How do y'all rate Michel Goulet? I saw him play a bit with Quebec and a bit with Chicago, but much of his salad-years was a bit before my time, or I only saw the occasional game.
For the six years from '82 through '88 he was third in NHL goals to only Gretzky and Kurri (and sixth in total points).
What always impresses me about his stat-line is his goal-scoring consistency:
1981-82: 42
1982-83: 57
1983-84: 56
1984-85: 55 (69 games)
1985-86: 53
1986-87: 49
1987-88: 48
He ends up with four-straight 50-goal seasons, which is awesome, but actually he was only three goals away from having six straight.
The Nords drop into 4th/5th place circa 1987 and 1988 didn't affect his productivity much, but after they started bottoming out in 1988-89 (in which rookie Joe Sakic matched Goulet's scoring pace), he stopped scoring as much. In 1989-90 the Nords had one of the worst seasons in history, with Goulet's production way down.
The Nords had some limited playoff success in the 80s and Goulet seems to have kept up pretty good production therein -- I count 34 playoff goals for Quebec in 66 games. (Pretty poor in '83 and '84, though -- 2 goals in 13 games? What happened?)
He was traded to Chicago in March of 1990. He had four pretty good seasons there, but never got the elite scoring touch back. I was under the impression that he was pretty happy in Chicago, however -- the team was really good, and he seemed to adapt to a bit more of a two-way style.
Goulet played for Team Canada at the Canada Cup in '84 and in '87. I think he played with Gretzky in '84, and turned in 11 points in 8 games.
His career was famously ended by a terrible injury at the Montreal forum:
Just wondered what people's thoughts are about the man known as 'Gou'.
NOTE: I had totally forgotten (until I looked at his career stats) that Goulet had played 1978-79 in the WHA for Birmingham. He was 2nd in team scoring to Rick Vaive. Also on that team were Craig Hartsburg and Rob Ramage... as well as an elderly Paul Henderson!
For the six years from '82 through '88 he was third in NHL goals to only Gretzky and Kurri (and sixth in total points).
What always impresses me about his stat-line is his goal-scoring consistency:
1981-82: 42
1982-83: 57
1983-84: 56
1984-85: 55 (69 games)
1985-86: 53
1986-87: 49
1987-88: 48
He ends up with four-straight 50-goal seasons, which is awesome, but actually he was only three goals away from having six straight.
The Nords drop into 4th/5th place circa 1987 and 1988 didn't affect his productivity much, but after they started bottoming out in 1988-89 (in which rookie Joe Sakic matched Goulet's scoring pace), he stopped scoring as much. In 1989-90 the Nords had one of the worst seasons in history, with Goulet's production way down.
The Nords had some limited playoff success in the 80s and Goulet seems to have kept up pretty good production therein -- I count 34 playoff goals for Quebec in 66 games. (Pretty poor in '83 and '84, though -- 2 goals in 13 games? What happened?)
He was traded to Chicago in March of 1990. He had four pretty good seasons there, but never got the elite scoring touch back. I was under the impression that he was pretty happy in Chicago, however -- the team was really good, and he seemed to adapt to a bit more of a two-way style.
Goulet played for Team Canada at the Canada Cup in '84 and in '87. I think he played with Gretzky in '84, and turned in 11 points in 8 games.
His career was famously ended by a terrible injury at the Montreal forum:
Just wondered what people's thoughts are about the man known as 'Gou'.
NOTE: I had totally forgotten (until I looked at his career stats) that Goulet had played 1978-79 in the WHA for Birmingham. He was 2nd in team scoring to Rick Vaive. Also on that team were Craig Hartsburg and Rob Ramage... as well as an elderly Paul Henderson!
