Yvon Lambert (ice hockey player)

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Yvon Lambert in 2010

Yvon Lambert in 2010
Date of birth May 20, 1950
place of birth Drummondville , Quebec , Canada
size 183 cm
Weight 88 kg
position Left wing
Shot hand Left
Draft
NHL Amateur Draft 1970 , 3rd lap, 40th position
Detroit Red Wings
Career stations
1968-1970 Rangers de Drummondville
1970-1971 Port Huron flags
1971-1973 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1973-1981 Canadiens de Montréal
1981-1982 Buffalo Sabers
1982-1984 Rochester Americans

Yvon Pierre Lambert (born May 20, 1950 in Drummondville , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player and coach who played 773 games for the Canadiens de Montréal and Buffalo Sabers in the National Hockey League between 1968 and 1984 on the position of the left winger . Lambert celebrated his greatest successes in the service of the Canadiens de Montréal, where he spent nine of his ten seasons in the NHL. Between 1976 and 1979 he won the prestigious Stanley Cup four times in a row with the team.

Career

Lambert spent his junior years between 1968 and 1970 with the Rangers de Drummondville from his native city, with whom he was in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec from the 1969/70 season . In his last year there, the winger collected 101 points in 52 missions. He also made the franchises of the National Hockey League attracted attention and so chose him Detroit Red Wings in NHL Amateur Draft in 1970 in the third round in 40th position.

However, the Red Wings failed to recognize Lambert's potential and initially used him in their farm team , the Port Huron Flags , in the International Hockey League . The French-Canadian spent the entire 1970/71 season there and collected 50 points in 79 games. In the reverse draft of the summer of 1971, they finally lost the attacker to the Canadiens de Montréal . There Lambert stood for the next two years in the squad of the cooperation partner Nova Scotia Voyageurs in the American Hockey League . With the team he won the championship in the form of the Calder Cup in his AHL rookie year . In the winning team, however, he played a rather subordinate role. The striker did not gain a foothold in the AHL until the 1972/73 season . At the end of the season he led the league by scorer points and goals, for which he received the John B. Sollenberger Trophy as top scorer . He was also called to the AHL First All-Star Team and made his debut for Montréal in the NHL during the season.

Due to the change of numerous Canadiens players in the World Hockey Association competing with the NHL in the summer of 1973 Lambert was with the beginning of the 1973/74 season in the squad of Montreal Canadiens. After a weak first year with only 16 points from 60 games, the Canadiens got what they had hoped for from the 1975/75 season . In the following seven playing years, Lambert was a constant in the Habs line-up and never achieved less than 40 points per year. With the exception of the 1977/78 season , there were always over 50 points and 20 goals that he contributed on the offensive. Lambert was thus also an integral part of the core of players who were responsible between 1976 and 1979 for the Canadiens to win the prestigious Stanley Cup four times in a row .

After a total of eight seasons in the jersey of the Canadiens and ten in the entire organization, Lambert's time in the Franco-Canadian metropolis came to an end in October 1981 when he was selected by the Buffalo Sabers in the NHL Waiver Draft . There the now 31-year-old played his last NHL season. At the beginning of the 1982/83 season he played for the farm team Rochester Americans in the AHL for the following two years . With the Amerks , Lambert won his second Calder Cup in 1983. The following year he lost to the team in the final and then ended his active career at the age of 34. Subsequently, between 1984 and 1985 he was in charge of the Canadien junior de Verdun from the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec as head coach, which he led to win the Coupe du Président for the first time .

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1968/69 Rangers de Drummondville LHJQ 29 37 66 - - - - -
1969/70 Rangers de Drummondville LHJMQ 52 50 51 101 89 6th 7th 4th 11 16
1970/71 Port Huron flags IHL 65 23 18th 41 81 14th 8th 1 9 32
1971/72 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 67 18th 21st 39 116 15th 4th 4th 8th 28
1972/73 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 76 52 52 104 84 13 9 9 18th 32
1972/73 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1973/74 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 60 6th 10 16 42 5 0 0 0 7th
1974/75 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 80 32 35 67 74 11 4th 2 6th 0
1975/76 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 80 32 35 67 28 12 2 3 5 18th
1976/77 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 79 24 28 52 50 14th 3 3 6th 12
1977/78 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 18th 22nd 40 20th 15th 2 4th 6th 6th
1978/79 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 79 26th 40 66 26th 16 5 6th 11 16
1979/80 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 77 21st 32 53 23 10 8th 4th 12 4th
1980/81 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 73 22nd 32 54 39 3 0 0 0 2
1981/82 Buffalo Sabers NHL 77 25th 39 64 38 4th 3 0 3 2
1982/83 Rochester Americans AHL 79 26th 22nd 48 10 12 2 4th 6th 2
1983/84 Rochester Americans AHL 79 27 43 70 14th 18th 8th 11 19th 2
AHL total 301 123 138 261 224 58 23 28 51 64
NHL overall 683 206 273 479 340 90 27 22nd 49 67

( 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 Lambert, Yvon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambert, Yvon Pierre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Drummondville , Quebec