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| 1972 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Richard Brodeur
Selected in seventh round
No. 97 overall by New York Islanders
Born
September 15, 1952
 | Position:
Goaltender
Height: 5-6 Weight: 142
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Cornwall (QMJHL)
Birthplace: Longueuil, Quebec (Canada)
Hometown:
Montreal, Quebec |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | W-L-T |
GAA | SO |
SV% | | 1970-71 |
Verdun | QMJHL |
6 | 1-4-1 |
7.83 | 0 |
n/a | | |
Cornwall | QMJHL |
35 | n/a |
4.11 | 0 |
n/a | | 1971-72 |
Cornwall | QMJHL |
58 | 40-17-1 |
2.93 | 5 |
n/a |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Memorial Cup: 1972 (Cornwall)
Stafford Smythe Trophy (Memorial Cup
MVP): 1972 (Cornwall)
QMJHL Plante Trophy (GAA Leader):
1971-72 (Cornwall) (2.93)
QMJHL All-Star First Team: 1971-72
(Cornwall)
QMJHL Wins
Leader: 1971-72 (Cornwall) (40 wins)
QMJHL Shutouts Leader:
1971-72 (Cornwall) (5 shutouts)
QMJHL Playoffs Goalie Games Leader:
1972 (Cornwall) (16 games)
QMJHL Playoffs Wins Leader 1972 (Cornwall) (12 wins)
Memorial Cup
GAA Leader: 1972 (Cornwall) (1.34 GAA)
Memorial Cup Wins Leader:
1972 (Cornwall) (2 wins)
Memorial Cup Shutouts Leader: 1972
(Cornwall) (1 shutout) | | NHL CAREER |
Debut: February 27, 1980 (N.Y. Islanders at
Quebec)
Numbers:
30 (N.Y. Islanders); 35 (Vancouver); 31 (Hartford)
Stanley
Cup: Never won. Status: Retired 1988 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP |
W-L-T | GAA | SO | SV% |
| 1980-1988 |
NYI, VAN, HAR | 385 |
131-175-62 | 3.85 |
6 | n/a |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP | W-L |
GAA |
SO | SV% |
| 1981-1988 |
Vancouver, Hart. | 33 |
13-20 | 3.32 | 1 | n/a |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
All-Star Game: 1983 (injured, did not play)
Stanley Cup Finals (Lost):
1982 (Vancouver)
NHL
Goalie Games-Played Leader: 1985-86 (Vancouver) (64)
NHL
Minutes Leader: 1985-86 (Vancouver) (3,541 minutes)
Vancouver President's Trophy
(MVP): 1980-81,
1981-82, 1984-85
Vancouver Taylor Award
(Media MVP): 1980-81, 1981-82, 1984-85
Vancouver Molson Cup
(Three-Stars Leader): 1980-81, 1981-82, 1984-85, 1985-86
1979-80: Played two
regular-season games for N.Y. Islanders team that went on to win Stanley Cup,
but did not appear in playoffs.
Miscellaneous:
Injured in 1979 N.Y. Islanders training camp and was sent down to minors. ...
Recalled to N.Y. Islanders for the first time when Billy Smith left the team
to attend his father's funeral, and became the first goalie other than Smith
or Glenn Resch since 1974 to start for the N.Y. Islanders when he made his NHL debut
on Feb. 27, 1980. ... Missed part of 1980-81 season after injuring left knee
on Feb. 15, 1981. The injury required surgery to remove bone spurs. ... Missed
part of 1982-83 season with knee injury, back injury and with lacerated left
ear and perforated left eardrum suffered when he was hit by Dan Daoust shot in
game vs. Toronto on Feb. 5, 1983. ... Selected to play in 1983 All-Star Game
but missed game because of injury to eardrum. ... Missed part of 1983-84
season with fractured jaw suffered when he was hit by Greg Tebbutt slapshot in
game against Pittsburgh on Feb. 17, 1984. ... Became first goaltender in
Vancouver history to record shutout in playoffs when he blanked
Calgary 7-0 on April 7, 1984. ... Missed parts of 1987-88 season with bronchitis
and groin injury. ... Held Vancouver career records (all since
broken) for games, minutes played by a goaltender and wins when he was
traded away from team in March 1988. ... Was last player from WHA's inaugural
1972-73 season to play in NHL. ... Allowed 29 career goals to Wayne Gretzky,
the most Gretzky scored against a single NHL goaltender. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Quebec (WHA); Maine (NAHL);
Indianapolis (CHL); Fredericton (AHL); Binghamton (AHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
WHA Avco Trophy: 1977 (Quebec)
CHL
Sawchuk Trophy (lowest team GAA): 1979-80 (Indianapolis) (co-winner with
Jim Park)
WHA All-Star Second Team: 1978-79 (Quebec)
CHL
All-Star First Team: 1979-80 (Indianapolis)
WHA Draft Pick: 1972
(by Quebec)
WHA Wins Leader: 1975-76 (Quebec) (44 wins)
WHA Shutouts Leader:
1978-79 (Quebec) (3 shutouts)
WHA Goalie Games-Played Leader: 1975-76 (Quebec)
(69 games)
WHA Minutes Leader: 1975-76 (Quebec) (3,967 minutes)
WHA Playoffs Wins Leader:
1977 (Quebec) (12 wins)
WHA Playoffs Shutouts Leader: 1977 (Quebec)
(1), 1978 (Que.) (1)
WHA Playoffs Goalie
Games-Played Leader: 1975 (Quebec) (15)
WHA Playoffs Minutes Leader:
1975 (Quebec) (906)
CHL Goals-Against Average Leader: 1979-80
(Indianapolis) (2.88)
CHL Shutouts Leader: 1979-80 (Indianapolis) (4
shutouts)
CHL Playoffs GAA Leader: 1980
(Indianapolis) (2.02 GAA)
CHL Playoffs Shutouts Leader: 1980
(Indianapolis) (1 shutout, tie)
1976-77: Played
on WHA regular-season champion (Quebec).
Miscellaneous: Once made 15 saves against Bobby Hull in WHA game
while playing for Quebec against Hull's Winnipeg team. ... Set WHA record for
victories in season with 44 in 1975-76 and still held record when league
folded in 1979. ... Missed part of 1977-78 season with knee injury that
required surgery. ... Was one of only three goaltenders to play all seven full
seasons of the WHA's existence. ... Considered retirement following 1979-80 season because
he did not want to return to minors, but was soon traded out of N.Y. Islanders
organization. ... Career ended when he was waived and released by Hartford
organization on Nov. 23, 1988, after seeing limited action with AHL affiliate
in Binghamton. ... Founded King Richard Brodeur's Hockey
School in Burnaby, British Columbia, after his retirement and continued to teach
goaltending while serving as school's president. ... Founded annual Richard Brodeur Celebrity Golf Classic in Vancouver in 2000.
Personal: Nicknamed "King Richard" during Vancouver's 1982 playoff run.
The nickname stuck throughout the remainder of his career. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| WHA/TRADE: After the draft in 1972, Brodeur
chose to enter the new WHA instead of the NHL. He remained in that league with
Quebec until the WHA merged with the NHL after the 1978-79 season. At the time
of the merger on June 9, 1979, the N.Y. Islanders reclaimed his NHL rights,
but Quebec countered by protecting him as part of its privilege to
keep three players from its WHA franchise. The N.Y. Islanders then agreed to
leave Gerry Hart unprotected for the 1979 NHL Expansion Draft if Quebec would
agree to trade Brodeur to them for another goaltender at a later date. The deal was struck, and
Quebec officially traded Brodeur to the N.Y.
Islanders in exchange for Goran Hogosta in August 1979. Rather than be forced
to expose him to the 1980 NHL Waiver Draft, the N.Y. Islanders gave up Brodeur's rights a second time when they traded him
to Vancouver in exchange for a swap of 1981 fifth-round picks (N.Y. Islanders selected Jacques Sylvestre and Vancouver selected Moe Lemay) on October 6, 1980. |
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SNAPSHOT '72 | | Total Selected: |
152 | | Forwards: |
88 | | Defense: |
47 | | Goaltenders: |
17 | | Major Junior: |
121 | | College Players: |
25 |
| Canadian: |
139 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
2 | | USA Citizens: |
11 | | U.S.-Born: |
10 |
| European: |
0 |
| Reached NHL: |
67 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
11 | | Hall of Fame: |
2 |
| All-Star Game: |
13 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
3 |
| Olympians: |
1 |
| Picks Traded: |
24 |
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