Philippe Bozon

Philippe Bozon ( born November 30, 1966 in Chamonix ) is a French former ice hockey player and current coach, who in his active from 1984 to 2006 the for the St. Louis Blues in the National Hockey League and the Adler Mannheim in the Deutsche Hockey League has played. His father Alain Bozon and his son Tim were or are also a professional hockey player.

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Playing career

Philippe Bozon began his career as a hockey player in his native France, the CS Megève, for the first team he worked from 1982 to 1984, the Ligue Magnus, the highest French league, active. In the 1982/83 season he was doing also awarded the Trophée Jean -Pierre Graff as rookie of the year in Ligue Magnus. Subsequently, the winger played from 1984 to 1987 for the Castors de Saint -Jean in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL. In the season 1985/86 he was elected to the second all-star team of the QMJHL. During his time as a junior player, he was selected on 29 September 1985 as a free agent by the St. Louis Blues, for their farm team Peoria Rivermen of the International Hockey League, he came in parallel with the game mode with the Castors 1985-1987 to 33 appearances, in which he scored five goals and had eleven templates.

For the 1987/88 season Bozon returned to France, where he received a contract with HC Mont- Blanc, with whom he immediately became French Champion. From 1989 to 1991 he played for the League rival CSG Grenoble, with whom he also won the French league title in the 1990/91 season, after he had already received the Trophée Albert Hassler as the best French player of the Ligue Magnus in the previous year. The 1991/92 season he began at Chamonix HC, for which he in Ligue Magnus in 22 games 49 scorer points, including 30 goals scored. In the middle of the season, he joined the St. Louis Blues, for in 15 games, he scored two goals in the National Hockey League and gave three assists. In the following two seasons was the Frenchman a regular player with the St. Louis Blues in the NHL. In the shortened because of a lockout season 1994/95, he played only one other NHL insert for the Blues before he returned to France to his former club from Grenoble.

In the 1995/96 season Bozon stood by the HC La Chaux -de-Fonds in the Swiss National League B under contract. The following season he began during his league rivals Lausanne HC before he moved to the middle of the season to the Adler Mannheim of the Deutsche Eishockey Liga. With Mannheim, he was in the years 1997, 1998 and 1999, three consecutive time German champion. From 1999 to 2001 played the four -time Olympian for the HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A. He then moved to the second division HC Servette Genève, with whom he immediately achieved promotion to the National League A in the 2001/ 02 season. In this he played for Servette HC up to end of his career at the age of 39 years following the 2005/ 06 season. In 2008 he ever had the honor to be included in the IIHF Hall of Fame was not until the third Frenchman.

Internationally

For France Bozon took the B World Championships in 1990, 1991 and 2001, and the A World Championships 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000 in part. In addition, he was in the squad of his country at the Olympic Winter Games in Calgary in 1988, in Albertville in 1992, in Nagano in 1998 and 2002 in Salt Lake City. At the Winter Games in 1988, he remained as a substitute without the use.

Coaching career

From 2006 to 2009 Bozon oversaw the U20 Juniors of HC Servette Genève in the Elite Junior A. In January 2010 he was appointed after the dismissal of Sweden Kent Johansson as head coach at HC Lugano in the Swiss National League A. After ten months in office, he was dismissed in November 2010 after a disappointing start to the season, as the HC Lugano finished only one place in the play -outs after 27 games. During his time in Lugano, he was also responsible for the French junior national team at the U20 Junior B World Cup 2010 behind the gang.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

Career Stats

( 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 )