Éric Desjardins
Éric Desjardins ( born June 14, 1969 in Rouyn -Noranda, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who played during his playing career 1988-2006 for the Montreal Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League on the position of the defender.
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Career
Desjardins played during his junior time together with Pierre Turgeon at the Granby Bisons in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. In 1988 he became junior world champion with the Canadian team.
The Montreal Canadiens selected him in the NHL Entry Draft in 1987 in the second round as the 38th out. He stayed for a year in Granby and played at the end of season seven games in the American Hockey League with the Canadiens de Sherbrooke.
In the 1988/89 season he was allowed 13 regular season games in the NHL contest with Montreal. In the playoffs, he came with his team in the finals, but there were subject to the Canadiens to the Calgary Flames. In the coming years, he was the best offensive defender of the Canadiens. When Montreal was the end of the 1992/93 season the Stanley Cup win, he got his big appearance in the fifth game of the final series. Single-handedly, he defeated the Los Angeles Kings to Wayne Gretzky, in which he scored all three goals in a 3-2 in extra time.
In the strike- shortened season due in 1994/95 he was transferred to nine games with the Canadiens to the Philadelphia Flyers. With him, Gilbert Dionne and John LeClair Canadiens gave from the Flyers to get Mark Recchi to Montreal.
In Philadelphia formed with Eric Lindros to LeClair, the Legion of Doom. The team, which consisted almost entirely of tall players, reached in the 1996/97 season a place in the finals for the Stanley Cup, but the Detroit Red Wings were playing too strong for the Flyers.
For the Canadian national team, he played at the Olympic Winter Games in Nagano in 1998 after a defeat against Finland you missed the bronze medal here.
The 1999/2000 season brought for him with 14 goals and 41 templates had hitherto been his best statistical values . From the 2002/03 season injuries plagued him and he could not in any season over 50 games contest. So he declared his resignation on 10 August 2006. In July 2008, the Flyers received him in their coaching staff.
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- U20 World Junior Championships 1988
- U20 World Junior Championships 1989
- Canada Cup 1991
- World Cup of Hockey 1996
- 1998 Winter Olympics
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )