Joé Juneau

Joseph "Joe" Juneau ( born January 5, 1968 in Pont- Rouge, Quebec ) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who and during his active career between 1991 and 2004 for the Boston Bruins, Washington Capitals, Buffalo Sabres, Ottawa Senators, Phoenix Coyotes Montreal Canadiens played in the National Hockey League on the position of the center.

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Career

Joé Juneau began his career in his native Quebec in junior leagues before he went in 1987 to Troy, New York, to study aerospace engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Although he spoke no English when he went to the U.S., he was able to complete his studies with a very good grade after three years.

In the time in college, he played ice hockey in the college team, where he developed into a scorer. In 124 games, he scored 213 points. That's why he was selected by the Boston Bruins in the fourth round at position 81 in the NHL Entry Draft in 1988. In 1991, he joined the Canadian National Team. A contract offer from Boston he had ruled out because the team did not want him to pay the full salary, they should send him to the farm team in a unterklassige league. During the period when he helped Team Canada Olympic silver medal in 1992 to win.

Shortly after the Winter Olympics, he received a fair contract for him in Boston and proved immediately that he was worth the money. In the remaining 14 games of the season he scored 19 times and also in the play- offs, he showed good performance. The 1992/93 season was then his first full season in the National Hockey League and it should also be the best of his career. With 102 points, he played one of the best rookie seasons in the history of the NHL and set the rookie record for most assists one that was previously held solely by Peter Šťastný. But he was put in the shade in the Finns Teemu Selanne of the year, who also played his first year in the NHL with 132 points and achieved the best result of all time a rookie and the Calder Memorial Trophy Juneau snatched away as the best rookie in the NHL.

Also in the season 1993/94 Juneau played strong and scored 72 times in 63 games for Boston before they him in March 1994 to the Washington Capitals for Al Iafrate, who should only play twelve games for Boston. Juneau was not able to his strong performances in the first two years, which was also the fact that he could play a little season, because he was always injured again in the next few seasons. Nevertheless, he was a mainstay of the capital, brought good performance and made ​​it to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they were subject to the Detroit Red Wings with the team in 1998.

In March 1999 he was transferred to the Buffalo Sabres. With the Sabres in the same year he reached the Stanley Cup final, but again could not win Juneau's crew. Only a few months after the transfer, he signed a contract with the Ottawa Senators, but even here he remained only a short time, because in the summer of 2000, he was selected by the Minnesota Wild in the NHL Expansion Draft 2000, which transferred him shortly thereafter to the Phoenix Coyotes. After only one year in Phoenix, he was discharged in a transfer business to the Montreal Canadiens and thus returned to his native Quebec.

In Buffalo, Ottawa and Phoenix he no longer belonged to the stars and their points values ​​were only about 35 scorer points per season. In Montreal he remained three years and then finished in the summer of 2004 his career.

Currently, Juneau shareholder and customer service in Quebec City in Harfan Technologies.

On November 12, 2005 Joé Juneau was recorded as the second member of the Hockey Ring of Honor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, also hung his college team in a ceremony a banner with the number 9 in the ice rink, so that the number in honor of Joé Juneau never will be given. The first member of the Hockey Ring of Honor is, Adam Oates, who had played with Juneau together in Boston and Washington.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

Internationally

Represented Canada at:

  • 1992 Winter Olympic Games

( 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 )

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