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| 1974 NHL DRAFT PICK |
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Mario Lessard
Selected in ninth round
No. 154 overall by Los Angeles Kings
Born
June 25, 1954
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Goaltender
Height: 5-9 Weight: 177
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| BEFORE THE DRAFT |
Last Team:
Sherbrooke (QMJHL)
Birthplace: East Broughton, Quebec (Canada)
Hometown:
East Broughton, Quebec |
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| PRE-DRAFT
STATISTICS | | Year |
Team | League |
GP | W-L-T |
GAA | SO |
SV% | | 1969-70 |
Sherbrooke | QMJHL |
9 | n/a |
7.32 | 0 |
n/a | | 1970-71 |
Sherbrooke | QMJHL |
-- | -- |
-- | -- |
-- | | 1971-72 |
Sherbrooke | QMJHL |
17 | n/a |
4.24 | 2 |
n/a | | 1972-73 |
Sherbrooke | QMJHL |
37 | n/a |
4.43 | 0 |
n/a | | 1973-74 |
Sherbrooke | QMJHL |
36 | n/a |
5.05 | 0 |
n/a |
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| NHL CAREER |
Debut: October 26, 1978 (Buffalo at Los
Angeles)
Numbers: 1 (Los Angeles)
Stanley
Cup: Never won. Status: Retired 1984 |
| CAREER NHL STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP |
W-L-T | GAA |
SO | SV% |
| 1978-1983 |
Los Angeles | 240 |
92-97-39 | 3.74 |
9 | n/a |
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| CAREER NHL PLAYOFF STATISTICS |
| Years | Teams |
GP | W-L |
GAA |
SO | SV% |
| 1979-1982 |
Los Angeles | 20 |
6-12 | 4.38 | 0 |
n/a |
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NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
NHL All-Star Second Team: 1980-81 (Los Angeles)
All-Star Game:
1981 (Los Angeles)
Los Angeles Libby Award (MVP): 1980-81
Los
Angeles Rookie of Year: 1978-79
Los Angeles Records: Most
victories in one season (35 in 1980-81)
NHL Wins Leader: 1980-81 (Los Angeles) (35 wins)
Miscellaneous: Had shutout with 18 saves in his
first NHL game. ... Led all rookie goalies with 3.10 GAA and four shutouts in
1978-79. .... Set Los Angeles record (since broken) for assists in one season
by a goaltender with two in 1978-79. ... Finished sixth in 1978-79 Calder
Trophy voting. ... Yielded Mike Gartner's first NHL goal on Oct. 16, 1979. ...
Recorded first shared shutout in Los Angeles history, a feat he achieved with
Doug Keans in 3-0 victory over Boston on Feb. 20, 1980. ... Named NHL Player
of Week for week ending March 14, 1982. During that week he shut out Colorado
and N.Y. Islanders. ... Missed part of 1982-83 season with groin injury
suffered in February 1983. ... Released by Los Angeles organization in August
1984. |
| NON-NHL CAREER |
Post-Draft Teams: Saginaw (IHL); Fort Worth (CHL);
Springfield (AHL); Birmingham (CHL); New Haven (AHL)
NON-NHL
AWARDS AND HONORS
IHL Turner Cup: 1977 (Saginaw)
IHL All-Star First Team: 1976-77 (Saginaw)
AHL All-Star Second Team: 1977-78 (Springfield)
WHA Draft Pick: 1974 (by Quebec, No. 157 overall in Round 11)
AHL Playoffs GAA Leader: 1978 (Springfield) (2.51)
AHL Playoffs Shutouts Leader: 1978 (Springfield) (1 shutout)
IHL Goals-Against Average Leader: 1976-77 (Saginaw) (3.47 GAA)
IHL Shutouts Leader: 1974-75 (Saginaw) (4 shutouts, tie)
IHL Playoffs Shutouts Leader: 1975 (Saginaw) (2), 1977 (Sag.) (1)
IHL Playoffs Goals-Against Average Leader: 1976 (Saginaw) (2.58), 1977
(Saginaw) (2.95)
CHL Playoffs Goalie Games Leader: 1983 (Birmingham) (11 GP)
CHL Playoffs Minutes Leader: 1983 (Birmingham) (637 minutes)
1976-77: Played on IHL regular-season champion (Saginaw).
Miscellaneous: Was named as alternate goalie for Canada's 1981 Canada
Cup team, but did not play in tournament. ... Loaned by Los Angeles to
Minnesota organization on Feb. 2, 1983, so he could finish the 1982-83 season
with the North Stars' CHL affiliate in Birmingham. The move was made as a
condition of the trade in which Minnesota sent Markus Mattsson to Los Angeles
in exchange for a 1985 third-round pick (Stephane Roy) on Feb. 1, 1983. ...
Idolized Rogie Vachon as a child. Ironically, it was Vachon, then an assistant
coach, who told Lessard he was no longer of any value to the Kings early in
the 1983-84 season. ... The rink in his hometown of East Broughton, Quebec,
was named Mario Lessard Arena in his honor.
Personal: One of 12 children, but the only one in the family who played
hockey. ... Son of a truck driver from East Broughton, Quebec. |
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SNAPSHOT '74 | | Total Selected: |
246 | | Forwards: |
138 | | Defense: |
84 | | Goaltenders: |
24 | | Major Junior: |
171 | | College Players: |
44 |
| Canadian: |
200 |
| Euro-Canadian: |
0 | | USA Citizens: |
40 | | U.S.-Born: |
39 |
| European: |
6 |
| Reached NHL: |
98 |
| Won Stanley Cup: |
15 | | Hall of Fame: |
2 |
| All-Star Game: |
21 |
| Year-end All-Star: |
5 |
| Olympians: |
5 |
| Picks Traded: |
13 |
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