Sabres All Time Frenchie Team

[etiennep99]

Richard Martin      Gilbert Perreault      René Robert
Benoit Hogue        Pierre Turgeon        Jason Pominville
Gilles Hamel          Daniel Brière           Donald Audette
Yvon Lambert        Joey Juneau            Réal Cloutier
                              André Savard          J.P. Dumont


                Jocelyn Guevremont        Philippe Boucher
                Larry Carrière                         ?            
                Marc-André Gragnani


                        Marin Biron
                        Robert Sauvé
                        Jocelyn Thibeault

Honorable Mention: Alan Haworth©, Jean-Guy Talbot(D), Pat Lalime(G), any others who I missed.

 

Q1. Where are the French defencemen? [Maybe I just don't know enough of
their history to find any?]

Q2. Why were Yvon Lambert and Real Cloutier buried/destroyed by Bowman?

 

 

-My apologies if this has been done before.

Edited May 7, 2018 by etiennep99

[etiennep99]

Q3. Was Alan Haworth francophone?

 

He was born in Drummondville.  He played in the QMJHL.  He played for the Nordiques.  When he moved to Switzerland, he played for Bern which was on the Francophone/germanophone border.

[Sabel79]

Jean Luc Grand Pierre and Phillipe Boucher on D and you're done.

[That Aud Smell]

Q1. Where are the French defencemen? [Maybe I just don't know enough of

their history to find any?]

 

Judging by how teams defend in the QMJHL (ils ne), there are few of them generally.

[Doohicksie]

Mike Robataille was born in Southern Ontario on the shores of Lake Huron, but that sure is a Frenchie name.  That's another D for the roster.

[Wyldnwoody44]

Benoit pouilot?

[nfreeman]

Sauve should be the #1 goalie.

 

And JF Sauve could be a depth player/PP specialist.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

Judging by how teams defend in the QMJHL (ils ne), there are few of them generally.

On mobile, so I am actually sticking my tongue out at this post right now.

[Doohicksie]

Benoit pouilot?

 

BALLZ

[Taro T]

Richard Martin      Gilbert Perreault      René Robert

Benoit Hogue        Pierre Turgeon        Jason Pominville

Gilles Hamel          Daniel Brière           Donald Audette

Yvon Lambert        Joey Juneau            Réal Cloutier

                              André Savard          J.P. Dumont

                Jocelyn Guevremont        Philippe Boucher

                Larry Carrière                         ?            

                Marc-André Gragnani

                        Marin Biron

                        Robert Sauvé

                        Jocelyn Thibeault

Honorable Mention: Alan Haworth©, Jean-Guy Talbot(D), Pat Lalime(G), any others who I missed.

 

Q1. Where are the French defencemen? [Maybe I just don't know enough of

their history to find any?]

Q2. Why were Yvon Lambert and Real Cloutier buried/destroyed by Bowman?

 

 

-My apologies if this has been done before.

Hogue (IMHO) gets disqualified because he hated playing for the "prejudiced against Francophile" Sabres organization. Pretty sure he would boycott the nomination.

 

The fact that their only 2 (up until this coming June) #1 overall picks were both French Canadian & that their most famous line was the French Connection didn't temper his disdain.

[GASabresIUFAN]

Juneau played like 9 games for us. How about Jacques Richard?

 

Here are 4 players with Anglo names but are from Quebec

Tony McKegney - Montreal, but played in the OHA for Kingston Canadians

Derek Smith - Quebec City, but played in the OHA for Ottawa

 

On D and both from Montreal

Gord Donnelly he played in the Q and for Les Nordiques

Gary Galley - NCAA

[Wyldnwoody44]

And Robert.... GUHLE

[pi2000]

Gates Orlando

[That Aud Smell]

Sauve should be the #1 goalie.

 

Oh hell yeah.

 

IIRC, he shut out the Habs 2x in a 5-game series once,

 

On mobile, so I am actually sticking my tongue out at this post right now.

 

Ha!

 

Here are 4 players with Anglo names but are from Quebec

 

Interesting factoids.

 

But if you're an anglo from Quebec, doesn't that disqualify you?

[Randall Flagg]

Juneau played like 9 games for us. How about Jacques Richard?

 

Here are 4 players with Anglo names but are from Quebec

Tony McKegney - Montreal, but played in the OHA for Kingston Canadians

Derek Smith - Quebec City, but played in the OHA for Ottawa

 

On D and both from Montreal

Gord Donnelly he played in the Q and for Les Nordiques

Gary Galley - NCAA

Just looked at Jacques Richard's page, first time I've heard of him. WTF is up with his stats?

Games/goals/points through his career:

74/13/31

78/27/43

63/17/29

73/12/35

21/2/2

61/10/25

14/3/15

78/52/103

59/15/41

35/9/23

end

 

What the hell happened that one year?

[Doohicksie]

What?  You think Drew Stafford was the first to pull that stunt?

[Randall Flagg]

What?  You think Drew Stafford was the first to pull that stunt?

Haha. 

 

The degree to which that year is an outlier is staggering. His second highest point total is only 41% of his highest. That's freaking insane.

[GASabresIUFAN]

Flag,

 

Richard was immensely talented but rarely applied it. That year he played on a line with one of the best ever named Peter Statsny. He was moved off the line the next year.

 

My mom used to call him the Turkey”

[Randall Flagg]

Put it this way - the equivalent to that scenario is Drew Stafford's contract year being a 122 point pace, rather than the 69 point pace it was. 

 

Insane.

Flag,

Richard was immensely talented but rarely applied it. That year he played on a line with one of the best ever named Peter Statsny. He was moved off the line the next year.

My mom used to call him the Turkey”

Ah, that would make sense.

[Taro T]

Just looked at Jacques Richard's page, first time I've heard of him. WTF is up with his stats?

Games/goals/points through his career:

74/13/31

78/27/43

63/17/29

73/12/35

21/2/2

61/10/25

14/3/15

78/52/103

59/15/41

35/9/23

end

 

What the hell happened that one year?

  

Flag,

Richard was immensely talented but rarely applied it. That year he played on a line with one of the best ever named Peter Statsny. He was moved off the line the next year.

My mom used to call him the Turkey”

He also was quite likely sober that season.

 

EXTREMELY rampant rumors that he took to the ice drunk during his years in Buffalo. He play, while a Sabre, did nothing to quash those rumors. He showed a lot of promise in Atlanta, which is why the Sabres were willing to part w/ Carriere & a 1st to land him. His was one of the Sabres worst trades ever.

[etiennep99]

Oh hell yeah.

 

IIRC, he shut out the Habs 2x in a 5-game series once,

 

 

Ha!

 

 

Interesting factoids.

 

But if you're an anglo from Quebec, doesn't that disqualify you?

The year was 1983 as I recall.  Sauve had 3 shutouts as I recall.  Then came Boston and Brad Park as I recall.

[Taro T]

The year was 1983 as I recall.  Sauve had 3 shutouts as I recall.  Then came Boston and Brad Park as I recall.

It was '83. But Sauve only got the 2 SOs in Moe-ray-all during the 3 game sweep.

 

Last Sabres series win until May Day in '93. (Celebrate the Tradition. <_<)

[etiennep99]

It was '83. But Sauve only got the 2 SOs in Moe-ray-all during the 3 game sweep.

 

Last Sabres series win until May Day in '93. (Celebrate the Tradition. <_<)

 

If Scotty started tearing down the team when he arrived, and the next playoff series win was over 10 years later, well, hey now, when can we expect our next series win?  2023? (based on Pominville trade beginning the tank).   Please let it not be so long away.

[Taro T]

If Scotty started tearing down the team when he arrived, and the next playoff series win was over 10 years later, well, hey now, when can we expect our next series win?  2023? (based on Pominville trade beginning the tank).   Please let it not be so long away.

Depending upon how it's being defined, it could be said that Scotty started tearing down the team when he arrived in '79-'80.

 

But, if not for the HUGE layoff waiting for the Aisles in '80, that squad might have finally excoriated the Filly Spectrum demons.

[GASabresIUFAN]

How about an all Euro team?