BOUCHERVILLE, Que. – Scorer Michel Goulet and goaltender (King) Richard Brodeur will be among the five people inducted into the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League Hall of Fame in 2012.
Former defencemen Steve Duchesne and Pierre Sevigny and builder Charles Henry will also go into the Hall in a ceremony April 4 in Montreal.
Goulet was one of the most prolific scorers of the 1980s, piling up 548 goals and 604 assists in 1,089 NHL games with the Quebec Noridiques and Chicago Blackhawks. The Hockey Hall of Famer had his No. 16 jersey retired by the Nordiques in 1995. In two QMJHL seasons with the Quebec Remparts, he had 90 goals and 80 assists in 109 games.
Brodeur was a standout goaltender who helped the defunct Cornwall Royals to a league championship in 1972. He played for the Nordiques in the World Hockey Association from 1972 to 1979, then moved to the NHL where he led the Vancouver Canucks to the 1982 Stanley Cup final.
Duchesne was an all-star defenceman during his three seasons with the Drummondville Voltigeurs in the 1980s, setting a team record for a rearguard with 81 points in 1984-85. He played 1,113 NHL games with Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Quebec, St. Louis, Ottawa and Detroit, where he won a Stanley Cup in 2002.
Sevigny was a star defenceman in the early 1980s with Chicoutimi, Quebec and Trois-Rivieres who is not to be confused with the left winger of the same name who played for the Montreal Canadiens in the 1990s. Sevigny collected 318 points in 256 QMJHL games. In 1982 he set a playoff record with 40 points that stood for 15 years.
Henry joined the Hull (now Gatineau) Olympiques franchise when it was purchased by Wayne Gretzky in 1985 and he served as general manager and governor of the club until 2010. During his reign, the team won seven league titles and a Memorial Cup in 1997. They made the playoffs in 27 consecutive seasons.
Henry was one of the league’s best known and influential managers known for finding star players such as Luc Robitaille, Jeremy Roenick, Jose Theodore and Claude Giroux, as well as coaches Pat Burns, Alain Vigneault and Claude Julien.
The inductees were chosen by six-member selection committee.
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