Daniel Berthiaume
Encyclopedia
Daniel J. Berthiaume is a Canadian
former professional ice hockey
goaltender
who played six seasons in the National Hockey League
(NHL).
in junior hockey, playing for the Drummondville Voltigeurs
and Chicoutimi Saguenéens
of the QMJHL. He was drafted 60th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft
and posted an impressive 18-7-3 record in 31 games during his rookie
NHL season of 1986-87. During his tenure with the Winnipeg Jets, he formed one half of the goaltending duo "Pokey and the Bandit" with Pokey Reddick
. He later played for the NHL's Minnesota North Stars
, Los Angeles Kings
, Boston Bruins
and Ottawa Senators
. In all, Berthiaume played in a total of 215 regular season NHL games during his career, posting a record of 81-91-21 with a goals against average
of 3.67. He also appeared in 14 NHL playoff games, all with Winnipeg.
After making his final NHL appearance with the Ottawa Senators during the 1993-94 season, he spent most of the remainder of his career in the ECHL
with the Roanoke Express
, where he spent seven seasons in three stints and often split duties with Dave Gagnon
. He also played for the ECHL's Wheeling Thunderbirds
, the Detroit Vipers
of the International Hockey League, and the Central Texas Stampede
of the WPHL
. He played his last season with the Port Huron Beacons
of the United Hockey League
before retiring in 2005.
Berthiaume also played professional roller hockey
, tending goal for Roller Hockey International
's New Jersey Rockin Rollers
in 1994, Detroit Mustangs
in 1995, and Philadelphia Bulldogs
in 1996.
in the United Hockey League
at the start of their 2005-06 season., but on February 6, 2006 it was announced that Berthiaume would become the head coach, replacing the Jim Wiley
who lost his job in mid-season. He now coaches the Virginia Military Institute
Hockey team.
, where he owns and operates Captain Bert's Fishin' Charters on Smith Mountain Lake
, Virginia
, a freshwater striped bass
fishery. He is married and has three sons.
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
former professional ice hockey
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...
who played six seasons in the National Hockey League
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...
(NHL).
Playing career
Known as "The Bandit" during his hockey career, Berthiaume was a standout goaltenderGoaltender
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...
in junior hockey, playing for the Drummondville Voltigeurs
Drummondville Voltigeurs
The Drummondville Voltigeurs are a junior ice hockey team of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The franchise was originally granted for the 1982–83 season, and are based out of Drummondville, Quebec. The team plays its home games at the Centre Marcel Dionne...
and Chicoutimi Saguenéens
Chicoutimi Saguenéens
The Chicoutimi Saguenéens are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The team is based out of Chicoutimi, Quebec . The team plays its home games at the Centre Georges-Vézina.-History:...
of the QMJHL. He was drafted 60th overall by the Winnipeg Jets in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft
1985 NHL Entry Draft
The 1985 NHL Entry Draft was the first draft outside of Montreal. The event was held at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre in Toronto, Ontario, and attended by 7,000 fans. The National Hockey League teams selected 252 players eligible for entry into professional ranks, in the reverse order of the...
and posted an impressive 18-7-3 record in 31 games during his rookie
Rookie
Rookie is a term for a person who is in his or her first year of play of their sport or has little or no professional experience. The term also has the more general meaning of anyone new to a profession, training or activity Rookie is a term for a person who is in his or her first year of play of...
NHL season of 1986-87. During his tenure with the Winnipeg Jets, he formed one half of the goaltending duo "Pokey and the Bandit" with Pokey Reddick
Pokey Reddick
Eldon "Pokey" Wade Reddick is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender in the National Hockey League from 1986–87 to 1993–94.-Playing career:...
. He later played for the NHL's Minnesota North Stars
Minnesota North Stars
The Minnesota North Stars were a professional ice hockey team in the National Hockey League for 26 seasons, from 1967 to 1993. The North Stars played their home games at the Met Center in Bloomington, and the team's colors for most of its history were green, yellow, gold and white...
, Los Angeles Kings
Los Angeles Kings
The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League...
, Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins
The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League . The team has been in existence since 1924, and is the league's third-oldest team and its oldest in the...
and Ottawa Senators
Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators are a professional ice hockey team based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League...
. In all, Berthiaume played in a total of 215 regular season NHL games during his career, posting a record of 81-91-21 with a goals against average
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....
of 3.67. He also appeared in 14 NHL playoff games, all with Winnipeg.
After making his final NHL appearance with the Ottawa Senators during the 1993-94 season, he spent most of the remainder of his career in the ECHL
ECHL
The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...
with the Roanoke Express
Roanoke Express
The Roanoke Express were a team in the ECHL from 1993 until 2004. Home games were played at the Roanoke Civic Center in Roanoke, Virginia.-History:...
, where he spent seven seasons in three stints and often split duties with Dave Gagnon
Dave Gagnon
David Anthony Gagnon is a retired professional ice hockey goaltender. Dave only played 2 games in NHL, with the Detroit Red Wings, posting an official record of 0–1–0 and goals against average of 10.27....
. He also played for the ECHL's Wheeling Thunderbirds
Wheeling Nailers
The Wheeling Nailers are an ECHL ice hockey team based in Wheeling, West Virginia. They are the ECHL affiliate of the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL....
, the Detroit Vipers
Detroit Vipers
The Detroit Vipers was an International Hockey League team. The team was founded in 1994, and played at The Palace of Auburn Hills.-Beginning:...
of the International Hockey League, and the Central Texas Stampede
Central Texas Stampede
The Central Texas Stampede are a defunct minor league professional ice hockey team which was located in Belton, Texas. They played in the Western Professional Hockey League for five seasons, from 1996 to 2001. The team folded during the fifth season of its operation...
of the WPHL
Western Professional Hockey League
The Western Professional Hockey League is a defunct minor professional ice hockey league.It operated in the United States from 1996 to 2001, with teams in the southern United States, mainly Texas. The league started with six teams in the 1996-1997 season and grew to 18 teams in 1999-2000...
. He played his last season with the Port Huron Beacons
Port Huron Beacons
The Port Huron Beacons were a minor league professional ice hockey team in the United Hockey League that played from 2002 to 2005. The team was based in Port Huron, Michigan, and played at the McMorran Arena. The Beacons departed in 2005 to become the Roanoke Valley Vipers.President, General...
of the United Hockey League
United Hockey League
The United Hockey League was a low-level professional ice hockey league , with teams in the United States...
before retiring in 2005.
Berthiaume also played professional roller hockey
Roller hockey
Roller Hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using skates with wheels. The term "Roller Hockey" is often used interchangeably to refer to two variant forms chiefly differentiated by the type of skate used. There is traditional "Roller Hockey," played with quad roller skates, and...
, tending goal for Roller Hockey International
Roller Hockey International
Roller Hockey International was a professional inline hockey league that operated in North America from 1993 to 1999. It was the first major professional league for inline hockey....
's New Jersey Rockin Rollers
New Jersey Rockin Rollers
The New Jersey Rockin Rollers were a professional roller hockey team based in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States that played in Roller Hockey International. In 1997 they were coached by legendary roller hockey guru Bob Antolos....
in 1994, Detroit Mustangs
Detroit Mustangs
The Detroit Mustangs was an American soccer club based in Detroit, Michigan that was a member of the American Soccer League. The Mustangs began their first season known simply as Detroit S.C..-Year-by-year:...
in 1995, and Philadelphia Bulldogs
Philadelphia Bulldogs
The Philadelphia Bulldogs were an inline hockey team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They were members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference of Roller Hockey International . They were part of the 1994 RHI Expansion.-See also:...
in 1996.
Coaching career
Berthiaume was the assistant coach of the Roanoke Valley VipersRoanoke Valley Vipers
The Roanoke Valley Vipers were a professional ice hockey team located in Roanoke, Virginia. They were formed for the 2005-06 season, mainly to fill the gap after the ECHL's Roanoke Express disbanded and to provide a travel partner near the Richmond RiverDogs. They were a member of the United...
in the United Hockey League
United Hockey League
The United Hockey League was a low-level professional ice hockey league , with teams in the United States...
at the start of their 2005-06 season., but on February 6, 2006 it was announced that Berthiaume would become the head coach, replacing the Jim Wiley
Jim Wiley
James Thomas Wiley is a professional ice hockey center who spent parts of four seasons in the National Hockey League between 1972 and 1977...
who lost his job in mid-season. He now coaches the Virginia Military Institute
Virginia Military Institute
The Virginia Military Institute , located in Lexington, Virginia, is the oldest state-supported military college and one of six senior military colleges in the United States. Unlike any other military college in the United States—and in keeping with its founding principles—all VMI students are...
Hockey team.
Personal life
He currently lives in Hardy, VirginiaHardy, Virginia
Hardy is an unincorporated community lying both in Bedford County and Franklin County, Virginia, United States, about twenty miles southeast of Roanoke. The Booker T. Washington National Monument commemorates where Booker T. Washington was born in 1856....
, where he owns and operates Captain Bert's Fishin' Charters on Smith Mountain Lake
Smith Mountain Lake
Smith Mountain Lake is a large reservoir in the Roanoke Region of Virginia, located southeast of the City of Roanoke and southwest of Lynchburg. The lake was created in 1963 by the Smith Mountain Dam impounding the Roanoke River. The majority of the south shore of the lake lies in Franklin County...
, Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
, a freshwater striped bass
Striped bass
The striped bass is the state fish of Maryland, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and the state saltwater fish of New York, Virginia, and New Hampshire...
fishery. He is married and has three sons.
Career statistics
Season Team Lge GP Min GA EN SO GAA W L T SV SV%
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1983-84 Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL 28 1562 131 3 0 5.03 0 0 0 0 0.000
1984-85 Chicoutimi Sagueneens QMJHL 56 3168 198 1 2 3.75 40 11 2 0 0.000
1984-85 Drummondville Voltigeurs QMJHL 3 179 17 2 0 5.70 1 2 0 0 0.000
1985-86 Chicoutimi Sagueneens QMJHL 66 3718 286 4 1 4.62 34 29 3 0 0.000
1986-87 Sherbrooke Canadiens AHL 7 420 23 0 0 3.29 4 3 0 173 0.883
1986-87 Winnipeg Jets NHL 31 1758 93 1 1 3.17 18 7 3 716 0.885
1987-88 Winnipeg Jets NHL 56 3010 176 0 2 3.51 22 19 7 1311 0.882
1988-89 Moncton Hawks AHL 21 1083 76 2 0 4.21 6 9 2 553 0.879
1988-89 Winnipeg Jets NHL 9 443 44 2 0 5.96 0 8 0 209 0.826
1989-90 Winnipeg Jets NHL 24 1387 86 2 1 3.72 10 11 3 581 0.871
1989-90 Minnesota North Stars NHL 5 240 14 0 0 3.50 1 3 0 90 0.865
1990-91 Los Angeles Kings NHL 37 2119 117 1 1 3.31 20 11 4 969 0.892
1991-92 Boston Bruins NHL 8 401 21 0 0 3.14 1 4 2 135 0.865
1991-92 Los Angeles Kings NHL 19 979 66 2 0 4.04 7 10 1 475 0.878
1992-93 Ottawa Senators NHL 25 1326 95 3 0 4.30 2 17 1 644 0.871
1993-94 Ottawa Senators NHL 1 1 2 0 0 120.00 0 0 0 0 0.000
1993-94 Adirondack Red Wings AHL 11 552 35 1 0 3.80 7 2 0 243 0.874
1993-94 Prince Edward Island Sena AHL 30 1640 130 0 0 4.76 8 16 3 862 0.869
1994-95 Providence Bruins AHL 2 126 7 0 0 3.32 0 1 1 47 0.870
1994-95 Roanoke Express ECHL 21 1196 47 3 0 2.36 15 4 2 532 0.919
1994-95 Wheeling Thunderbirds ECHL 10 599 41 1 0 4.10 6 1 1 267 0.867
1995-96 Detroit Vipers IHL 7 401 19 0 2 2.84 4 3 0 168 0.898
1995-96 Roanoke Express ECHL 39 2108 112 4 2 3.19 22 13 3 1090 0.907
1996-97 Central-Texas Stampede WPHL 54 3034 171 5 2 3.38 30 20 0 1533 0.900
1997-98 Roanoke Express ECHL 30 1711 74 4 2 2.59 17 8 3 740 0.909
1998-99 Roanoke Express ECHL 35 2105 97 4 2 2.77 18 12 5 959 0.908
1999-00 Roanoke Express ECHL 37 2103 87 0 2 2.48 21 12 4 982 0.919
2000-01 Roanoke Express ECHL 45 2604 104 2 4 2.40 26 17 1 1161 0.918
2001-02 Roanoke Express ECHL 51 2847 129 2 4 2.72 23 17 6 1344 0.912
2002-03 Greensboro Generals ECHL 53 2998 145 4 2 2.90 30 14 5 1563 0.915
2003-04 Greensboro Generals ECHL 43 2518 151 2 0 3.60 23 18 1 1369 0.901
2004-05 Port Huron Beacons UHL 30 1600 95 1 0 3.56 7 17 3 818 0.896
Roller hockey
Season Team Lge GP G A Pts PIM
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1994 New Jersey Rockin' Roller RHI 19 0 1 1 12
1995 Detroit Motor City Mustan RHI 20 0 6 6 17
1996 Philadelphia Bulldogs RHI 15 0 0 0 0