Jean-Guy Talbot
Jean -Guy Talbot ( born July 11, 1932 in Cap-de- la -Madeleine, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach, who during his active career, among other things for the Montreal Canadiens, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues, Minnesota North Stars and Buffalo Sabres played in the National Hockey League.
Career
Jean -Guy Talbot, who preferred the physical play, was during his career as an excellent passer. Talbot went during his junior time from 1949 to 1952 for the Trois-Rivieres Reds in the OJHL on the ice. At the age of 20 years, the defensive player completed his first missions at senior level in the Quebec Aces in the Quebec Hockey League. After the 1954/55 season Talbot, who finished the regular season with 34 points from 59 matches, was elected to the First All -Star team in the league. In the same season he had his first jobs for the Montreal Canadiens in the NHL, where the links Sagittarius in the next 13 years held the truth and with the Habs experienced the most successful era in franchise history. In the Habs he usually wore the jersey number 17 and was at times also involved as an assistant captain. In his first full season with the Canadiens, the season 1955/56, the defensive player won with the team 's first Stanley Cup. The cornerstone of successful Habs team during the 1950s and 1960s were, among others, Jean Béliveau, Bernie Geoffrion, Doug Harvey, Tom Johnson, Dickie Moore, Jacques Plante, Claude Provost, Henri Richard and Maurice Richard. 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1965 and 1966 Talbot won six more Stanley Cups with the Montreal Canadiens. His personal best season he achieved in the 1961/62 season with 47 points scorer in the regular season, for which the otherwise rather defensively oriented Talbot was rewarded with a nomination to the NHL First All -Star Team.
1956 had the Francophone Canadians its first use in NHL All-Star Game. Six more followed, in which Talbot was mostly in the squad of the Habs, where he represented the team in the NHL All-Stars a time. When NHL Expansion Draft 1967 it left the Canadiens unprotected, as these now sat on younger players like Serge Savard. The Minnesota North Stars took the opportunity and chose the defensive player from. For this, however, Talbot played only four games before he was released in October 1967 in a swap deal together with Dave Richardson in exchange for Bob McCord and Duke Harris to the Detroit Red Wings. Also in Detroit Talbot lingered not long before the end of the 1967/68 season, on 13 January 1968, the Red Wings put him on the Waiverliste, chose him from the St. Louis Blues. With the blues he was reached in 1968, 1969 and 1970, the finals for the Stanley Cup, but lost each series. After he had also started the season 1970/71 in St. Louis, sent him this in November 1970 to Buffalo. When the Buffalo Sabres, he helped stabilize the young defense, but missed the playoffs with the team. After this season Talbot decided to end his playing career.
Talbot was left to the professional hockey as head coach get and was engaged during the 1971/72 season as head coach of the Denver Spurs from the Western Hockey League. During the following season he committed the St. Louis Blues as head coach. The unsatisfactory sporting results cost him a year later the job, so that Talbot was replaced by Lou Angotti. In 1974, the French-speaking Canadians was again engaged as head coach of the Denver Spurs, which is now played in the Central Hockey League. For the 1975/76 season the team continued the operation of gambling in the World Hockey Association. In January 1976, the financially troubled franchise was relocated to Ottawa and put the game operating under the name Ottawa Civics continue. Talbot remained until its dissolution which followed 15 days after the move, as head coach in office. Another stop in his coaching career were in the season 1977/78 the New York Rangers.