Guy Chouinard

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{{short description|Canadian ice hockey player}}
{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image =
| image_size = 230px
| position = [[Centre (ice hockey)|Centre]]
| shoots = Right
| height_ft = 5
| height_in = 11
| weight_lb = 182
| played_for = [[Atlanta Flames]]<br>[[Calgary Flames]]<br>[[St. Louis Blues]]
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|10|20|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Quebec City]], [[Quebec]], Canada
| draft = 28th overall
| draft_year = 1974
| draft_team = [[Atlanta Flames]]
| career_start = 1974
| career_end = 1985
}}
''' Guy Camil Chouinard''' (born October 20, 1956) is a Canadian former professional [[ice hockey]] player who played in the 1970s and 80's for the [[Atlanta Flames]], [[Calgary Flames]], and [[St. Louis Blues]]. He has also had a lengthy career as a coach in the [[Quebec Major Junior Hockey League|QMJHL]] since retiring as a player. He is now head coach in Quebec's college hockey league with the [[Champlain-St. Lawrence]] Lions in Quebec City.

==Playing career==
As a youth, Chouinard played in four consecutive [[Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament]]s from 1966 to 1969, with the Quebec Citadelles and Quebec Beavers [[minor ice hockey]] teams from [[Quebec City]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-01-06|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306085544/https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Chouinard was selected by the [[Atlanta Flames]] with the 28th overall pick in the [[1974 NHL Entry Draft]], following a successful junior career with the [[Quebec Remparts]] in which he was a regular at the age of 15. He was one of the first underage players available in the entry draft after the [[National Hockey League]]'s decision allowing the drafting of underage players. While playing with Atlanta, he set records for scoring goals in six consecutive games from November 14 to November 24, 1978; he was the first Flame to score 50 goals in a season in the 1978–79 season. Chouinard scored the final goal in Atlanta Flames history during the 1979-80 NHL playoffs in a 5-2 home team loss against the New York Rangers. He remained with the team when it [[Atlanta Flames#Relocation|relocated to Calgary]] for the 1980–81 season. He left the Flames franchise as its all-time leader in points (529) and assists (336) (records since broken) on September 6, 1983, when he was traded to the [[St. Louis Blues]] for future considerations.

After playing in the first nine games of the 1984-85 season in the [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|International Hockey League]] with [[Peoria Rivermen (IHL)|Peoria]], Chouinard opted to retire.

==Coaching career==
Chouinard has also had a brilliant career (more than 10 years) coaching in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, notably for the [[Victoriaville Tigres]], Quebec Remparts, and Prince Edward Island Rocket and was enshrined in the ''QMJHL Hall of Fame'' in 2005. He has coached the second most games in the QMJHL (988), most wins as a coach (515) and most championships as a coach (4).

From 2002 to 2006, he coached in the [[Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey]], a minor professional league in Quebec, first with the [[Trois-Rivieres Vikings]], then the [[Thetford-Mines Prolab]]. He was fired as the Prolab head-coach on January 13, 2006, after a 7–3 loss against the [[Saint-Hyacinthe Cristal]]. With the Prolab, his record was 45 wins and 48 loss (including 10 shootout loss and 2 losses in overtime).

Chouinard was hired by the QMJHL's Prince Edward Island Rocket to replace [[Yanick Jean]] as [[head coach]], on October 22, 2007.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/guy-chouinard-to-coach-p-e-i-rocket-1.682671|title=Guy Chouinard to coach P.E.I. Rocket|publisher=CBC News|date=October 23, 2007|access-date=2023-02-20}}</ref> He was relieved of his duties on October 6, 2009.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/rocket-coach-fired-1.781845|title=Rocket coach fired|publisher=CBC News|date=October 6, 2009|access-date=2023-02-20}}</ref>

==Other==
Chouinard was nicknamed "Gramps" because he appeared much older than he really was. He is not the only member of his family to play [[professional]] hockey; he is the older brother of former minor-leaguer Jean Chouinard and the father of [[Eric Chouinard]],<ref>{{cite news|last1=Panaccio|first1=Tim|last2=Carchidi|first2=Sam|title=Slumping Flyers obtain Chouinard from Montreal|newspaper=Philadelphia Inquirer|date=January 30, 2003}}</ref> who currently is in the [[Grenoble]] [[Bruleurs de loups]] organization. His nephew, [[Marc Chouinard]], played in the NHL for the [[Mighty Ducks of Anaheim]], [[Minnesota Wild]] and [[Vancouver Canucks]].

==Career statistics==
===Regular season and playoffs===
{| border="0" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0" style="text-align:center; width:60em"
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
! colspan="5"|[[Regular season]]
! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"|
! colspan="5"|[[Playoffs]]
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! [[Season (sports)|Season]]
! Team
! League
! GP !! [[Goal (ice hockey)|G]] !! [[Assist (ice hockey)|A]] !! [[Point (ice hockey)|Pts]] !! [[Penalty (ice hockey)|PIM]]
! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM
|-
| [[1971–72 QMJHL season|1971–72]]
| [[Quebec Remparts]]
| [[Quebec Major Junior Hockey League|QMJHL]]
| 58 || 29 || 41 || 70 || 6
| — || — || — || — || —
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1972–73 QMJHL season|1972–73]]
| Quebec Remparts
| QMJHL
| 59 || 43 || 86 || 129 || 11
| — || — || — || — || —
|-
| [[1973–74 QMJHL season|1973–74]]
| Quebec Remparts
| QMJHL
| 62 || 75 || 85 || 160 || 22
| 4 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1974–75 NHL season|1974–75]]
| [[Atlanta Flames]]
| [[National Hockey League|NHL]]
| 5 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2
| — || — || — || — || —
|-
| [[1974–75 CHL season|1974–75]]
| [[Omaha Knights (1966–1975)|Omaha Knights]]
| [[Central Professional Hockey League|CHL]]
| 70 || 28 || 40 || 68 || 6
| 6 || 1 || 6 || 7 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1975–76 AHL season|1975–76]]
| [[Nova Scotia Voyageurs]]
| [[American Hockey League|AHL]]
| 70 || 40 || 40 || 80 || 14
| 9 || 6 || 9 || 15 || 0
|-
| [[1975–76 NHL season|1975–76]]
| Atlanta Flames
| NHL
| 4 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2
| 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1976–77 NHL season|1976–77]]
| Atlanta Flames
| NHL
| 80 || 17 || 33 || 50 || 8
| 3 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 0
|-
| [[1977–78 NHL season|1977–78]]
| Atlanta Flames
| NHL
| 73 || 28 || 30 || 58 || 8
| 2 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1978–79 NHL season|1978–79]]
| Atlanta Flames
| NHL
| 80 || 50 || 57 || 107 || 14
| 2 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 0
|-
| [[1979–80 NHL season|1979–80]]
| Atlanta Flames
| NHL
| 76 || 31 || 46 || 77 || 22
| 4 || 1 || 3 || 4 || 4
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1980–81 NHL season|1980–81]]
| [[Calgary Flames]]
| NHL
| 52 || 31 || 52 || 83 || 24
| 16 || 3 || 14 || 17 || 4
|-
| [[1981–82 NHL season|1981–82]]
| Calgary Flames
| NHL
| 64 || 23 || 57 || 80 || 12
| 3 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1982–83 NHL season|1982–83]]
| Calgary Flames
| NHL
| 80 || 13 || 59 || 72 || 18
| 9 || 1 || 6 || 7 || 4
|-
| [[1983–84 NHL season|1983–84]]
| [[St. Louis Blues]]
| NHL
| 64 || 12 || 34 || 46 || 10
| 5 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 0
|- bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| [[1984–85 IHL season|1984–85]]
| [[Peoria Rivermen (IHL)|Peoria Rivermen]]
| [[International Hockey League (1945–2001)|IHL]]
| 9 || 2 || 5 || 7 || 0
| — || — || — || — || —
|- bgcolor="#e0e0e0"
! colspan="3" | NHL totals
! 578 !! 205 !! 370 !! 575 !! 120
! 46 !! 9 !! 28 !! 37 !! 12
|}

==See also==
* [[Notable families in the NHL]]
* [[List of NHL players with 100-point seasons]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* {{icehockeystats}}

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