Michel Picard
Born (1969-11-07) November 7, 1969
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 19902009

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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GPGAPtsPIM GPGAPtsPIM
1985–86 Sainte-Foy Gouverneurs QMAAA 42533487
1986–87 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 6633356853
1987–88 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 6940559571
1988–89 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 665981140107 41342
1989–90 Binghamton Whalers AHL 6716244098
1990–91 Springfield Indians AHL 7756409661 188132118
1990–91 Hartford Whalers NHL 51012
1991–92 Springfield Indians AHL 4021173844 1120234
1991–92 Hartford Whalers NHL 253586
1992–93 Kansas City Blades IHL 337101751 1232520
1992–93 San Jose Sharks NHL 2540424
1993–94 Portland Pirates AHL 6141448599 1711102122
1994–95 PEI Senators AHL 5732578958 84486
1994–95 Ottawa Senators NHL 24581314
1995–96 Ottawa Senators NHL 1726810
1995–96 PEI Senators AHL 5537458279 55162
1996–97 Västra Frölunda HC SEL 30110
1996–97 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 82465510158 520210
1997–98 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 5828416942
1997–98 St. Louis Blues NHL 1618929
1998–99 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 62242
1998–99 St. Louis Blues NHL 4511112216 50002
1999–00 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 6533356850 17810184
1999–00 Edmonton Oilers NHL 20002
2000–01 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 7231397022 104594
2000–01 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 71450
2001–02 Adler Mannheim DEL 6024285230 1276134
2002–03 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 7832528434 153148
2003–04 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 7517375435 40002
2003–04 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 6036559122 17611178
2005–06 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 5550378735 185152012
2006–07 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 4848519918 76392
2007–08 Thetford Mines Isothermic LNAH 5222517336 73692
2008–09 Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta LNAH 755104
2008–09 Thetford Mines Isothermic LNAH 73472 10110
AHL totals 582283355638530 8837347196
NHL totals 166284270103 50002

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.
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