Michel Picard (ice hockey)

Michel Picard
Born	(1969-11-07) November 7, 1969 (age 55) Beauport, Quebec, Canada
Height	5 ft 11 in (180 cm)
Weight	190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb)
Position	Left wing
Shot	Left
Played for	Hartford Whalers San Jose Sharks Ottawa Senators St. Louis Blues Edmonton Oilers Philadelphia Flyers
NHL draft	178th overall, 1989 Hartford Whalers
Playing career	1990–2009

Michel Daniel Picard (born November 7, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Picard played in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, and Philadelphia Flyers. As of 2018 ^[update] , he serves as an amateur scout for the Blues. ^[1]

Playing career

As a youth, Picard played in the 1981 and 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Beauport, Quebec City. ^[2]

Picard began his career playing for Trois-Rivières Draveurs in the QMJHL, where he established himself as a scoring force who was also tough and hard hitting. His final year there he scored 140 points in 66 games.^{[ citation needed ]}

Picard was drafted by the Whalers in the 9th round, 178th overall, in the 1989 NHL Entry Draft. He met with great success in the minor leagues, leading the American Hockey League with a franchise-record 56 goals for the Springfield Indians in 1991, while leading the team to its final Calder Cup championship. ^[3]

However, Picard would never translate his earlier success to the NHL. He never played a full season in the NHL and only played in at least half of the games in a season once, during the 1999 season. That season he also played in five playoff games, the only time he played in the NHL playoffs.^{[ citation needed ]}

For the 2002 season Picard played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany for the Adler Mannheim. He then played for two years with the Grand Rapids Griffins (a team for which he played parts of six seasons in all, and is the career leader in goals, assists and points) in the AHL before joining Thetford Mines Prolab of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey in 2004. He led the team in scoring in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was the leading scorer in the LNAH in the 2007 season, retiring after the end of the 2009 season.^{[ citation needed ]}

As of November 2014, Picard is the 16th leading goal scorer in minor league history with 563 , as well as 19th in points with 1256.^[ citation needed ]

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

				Regular season						Playoffs
Season	Team	League		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM		GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1985–86	Sainte-Foy Gouverneurs	QMAAA		42	53	34	87	—		—	—	—	—	—
1986–87	Trois-Rivières Draveurs	QMJHL		66	33	35	68	53		—	—	—	—	—
1987–88	Trois-Rivières Draveurs	QMJHL		69	40	55	95	71		—	—	—	—	—
1988–89	Trois-Rivières Draveurs	QMJHL		66	59	81	140	107		4	1	3	4	2
1989–90	Binghamton Whalers	AHL		67	16	24	40	98		—	—	—	—	—
1990–91	Springfield Indians	AHL		77	56	40	96	61		18	8	13	21	18
1990–91	Hartford Whalers	NHL		5	1	0	1	2		—	—	—	—	—
1991–92	Springfield Indians	AHL		40	21	17	38	44		11	2	0	2	34
1991–92	Hartford Whalers	NHL		25	3	5	8	6		—	—	—	—	—
1992–93	Kansas City Blades	IHL		33	7	10	17	51		12	3	2	5	20
1992–93	San Jose Sharks	NHL		25	4	0	4	24		—	—	—	—	—
1993–94	Portland Pirates	AHL		61	41	44	85	99		17	11	10	21	22
1994–95	PEI Senators	AHL		57	32	57	89	58		8	4	4	8	6
1994–95	Ottawa Senators	NHL		24	5	8	13	14		—	—	—	—	—
1995–96	Ottawa Senators	NHL		17	2	6	8	10		—	—	—	—	—
1995–96	PEI Senators	AHL		55	37	45	82	79		5	5	1	6	2
1996–97	Västra Frölunda HC	SEL		3	0	1	1	0		—	—	—	—	—
1996–97	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		82	46	55	101	58		5	2	0	2	10
1997–98	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		58	28	41	69	42		—	—	—	—	—
1997–98	St. Louis Blues	NHL		16	1	8	9	29		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		6	2	2	4	2		—	—	—	—	—
1998–99	St. Louis Blues	NHL		45	11	11	22	16		5	0	0	0	2
1999–00	Grand Rapids Griffins	IHL		65	33	35	68	50		17	8	10	18	4
1999–00	Edmonton Oilers	NHL		2	0	0	0	2		—	—	—	—	—
2000–01	Philadelphia Phantoms	AHL		72	31	39	70	22		10	4	5	9	4
2000–01	Philadelphia Flyers	NHL		7	1	4	5	0		—	—	—	—	—
2001–02	Adler Mannheim	DEL		60	24	28	52	30		12	7	6	13	4
2002–03	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		78	32	52	84	34		15	3	1	4	8
2003–04	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		75	17	37	54	35		4	0	0	0	2
2003–04	Thetford Mines Prolab	LNAH		60	36	55	91	22		17	6	11	17	8
2005–06	Thetford Mines Prolab	LNAH		55	50	37	87	35		18	5	15	20	12
2006–07	Thetford Mines Prolab	LNAH		48	48	51	99	18		7	6	3	9	2
2007–08	Thetford Mines Isothermic	LNAH		52	22	51	73	36		7	3	6	9	2
2008–09	Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta	LNAH		7	5	5	10	4		—	—	—	—	—
2008–09	Thetford Mines Isothermic	LNAH		7	3	4	7	2		1	0	1	1	0
AHL totals				582	283	355	638	530		88	37	34	71	96
NHL totals				166	28	42	70	103		5	0	0	0	2

References

1. "Blues Front Office". NHL.com. Retrieved January 18, 2019.
2. "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-17.
3. Garry Brown (January 4, 2019). "It's a big hockey Saturday, including a T-Birds 'Blast from the Past' game". masslive.com. Retrieved January 18, 2019.

External links

• Biographical information and career statistics from NHL.com , or  Eliteprospects.com , or  Eurohockey.com , or  Hockey-Reference.com , or  The Internet Hockey Database