Jean-Philippe Lamoureux
Encyclopedia
Jean-Philippe Lamoureux (born August 10, 1984) is an American
professional ice hockey
goaltender. He was not drafted in the NHL Draft and is currently playing for the HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
of the Austrian Hockey League
.
, in the United States Hockey League
, a junior ice hockey
league.
He then played four years of college hockey
at the University of North Dakota
(2004–08), including a senior season that saw him earn a Hobey Baker Award
nomination while leading the Fighting Sioux to the NCAA Frozen Four. Lamoureux is second all-time in school history with a 2.14 GAA
, .920 save percentage
and ten shutouts.
league, where he was named the league’s goaltender of the year. He also set an ECHL
record with eight shutouts. That year, the Aces advanced to the Kelly Cup
Championship where they were later defeated in 7 games by the South Carolina Stingrays
.
On July 30, 2009, Jean-Philippe was then signed by the Buffalo Sabres
to a one-year contract for the 2009-10 season. He was assigned to the Sabres AHL affiliate, the Portland Pirates
for the duration of the season and in 31 games posted 14 wins. Immediately proceeding the Pirates elimination from the Calder Cup
playoffs, J.P was recalled to the Sabres reserve squad for the playoffs
that year. He was not resigned by the Sabres organization and went on to sign with the Calgary Flames
AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat, on July 22, 2010.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
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. He was not drafted in the NHL Draft and is currently playing for the HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
HDD Olimpija Ljubljana
HDD Tilia Olimpija Ljubljana is a Slovenian professional ice hockey team that plays in the Erste Bank Hockey League. They play their home games at Dvorana Tivoli in Ljubljana. Olimpija has won 13 Yugoslav Championships and 11 Slovenian championships. They won 10 consecutive times from 1995 to 2004...
of the Austrian Hockey League
Austrian Hockey League
The Austrian Hockey League , called the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga for sponsorship reasons, is the highest-level ice hockey league in Austria.-History:...
.
Amateur
Lamoureux started his career playing three seasons with the Lincoln StarsLincoln Stars
The Lincoln Stars are a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team playing in the West Division of the United States Hockey League .The Stars' home ice is the Ice Box, on the Nebraska State Fair grounds and adjacent to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln....
, in the United States Hockey League
United States Hockey League
The United States Hockey League is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States. The USHL has 16 member teams located in the Midwestern United States, consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger...
, a junior ice hockey
Junior ice hockey
Junior hockey is a catch-all term used to describe various levels of ice hockey competition for players generally between 16 and 20 years of age...
league.
He then played four years of college hockey
College hockey
College hockey refers to ice hockey played between colleges with their teams composed of enrolled students. College hockey is played in Canada and the United States, though leagues outside of North America exist....
at the University of North Dakota
University of North Dakota
The University of North Dakota is a public university in Grand Forks, North Dakota, USA. Established by the Dakota Territorial Assembly in 1883, six years before the establishment of the state of North Dakota, UND is the oldest and largest university in the state and enrolls over 14,000 students. ...
(2004–08), including a senior season that saw him earn a Hobey Baker Award
Hobey Baker Award
The Hobey Baker Award is an annual award given to the top National Collegiate Athletic Association men's ice hockey player.It is named for hockey player and World War I veteran Hobey Baker, who played collegiately at Princeton University and learned the game at St...
nomination while leading the Fighting Sioux to the NCAA Frozen Four. Lamoureux is second all-time in school history with a 2.14 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....
, .920 save percentage
Save percentage
Save percentage is an ice hockey and lacrosse statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops...
and ten shutouts.
Professional
Lamoureux spent one season for the Alaska Aces in the East Coast Hockey League, a mid-level professional ice hockeyProfessional ice hockey
Professional ice hockey has existed since the early 1900s. From the first professional ice hockey league based out of Michigan in the United States, it quickly grew into Canada and to many other countries, as diverse as Switzerland, Ukraine, the United Kingdom or Austria.- Canada :Professional...
league, where he was named the league’s goaltender of the year. He also set an ECHL
ECHL
The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States...
record with eight shutouts. That year, the Aces advanced to the Kelly Cup
Kelly Cup
The Patrick J. Kelly Cup goes to the play-off champion of the ECHL. The Kelly Cup has been awarded to teams since 1997. Prior to 1997, the playoff winner was awarded the Riley Cup. The current cup is named after Patrick J. Kelly, the league's first commissioner. The cup is loaned to the winning...
Championship where they were later defeated in 7 games by the South Carolina Stingrays
South Carolina Stingrays
The South Carolina Stingrays are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in North Charleston, South Carolina. The Stingrays play in the South Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. They play their home games at the North Charleston Coliseum. The Carolina Ice Palace, also located in...
.
On July 30, 2009, Jean-Philippe was then signed by the Buffalo Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League .-Founding and early success: 1970-71—1980-81:...
to a one-year contract for the 2009-10 season. He was assigned to the Sabres AHL affiliate, the Portland Pirates
Portland Pirates
The Portland Pirates is a minor professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They are the top affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. They play in the Cumberland County Civic Center in downtown Portland, Maine. The franchise was previously known as the...
for the duration of the season and in 31 games posted 14 wins. Immediately proceeding the Pirates elimination from the Calder Cup
Calder Cup
The Calder Cup is awarded annually to the playoff champion of the American Hockey League. The trophy is the world's second oldest continuous professional ice hockey championship, having first been awarded in 1937 following the 1936-37 AHL season, and continuously being awarded every year.The cup...
playoffs, J.P was recalled to the Sabres reserve squad for the playoffs
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...
that year. He was not resigned by the Sabres organization and went on to sign with the Calgary Flames
Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames are a professional ice hockey team based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League . The club is the third major-professional ice hockey team to represent the city of Calgary, following the...
AHL affiliate, the Abbotsford Heat, on July 22, 2010.
Personal
Jean-Philippe's younger sisters Monique and Jocelyn were members of the silver medal winning US women's hockey team at the Vancouver Olympics.Career stats
| Regular season | Playoffs | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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/OT | MIN | GA | 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.... |
SV% Save percentage Save percentage is an ice hockey and lacrosse statistic that represents the percentage of shots on goal a goaltender stops... |
GP | W | L | MIN | GA | SO | GAA | SV% | ||
| 2001–02 | Lincoln Stars Lincoln Stars The Lincoln Stars are a Tier 1 junior ice hockey team playing in the West Division of the United States Hockey League .The Stars' home ice is the Ice Box, on the Nebraska State Fair grounds and adjacent to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.... |
USHL United States Hockey League The United States Hockey League is the top junior ice hockey league in the United States. The USHL has 16 member teams located in the Midwestern United States, consisting of players who are 20 years of age and younger... |
31 | 20 | 8 | 1 | 1758 | 66 | 6 | 2.25 | .917 | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2002–03 | Linclon Stars | USHL | 31 | 22 | 8 | 1 | 1968 | 71 | 4 | 2.16 | .917 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2003–04 | Lincoln Stars | USHL | 50 | 22 | 23 | 3 | 2874 | 134 | 3 | 2.80 | .918 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2004–05 | University of North Dakota | WCHA Western Collegiate Hockey Association The Western Collegiate Hockey Association is a college athletic conference which operates over a wide area of the Midwestern and Western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I as an ice hockey-only conference.... |
18 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 1043 | 38 | 0 | 2.19 | .914 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2005–06 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 14 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 734 | 32 | 1 | 2.61 | .911 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2006–07 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 37 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 2184 | 88 | 3 | 2.42 | .913 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2007–08 | University of North Dakota | WCHA | 42 | 27 | 11 | 4 | 2508 | 73 | 6 | 1.75 | .932 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| 2008–09 | Alaska Aces | ECHL ECHL The ECHL is a mid-level professional ice hockey league based in Princeton, New Jersey with teams scattered across the United States... |
51 | 33 | 16 | 2 | 3707 | 117 | 8 | 2.29 | .923 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 1263 | 41 | 4 | 1.95 | .934 | ||
| 2009–10 2009–10 AHL season The 2009–10 AHL season was the 74th season of the American Hockey League. Twenty-nine teams played 80 regular-season games each from October 2 to April 11... |
Portland Pirates Portland Pirates The Portland Pirates is a minor professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League. They are the top affiliate of the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League. They play in the Cumberland County Civic Center in downtown Portland, Maine. The franchise was previously known as the... |
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... |
31 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1750 | 87 | 2 | 2.98 | .894 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 207 | 10 | 0 | 2.90 | .900 | ||
| AHL totals | 31 | 14 | 12 | 2 | 1750 | 87 | 2 | 2.98 | .894 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 207 | 10 | 0 | 2.90 | .900 | ||||