Claude Vilgrain
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Claude Vilgrain (* March 1, 1963 in Port -au -Prince ) is a former Canadian- Haitian hockey player, who in his active period from 1980 to 2002, including for the Vancouver Canucks, New Jersey Devils and Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League as well as the Frankfurt Lions and the SERC Wild Wings has played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga.
Career
Claude Vilgrain, who had already emigrated as a child with his family to Canada, began his career as a hockey player with the Laval Voisins, for which he was active from 1980 to 1983 in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 1982 in the sixth round as the 107th overall player of the Detroit Red Wings, for which, however, he never played. After the attacker for the team from the University of Moncton was on the ice for three seasons, he played from 1986 to 1988 in numerous games for various national teams of Team Canada. On June 18, 1987, the native Haitians finally got a contract with the Vancouver Canucks, for whom he made his debut in the National Hockey League in the 1987/88 season.
Prior to the 1988/89 season Vilgrain got no place in the NHL squad Vancouver, after which he was transferred Devils just before the end of the Trade Deadline to New Jersey, where he prevail for their farm team, which played Utica Devils of the American Hockey League. During his only full NHL season the winger scored in the 1991/92 season in 71 games 46 scorer points, including 19 goals. In addition to joining two points scorer, including a goal in seven playoff games.
On 3 August 1993 Vilgrain joined as a free agent with the Philadelphia Flyers, for which he, however, in the following season only two games played in the NHL, where he remained point and impunity. The rest of the season, he was active for their AHL farm team, the Hershey Bears. Then the Olympians played for the first time in Europe, where he first stood from 1994 to 1997 for three years for the SC Herisau from the Swiss National League B, and one each season long in the German Ice Hockey League at the Frankfurt Lions and the SERC Wild Wings under contract. After two more years in the Swiss NLB when EHC Biel, the attacker in 2002 ended at SC Bern of National League A his career.
Internationally
For Canada Vilgrain participated in the Olympic Winter Games in 1988 partly in Calgary, where he finished fourth with his team. In addition Vilgrain stood in 150 Test matches for Team Canada on the ice, in which he scored 128 points scorer, 54 goals.