Height: 5-9
Weight: 160
Shoot: L
Born: 19 Nov 1950, Labelle PQ
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Regular Season & Playoff Scoring Record (key)
| year | team | |||||||||||
| 1972-73 | Quebec | |||||||||||
| 1973-74 | Quebec | |||||||||||
| 1974-75 | Quebec | |||||||||||
| 1975-76 | Winnipeg | |||||||||||
| 1976-77 | Winnipeg | |||||||||||
| 1977-78 | Winnipeg | |||||||||||
| 1978-79 | Winnipeg | |||||||||||
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Excerpts from Zander Hollander's Guide to Pro Hockey, 1978-79 (by Reyn Davis)
A central figure in Winnipeg's drive to the WHA championship last spring ... Fiercely competitive individual ... had eight goals and five assists in nine playoff games on a line with two other foot-soldiers, Bill Lesuk and Lyle Moffat ... Nicknamed "The Golden Gorf" ... Owns La Brasserie Bistro, an outdoor pub, in St.-Jerome, Que, with business partners Michel Parizeau and Jacques Demers ... A hockey trivia buff whose major is the Montreal Canadiens ... Excellent team man |
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Mon Dieu! Guindon's Faults Few • by Reyn Davis • The Winnipeg Free Press • May 2, 1978
Peter Sullivan has discovered a chink in the armor-like reputation that Bobby Guindon can do everything well. And what can that be? What could he possibly be lacking? "Ask him how to say these three words — itinerary, Acapulco and executive," said Sullivan, "and you'll know what I mean." For the 28-year-old Guindon, whose first language is French, the three words Sullivan mentioned are jungles to pronounce. Just about as tough as it is for your basic English-speaking Canadian to say l'oeil — the eye — acceptably in French. But the point is clear. The strengths of Bobby Guindon are obvious. The frailties, obscure. Once too expensive for Winnipeg Jets — they sent him home to Montreal and he practiced on an outdoor rink until they felt they could afford his modest salary — he has become entrenched in the team's establishment. "We've been going down a one-way street together," said his coach, Larry Hillman. "The more responsibility I give him, the more he responds." Kim Clackson considers Gulndon — the Golden Gorf — the heart of the team. Lyle Moffat agrees but only to a certain extent. "A heart has many valves," he reminded, as if quoting from Confuscious. This is Guindon's third season with the Jets and by far his best. He appeared in 78 games as a checking left winger, center, right winger and penalty killer, and he contributed 20 goals and 22 assists. One of those goals was scored on the night of February 16 in Springfield, Mass., pulling the Jets into a 1-1 tie with New England Whalers, and setting the stage for Willy Lindstrom's goal in overtime. Skating down the right side Guindon fired a shot that Rick Ley sprawled to block. Without stopping Guindon neatly gained control of the puck again and snapped a high shot that sailed over Al Smith's glove. "That goal showed me a lot of determination," said Hillman. The win virtually dashed the Whalers' chances of catching the Jets. Now, impatiently waiting for the finals to start, Guindon is on the Doughnut Line with Moffat and Bill Lesuk. It's a frightful combination of three left wingers, hence no centre ... like a doughnut. Guindon has been charged with the responsibilities of centering them. So far, the Jets have played five games and the line has produced elght goals and eight assists with Guindon leading the way with four and four. The line will certainly be intact when the finals begin. And that's the ultimate challenge for Guindon, a man whose style to success is without frills but wrapped in the soiled blue collar of a honest worker who considers hockey his labor of love. |
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