Yanic Perreault | |||
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Born | Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada | April 4, 1971||
Height | 5 ft 11 in (180 cm) | ||
Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) | ||
Position | Centre | ||
Shot | Left | ||
Played for | Toronto Maple Leafs Los Angeles Kings Montreal Canadiens Nashville Predators Phoenix Coyotes Chicago Blackhawks | ||
National team | Canada | ||
NHL draft | 47th overall, 1991 Toronto Maple Leafs | ||
Playing career | 1991–2008 |
Yanic Jacques Perreault (born April 4, 1971) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre who played a total of fourteen seasons in the National Hockey League. He is often considered one of the best face-off men in league history and holds the NHL record for the highest face-off winning percentage in a career (62.86%) as of the conclusion of the 2022-23 NHL season. [1]
As a youth, he played in the 1983 and 1984 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Sherbrooke, Quebec. [2]
Perreault started his hockey career for the Trois-Rivières Draveurs where he was one of the best offensive players in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, racking up a total of 185 points in his most productive season. He was drafted in the third round, 47th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1991 NHL Entry Draft.[ citation needed ]
Carrying a reputation as too slow a skater to succeed in the NHL, Perreault played three years for the St. John's Maple Leafs, Toronto's American Hockey League affiliate. Perreault led the St. John's Maple Leafs to a seventh game in the Calder Cup finals in the 1992 season and to first-place finishes the following two seasons; his 132 goals and 276 points became in that span, and remain, career records for the Leafs' American Hockey League franchise.[ citation needed ]
Perreault made his NHL debut in that third season with the Leafs, showing some flash in spot duty, before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings for a fourth round pick in 1994. He spent most of that season with the Kings' minor league affiliate, the Phoenix Roadrunners, scoring 51 goals to lead the team.[ citation needed ]
The following year was his breakout season, making the NHL for good with the Kings, where he became the team's lead centre after Wayne Gretzky was traded late in the year amidst a full-scale reorganization of the team; Perreault scored 25 goals to finish second on the squad. He played three more seasons in Los Angeles before being sent back to Toronto in 1999, for Jason Podollan and a third round selection. In 2001, Perreault signed with the Montreal Canadiens as a free agent, remaining three seasons before sitting out the lockout year of 2005, after which he signed with the Nashville Predators, with whom he scored 57 points, his NHL career high. [3] [4]
He signed after that single season with the Phoenix Coyotes and was selected to play in the 2007 NHL All-Star Game. On February 27, 2007, Perreault, packaged with a fifth round draft pick, was traded from the Coyotes to Toronto for defencemen Brendan Bell and a second round draft pick, marking his third round of duty with the Maple Leafs.[ citation needed ]
Perreault signed with the Chicago Blackhawks as a free agent on July 1, 2007. However, with his scoring skills diminishing, he retired at the end of the 2007-08 season.[ citation needed ]
On October 4, 2013 − one day ahead of the second game of the season - the Blackhawks announced they had hired Perreault to help the team improve its face-off success rate. [5] Perreault is also head coach for the Chicago Mission 2005 youth team.
Perreault's has four children, sons Jacob, Jeremy and Gabe, and a daughter Liliane. All of his children also play ice hockey. [6] [7]
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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Season | Team | League | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | ||
1987–88 | Cantons de L'Est Cantonniers | QMAAA | 42 | 70 | 57 | 127 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 22 | 6 | ||
1988–89 | Trois-Rivières Draveurs | QMJHL | 70 | 53 | 55 | 108 | 48 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||
1989–90 | Trois-Rivières Draveurs | QMJHL | 63 | 51 | 63 | 114 | 75 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 19 | ||
1990–91 | Trois-Rivières Draveurs | QMJHL | 67 | 87 | 98 | 185 | 103 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | ||
1991–92 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 62 | 38 | 38 | 76 | 19 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 4 | ||
1992–93 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 79 | 49 | 46 | 95 | 56 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 2 | ||
1993–94 | St. John's Maple Leafs | AHL | 62 | 45 | 60 | 105 | 38 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 18 | 14 | ||
1993–94 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 13 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1994–95 | Phoenix Roadrunners | IHL | 68 | 51 | 48 | 99 | 52 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1994–95 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 26 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1995–96 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 78 | 25 | 24 | 49 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1996–97 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 41 | 11 | 14 | 25 | 20 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1997–98 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 79 | 28 | 20 | 48 | 32 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | ||
1998–99 | Los Angeles Kings | NHL | 64 | 10 | 17 | 27 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
1998–99 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 12 | 7 | 8 | 15 | 12 | 17 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 6 | ||
1999–00 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 58 | 18 | 27 | 45 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||
2000–01 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 76 | 24 | 28 | 52 | 52 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | ||
2001–02 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 82 | 27 | 29 | 56 | 40 | 11 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 0 | ||
2002–03 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 73 | 24 | 22 | 46 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2003–04 | Montreal Canadiens | NHL | 69 | 16 | 15 | 31 | 40 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 | ||
2005–06 | Nashville Predators | NHL | 69 | 22 | 35 | 57 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||
2006–07 | Phoenix Coyotes | NHL | 49 | 19 | 14 | 33 | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2006–07 | Toronto Maple Leafs | NHL | 17 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
2007–08 | Chicago Blackhawks | NHL | 53 | 9 | 5 | 14 | 24 | — | — | — | — | — | ||
NHL totals | 859 | 247 | 269 | 516 | 402 | 54 | 11 | 19 | 30 | 18 |
Year | Team | Event | Result | GP | G | A | Pts | PIM | |
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1996 | Canada | WC | 8 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 | ||
Senior totals | 8 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
Award | Year | |
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QMJHL | ||
Michel Bergeron Trophy (Offensive Rookie of the Year) | 1989 | |
Canadian Major Junior - Rookie of the Year | 1989 | |
First All-Star Team | 1991 | |
Frank J. Selke Memorial Trophy (Most Gentlemanly Player) | 1991 | |
Jean Beliveau Trophy (Leading scorer) | 1991 | |
Michel Briere Trophy (Most Valuable Player) | 1991 | |
World Championships | ||
Best Forward | 1996 | |
NHL | ||
NHL All-Star Game | 2007 |
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