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Alfie Turcotte
Selected in first round
No.
17 overall by
Montreal Canadiens
Born June 5, 1965
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Center
Height: 5-9 Weight: 175
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Portland (WHL)
Birthplace:
Gary, Indiana (USA)
Hometown: Holt, Michigan |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1981-82 |
Compuware | Mich. AAA |
93 | 131 |
152 | 283 |
40 | | 1982-83 |
Nanaimo | WHL |
36 | 23 |
27 | 50 |
22 | | |
Portland | WHL |
39 | 26 |
51 | 77 |
26 |
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PRE-DRAFT AWARDS AND HONORS
Memorial Cup: 1983 (Portland)
Memorial Cup Smythe Trophy (MVP): 1983 (Portland)
Memorial Cup Goals Leader: 1983 (Portland) (5 goals)
Miscellaneous: Ranked by NHL Central Scouting Bureau as No. 11 overall
prospect for the 1983 NHL draft. ... Rated in The Hockey News draft preview issue as
No. 14 overall prospect for 1983 NHL draft. ... Played on line with Pat LaFontaine for Detroit Compuware in 1981-82.
... Grew up in Lansing, Mich., and Detroit areas, where his father had been a college
player and minor league coach. ... Was Laval's 17th-round pick in 1982 QMJHL
midget draft.
The Turcotte Controversy:
Turcotte landed at the center of a bitter WHL controversy in January 1983
after he was traded from Nanaimo to Portland by his own father. Real
Turcotte, Alfie's father, brought his son to Nanaimo for the 1982-83
season after purchasing a share of the team and being named its head coach. In December 1982, Nanaimo
general manager Les Calder was fired, and Real Turcotte gave up his coaching
duties to take on the role of general manager. Shortly after assuming his
new position, Real Turcotte traded Alfie Turcotte to Portland in exchange
for Kevin Griffin, Darwin Penny, Darcy Allison and a player to be named
later. The deal was a steal for Portland, and Real Turcotte was clearly
making the imbalanced trade in order to give his son Alfie the chance to
play with a better WHL team and thereby improve his draft stock. Nanaimo
owner Bill Zeitlin was dismayed that the league allowed the trade to stand,
and said it had only happened because Portland owner Brian Shaw was also the
WHL's board chairman, and league president Ed Chynoweth was afraid to cross
him by violating the deal. Zeitlin had tried to void the deal, but Chynoweth
would not allow him to do so. This prompted Zeitlin to sue the WHL |
| NHL CAREER |
Debut: January 5, 1984 (Detroit at Montreal)
Numbers: 8 (Montreal); 13
(Winnipeg); 39, 36, 37 (Washington)
Stanley Cup: Never won.
Playing Status:
Retired 1998 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS | | Years |
Teams | GP |
G | A |
TP | PIM | | 1984-1991 |
Mont., Winnipeg, Wash. |
112 | 17 |
29 | 46 | 49 |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP | G |
A | TP |
PIM | | 1985 |
Montreal | 5 |
0 | 0 |
0 | 0 |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
1985-86: Played two regular-season games for
Montreal team that went on to win Stanley Cup, but was not with team during
postseason.
Miscellaneous: Had assist in his first NHL game. ... Played on line with
Mario Tremblay and Mats Naslund for Montreal in 1983-84. ... Traded to
Edmonton in June 1986, but never played for parent team. ... Missed part of
1988-89 season with scratched right cornea, cut right eyelid, and laceration
below right eye, an injury suffered when he was accidentally hit by Larry
Robinson's stick during Winnipeg's Nov. 5, 1988, game at Montreal. The
injury left him hospitalized for several days, and he did not return to
action until Winnipeg's Nov. 16, 1988, game at Edmonton. ... ... Signed with
Boston as an unrestricted free agent on July 6, 1989, but never played for
parent team, because three months later, Boston traded him to Washington in
exchange for Mike Millar on Oct. 2, 1989. ... Attended Chicago's 1997
training camp. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams:
Portland (WHL); Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia (AHL); Baltimore (AHL); Moncton (AHL);
Lugano (Switz.); Villach (Austria); Frankfurt (Germany); Orlando (IHL);
Schwenningen (Germany); Geneva, Lausanne (Switzerland); Indianapolis (IHL);
Arkansas (WPHL)
World Championships: 1986
(sixth place)
World Junior Championships: 1984 (sixth place)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
Austria Championship:
1992, 1993 (Villach)
AHL
All-Star Second Team: 1987-88 (Sher.-Baltimore-Moncton)
Austria Points Leader: 1991-92 (Villach) (104), 1993-94 (Villach)
(89)
Austria Assists Leader: 1991-92 (Villach) (61 assists),
1992-93 (Vill.) (75 assists), 1993-94 (Villach) (63 assists)
Miscellaneous: Led Team USA with 11
points and nine assists at 1984 World Junior Championships. ... Led
Baltimore (AHL) with 85 points in 1990-91. ... Worked as lead instructor at
his family's Turcotte Hockey School during playing days and after his
retirement, while later working with NHL players as a stick-handling skills
coach at Nashville, Carolina and Atlanta training camps. ... Also coached
youth hockey in Chicago Chill Amateur Hockey Association after his
retirement.
Personal:
Son of Turcotte Hockey School founder Real Turcotte, a Canadian-born
Michigan State hockey player who went on to coach in minor leagues and major
junior hockey. |
| HOW HE GOT AWAY |
| TRADE (2):
Montreal traded Turcotte to Edmonton in exchange for future considerations
on June 25, 1986. Eleven months later, Montreal got Turcotte back in
exchange for cash and settlement of future considerations on May 14, 1987,
making his season with Nova Scotia (AHL) a de facto loan to the Edmonton
organization. Montreal lost Turcotte again when the Canadiens traded him to
Winnipeg in exchange for future considerations on January 14, 1988 |
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SNAPSHOT '83 | | Total Selected: |
242 | | Forwards: |
134 | | Defense: |
86 | | Goaltenders: |
22 | | Major Junior: |
122 | | Tier II/Jr. B: |
19/5 | | College Players: |
15 | | High School: |
47 |
| Canadian: |
148 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
0 | | USA Citizens: |
60 | | U.S.-Born: |
60 |
| European: |
34 |
| Reached NHL: |
113 |
| Stanley Cup: |
21 | | Hall of Fame: |
4 |
| All-Star Game: |
20 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
7 |
| Olympians: |
34 |
| Picks Traded: |
41 |
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