Gilbert Dionne
Gilbert Dionne ( born September 19, 1970 in Drummondville, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who during his active career, among other things for the Montreal Canadiens, Philadelphia Flyers and Florida Panthers of the National Hockey League as well as the Krefeld Penguins and Hanover Scorpions played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. His older brother is the hockey Hall -of- Famer Marcel Dionne.
Career
Gilbert Dionne played during his junior period from 1986 to 1988, the Niagara Falls Canucks before he went the following two seasons with the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League to the ice. In the 1989/90 season he reached with the Kitchener Rangers to the Memorial Cup finals, in which the team the Oshawa Generals defeated. Subsequently, he was selected in the fourth round at the NHL Entry Draft in 1990 at position 81 of the Montreal Canadiens, made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Dionne in the 1990/91 season. He spent almost the entire season but in the farm team for the Fredericton Canadiens of the American Hockey League. There Dionne was with 87 points from 77 games the third- best scorer of the team while the regular season.
The following season, he went thanks to his good performances on a regular player in Montreal and was elected in February 1992 for NHL rookie of the month. Again, a season later, Dionne began with the Montreal Canadiens in the finals for the Stanley Cup against the Los Angeles Kings Luc Robitaille and Wayne Gretzky to through and won in five games with the prestigious trophy. The 1993/94 season, the striker spent in the French-Canadian franchise, where he confirmed the benefits from the previous season. Shortly after the start of the shortened by the lockout NHL season 1994/95 he was transferred in February 1995 to League rival Philadelphia Flyers. Together with him changed Éric Desjardins and John LeClair, Mark Recchi and in return during a third-round vote in NHL Entry Draft 1995 - Austrian Martin Hohenberger was selected with the later - to the Canadiens. For the Flyers Dionne played only 25 games since he was removed shortly after the beginning of the season 1995/96 from the squad. The attacker then played for the Carolina Panthers in the American Hockey League, before the rest of the season the Florida Panthers joined in January 1996. Then he ran to one year for the Carolina Monarchs in the AHL before he played four years for the Cincinnati Cyclones of the International Hockey League.
In the summer of 2001, Dionne finally ventured his first contract with a European club to sign. He played the 2001/02 season at the Krefeld Penguins in the German Ice Hockey League, where he was successful with 41 points scorer. He spent the following year at the game League rivals Hannover Scorpions, where he was able to increase his yield the pre-season for another five points. From 2003 to 2006 he made his career at the Cambridge Hornets in the OHA Senior Hockey League finish.