season 1978/79, however, he was only on the ice until December 1978, before he was canceled due to a back operation, which should also mean the end of his active career. Although he only played 15 games and did not play a playoff, he was still part of the official winning team in 1979, making this his tenth and final title.

Cournoyer had played a total of 1115 games in the NHL in 16 seasons, recorded 990 scorer points and also participated in six NHL All-Star Games . In 1982 he was elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame after the regular waiting period . In the 1996/97 season he worked as an assistant to Mario Tremblay in the coaching staff of the Canadiens, but did not pursue this career path any further. In addition, his jersey number was 12 by the Canadiens in 2005 banned and is therefore no longer awarded. In addition, the Montreal Roadrunners from Roller Hockey International , an inline hockey league , were named after his nickname.

Achievements and Awards

Cournoyer's jersey on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto
  • 1972 NHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1973 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
  • 1973 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1973 Conn Smythe Trophy
  • 1973 NHL Second All-Star Team
  • 1974 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
  • 1976 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1977 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1978 Participation in the NHL All-Star Game
  • 1978 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1979 Stanley Cup win with the Canadiens de Montréal
  • 1982 inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1960/61 Lachine Maroons MMJHL 42 37 31 68 - - - - -
1961/62 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 32 15th 16 31 8th 6th 4th 4th 8th 0
1962/63 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 36 37 27 64 24 10 3 4th 7th 6th
1963/64 Canadien junior de Montréal OHA 53 63 48 111 30th 17th 19th 8th 27 15th
1963/64 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 5 4th 0 4th 0 - - - - -
1964/65 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 55 7th 10 17th 10 12 3 1 4th 0
1964/65 As de Québec AHL 7th 2 1 3 0 - - - - -
1965/66 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 18th 11 29 8th 10 2 3 5 2
1966/67 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 69 25th 15th 40 14th 10 2 3 5 6th
1967/68 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 64 28 32 60 23 13 6th 8th 14th 4th
1968/69 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 76 43 44 87 31 14th 4th 7th 11 5
1969/70 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 72 27 36 63 23 - - - - -
1970/71 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 65 37 36 73 21st 20th 10 12 22nd 6th
1971/72 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 73 47 36 83 15th 6th 2 1 3 2
1972/73 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 67 40 39 79 18th 17th 15th 10 25th 2
1973/74 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 67 40 33 73 18th 6th 5 2 7th 2
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 76 29 45 74 32 11 5 6th 11 4th
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 71 32 36 68 20th 13 3 6th 9 4th
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 25th 28 53 8th - - - - -
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 68 24 29 53 12 15th 7th 4th 11 10
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 15th 2 5 7th 2 - - - - -
OHA total 121 115 91 206 62 33 26th 16 42 21st
NHL overall 968 428 435 863 255 147 64 63 127 47

International

Represented Canada to:

year team event result Sp T V Pt SM
1972 Canada Summit Series 1st place 8th 3 2 5 2
Men overall 8th 3 2 5 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 : Yvan Cournoyer  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Yvan Cournoyer. Bio, pictures, stats and more | Historical Website of the Montreal Canadiens. Canadiens de Montréal , accessed December 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Fischlers' Ice Hockey Encyclopedia. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-690-01856-8 , p. 128.
  3. ^ Stan Fischler, Shirley Fischler: Fischlers' Ice Hockey Encyclopedia. Thomas Y. Crowell, New York, 1979, ISBN 0-690-01856-8 , p. 129.
  4. ^ Dan Diamond: The National Hockey League Official Guide & Record Book 2017. Triumph Books, Chicago, 2017, ISBN 978-1-62937-283-9 , p. 246.
  5. ^ Laurel Zeisler: Historical Dictionary of Ice Hockey. The Scarecrow Press, 2013, ISBN 978-1-4422-5532-6 , p. 81.
personal data
SURNAME Cournoyer, Yvan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cournoyer, Yvan Serge (full name); Roadrunner (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Drummondville , Quebec