Bob Champoux
Encyclopedia
Robert Joseph Champoux is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey
goaltender
. He made his National Hockey League (NHL)
debut with the Detroit Red Wings
on March 29, 1964 when he replaced an injured Terry Sawchuk
in a 5–4 victory at Chicago Stadium
that evened the semifinal series against the Blackhawks
at one game apiece. After Sawchuk returned to play all the remaining matches in the Red Wings' Stanley Cup
playoff run, Champoux did not play in another NHL contest until nine years later when he registered a 2–11–3 record with the California Golden Seals
, the worst team in the league during the 1973–74 season. He spent the remainder of his professional hockey career in the minor league
s.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...
goaltender
Goaltender
In ice hockey, the goaltender is the player who defends his team's goal net by stopping shots of the puck from entering his team's net, thus preventing the opposing team from scoring...
. He made his National Hockey League (NHL)
National Hockey League
The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States...
debut with the Detroit Red Wings
Detroit Red Wings
The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York...
on March 29, 1964 when he replaced an injured Terry Sawchuk
Terry Sawchuk
Terrance Gordon Sawchuk was a Ukrainian-Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender who played 21 seasons in the National Hockey League for the Detroit Red Wings, Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Los Angeles Kings and New York Rangers.-Early life and playing career:Sawchuk was born and raised...
in a 5–4 victory at Chicago Stadium
Chicago Stadium
The Chicago Stadium was an indoor sports arena and theater in Chicago. It opened in 1929, and closed in 1994.-History:The Stadium hosted the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL from 1929–1994 and the Chicago Bulls of the NBA from 1967–1994....
that evened the semifinal series against the Blackhawks
Chicago Blackhawks
The Chicago Blackhawks are a professional ice hockey team based in Chicago, Illinois. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . They have won four Stanley Cup championships since their founding in 1926, most recently coming in 2009-10...
at one game apiece. After Sawchuk returned to play all the remaining matches in the Red Wings' Stanley Cup
Stanley Cup
The Stanley Cup is an ice hockey club trophy, awarded annually to the National Hockey League playoffs champion after the conclusion of the Stanley Cup Finals. It has been referred to as The Cup, Lord Stanley's Cup, The Holy Grail, or facetiously as Lord Stanley's Mug...
playoff run, Champoux did not play in another NHL contest until nine years later when he registered a 2–11–3 record with the California Golden Seals
California Golden Seals
The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League from 1967–76. Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals part-way through the 1967–68 season, and then to California Golden Seals in 1970. The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of...
, the worst team in the league during the 1973–74 season. He spent the remainder of his professional hockey career in the minor league
Minor league
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in...
s.
Regular season
| Season Season (sports) In an organized sports league, a season is the portion of one year in which regulated games of the sport are in session. For example, in Major League Baseball, one season lasts approximately from April 1 through October 1; in Association football, it is generally from August until May In an... |
Team | League | GP | W | L | T | MIN | GA Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
SO | GAA Goals against average Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender.... |
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| 1961–62 | Montreal Junior Canadiens | OHA Ontario Hockey League The Ontario Hockey League is one of the three Major Junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The league is for players aged 15-20.The OHL also operates under the Ontario Hockey Federation of Hockey Canada.... |
8 | 480 | 25 | 0 | 3.13 | |||
| 1962–63 | Saint-Jérôme Alouettes Saint-Jérôme Alouettes The Saint-Jérôme Alouettes were a junior ice hockey team that played in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec. The team originated during the late 1950s in the Quebec Junior Hockey League, and played there until 1969... |
QJHL Quebec Major Junior Hockey League The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League... |
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| 1963–64 | Cincinnati Wings Cincinnati Wings The Indianapolis Capitals/Cincinnati Wings were a professional ice hockey team that operated for one season in the Central Hockey League. Originally named the Indianapolis Capitals, the team started the 1963-64 season playing out of the Pepsi Coliseum in Indianapolis, but only 9 games into the... |
CHL | 60 | 10 | 44 | 5 | 3610 | 337 | 1 | 5.60 |
| 1963–64 | Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York... |
NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 |
| 1964–65 | Memphis Wings Memphis Wings The Memphis Wings were a professional ice hockey team in Memphis, Tennessee. They played from 1964-67 in the Central Professional Hockey League. As their name suggested, they were a farm team of the NHL's Detroit Red Wings.... |
CHL | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 240 | 16 | 0 | 4.00 |
| 1964–65 | Minneapolis Bruins Minneapolis Bruins The Minneapolis Bruins were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League from 1963 to 1965. Minneapolis operated as a farm team to the National Hockey League's Boston Bruins. The team originated as the Kingston Frontenacs of the Eastern Professional Hockey League, which... |
CHL | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 |
| 1964–65 1964–65 AHL season The 1964–65 AHL season was the 29th season of the American Hockey League. The league inaugurates the James H. Ellery Memorial Award for outstanding media coverage of the AHL.Nine teams played 72 games each in the schedule... |
Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL American Hockey League The American Hockey League is a 30-team professional ice hockey league based in the United States and Canada that serves as the primary developmental circuit for the National Hockey League... |
13 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 740 | 50 | 1 | 4.05 |
| 1965–66 1965–66 AHL season The 1965–66 AHL season was the 30th season of the American Hockey League. Nine teams played 72 games each in the schedule. The league played a limited interlocking schedule with the Western Hockey League which was repeated two seasons later. The Quebec Aces finished first overall in the regular... |
Pittsburgh Hornets | AHL | 8 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 412 | 21 | 1 | 3.06 |
| 1965–66 | Memphis Wings | CHL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 |
| 1966–67 | San Diego Gulls | WHL Western Hockey League (minor pro) The Western Hockey League was a minor pro ice hockey league that operated from 1952 to 1974. Managed for most of its history by Hockey Hall of Fame member Al Leader, it was created out of the merger of the Pacific Coast Hockey League and the Western Canada Senior Hockey League... |
20 | 7 | 11 | 1 | 1140 | 72 | 0 | 3.86 |
| 1967–68 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 33 | 15 | 16 | 2 | 1957 | 111 | 0 | 3.40 |
| 1968–69 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 37 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 2048 | 123 | 3 | 3.60 |
| 1969–70 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 4 | 0 | 4.00 |
| 1969–70 | Kansas City Blues Kansas City Blues (ice hockey) The Kansas City Blues were a minor-league hockey team based in Kansas City, Missouri that played in the Central Hockey League from 1967 to 1972, and again in the 1976-77 season, mainly as an affiliate of the in-state St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League. On February 21, 1971, Michel Plasse... |
CHL | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 120 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| 1969–70 | Dallas Black Hawks Dallas Black Hawks The Dallas Black Hawks were a minor-league professional ice hockey team in Dallas, Texas. They were a member of the Central Hockey League and played home games at State Fair Coliseum.... |
CHL | 25 | 8 | 16 | 1 | 1460 | 89 | 2 | 3.66 |
| 1970–71 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 120 | 6 | 0 | 3.00 |
| 1970–71 | Jacksonville Rockets Jacksonville Rockets The Jacksonville Rockets were a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They played in the Eastern Hockey League from 1964–1972, when they folded. They were the first professional hockey team to be based in Jacksonville or anywhere in Florida... |
EHL Eastern Hockey League -Eastern Amateur Hockey League :The league was founded in 1933 as the Eastern Amateur Hockey League . The league was founded by Thomas Lockhart, who served as its commissioner from 1933 to 1972... |
21 | 1260 | 112 | 0 | 5.33 | |||
| 1972–73 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 24 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1339 | 74 | 1 | 3.31 |
| 1973–74 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 120 | 8 | 0 | 4.00 |
| 1973–74 | California Golden Seals California Golden Seals The California Golden Seals were a team in the National Hockey League from 1967–76. Initially named California Seals, the team was renamed Oakland Seals part-way through the 1967–68 season, and then to California Golden Seals in 1970. The Seals were one of six teams added to the league as part of... |
NHL | 17 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 923 | 80 | 0 | 5.20 |
| 1973–74 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles Salt Lake Golden Eagles The Salt Lake Golden Eagles were a minor professional hockey team based in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1969 to 1994.They played in the Western Hockey League from 1969 to 1974, the Central Hockey League from 1974 to 1984 and the International Hockey League from 1984 to 1994... |
WHL | 44 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 2586 | 139 | 2 | 3.23 |
| 1974–75 | Syracuse Blazers Syracuse Blazers The Syracuse Blazers were a minor league hockey team that played in the Onondaga County War Memorial and New York State Fair Coliseum in Syracuse, New York.... |
NAHL | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 171 | 8 | 1 | 2.80 |
| 1974–75 | Winston-Salem Polar Twins Winston-Salem Polar Twins The Winston-Salem Polar Twins is a name held by two professional hockey franchises in Winston-Salem, NC. The first Polar Twins franchise operated in the 1970s before folding. They were followed by the Carolina Thunderbirds... |
SHL | 22 | 1287 | 91 | 0 | 4.24 | |||
| 1975–76 | Winston-Salem Polar Twins | SHL | 47 | 18 | 20 | 9 | 2770 | 161 | 0 | 3.49 |
| 1976–77 | Winston-Salem Polar Twins | SHL | 23 | 1269 | 78 | 1 | 3.69 | |||
| NHL totals | 17 | 2 | 11 | 3 | 923 | 80 | 0 | 5.20 | ||
Playoffs
| Season | Team | League | GP | W | L | T | MIN | GA Goal (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a goal is scored when the puck completely crosses the goal line between the two goal posts and below the goal crossbar. A goal awards one point to the team attacking the goal scored upon, regardless of which team the player who actually deflected the puck into the goal belongs to... |
SO Shutout In team sports, a shutout refers to a game in which one team prevents the opposing team from scoring. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.... |
GAA Goals against average Goals Against Average is a statistic used in ice hockey, water polo, lacrosse, and soccer that is the mean of goals allowed per game by a goaltender.... |
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| 1963–64 | Detroit Red Wings Detroit Red Wings The Detroit Red Wings are a professional ice hockey team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the Central Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League , and are one of the Original Six teams of the NHL, along with the Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, New York... |
NHL National Hockey League The National Hockey League is an unincorporated not-for-profit association which operates a major professional ice hockey league of 30 franchised member clubs, of which 7 are currently located in Canada and 23 in the United States... |
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 4 | 0 | 4.36 |
| 1967–68 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 306 | 12 | 0 | 2.35 |
| 1968–69 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 399 | 21 | 0 | 3.16 |
| 1972–73 | San Diego Gulls | WHL | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 214 | 10 | 1 | 2.80 |
| 1973–74 | Salt Lake Golden Eagles Salt Lake Golden Eagles The Salt Lake Golden Eagles were a minor professional hockey team based in Salt Lake City, Utah from 1969 to 1994.They played in the Western Hockey League from 1969 to 1974, the Central Hockey League from 1974 to 1984 and the International Hockey League from 1984 to 1994... |
WHL | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 140 | 10 | 0 | 4.29 |
| 1974–75 | Winston-Salem Polar Twins Winston-Salem Polar Twins The Winston-Salem Polar Twins is a name held by two professional hockey franchises in Winston-Salem, NC. The first Polar Twins franchise operated in the 1970s before folding. They were followed by the Carolina Thunderbirds... |
SHL | 7 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 422 | 30 | 0 | 4.27 |
| 1975–76 | Winston-Salem Polar Twins | SHL | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 214 | 18 | 0 | 5.05 |
| NHL Totals | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 4 | 0 | 4.36 | ||