Michel Picard

Michel Daniel Picard (born November 7, 1969) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. Picard played in the National Hockey League with the Hartford Whalers, San Jose Sharks, Ottawa Senators, St. Louis Blues, Edmonton Oilers, and Philadelphia Flyers. , he serves as an amateur scout for the Blues.

Playing career As a youth, Picard played in the 1981 and 1982 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Beauport, Quebec City.

Picard began his career playing for Trois-Rivières Draveurs in the QMJHL, where he established himself as a scoring force who was also tough and hard hitting. His final year there he scored 140 points in 66 games.

Picard was drafted by the Whalers in the 9th round, 178th overall, in the 1989 NHL entry draft. He met with great success in the minor leagues, leading the American Hockey League with a franchise-record 56 goals for the Springfield Indians in 1991, while leading the team to its final Calder Cup championship.

However, Picard would never translate his earlier success to the NHL. He never played a full season in the NHL and only played in at least half of the games in a season once, during the 1999 season. That season he also played in five playoff games, the only time he played in the NHL playoffs.

For the 2002 season Picard played in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga in Germany for the Adler Mannheim. He then played for two years with the Grand Rapids Griffins (a team for which he played parts of six seasons in all, and is the career leader in goals, assists and points) in the AHL before joining Thetford Mines Prolab of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey in 2004. He led the team in scoring in 2005, 2006 and 2007 and was the leading scorer in the LNAH in the 2007 season, retiring after the end of the 2009 season.

As of November 2014, Picard is the 16th leading goal scorer in minor league history with 563 , as well as 19th in points with 1256.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs Regular seasonPlayoffs Season Team League GP G A Pts PIM GP G A Pts PIM 1985–86 Sainte-Foy Gouverneurs QMAAA 42 53 34 87 — — — — — — 1986–87 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 66 33 35 68 53 — — — — — 1987–88 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 69 40 55 95 71 — — — — — 1988–89 Trois-Rivières Draveurs QMJHL 66 59 81 140 107 4 1 3 4 2 1989–90 Binghamton Whalers AHL 67 16 24 40 98 — — — — — 1990–91 Springfield Indians AHL 77 56 40 96 61 18 8 13 21 18 1990–91 Hartford Whalers NHL 5 1 0 1 2 — — — — — 1991–92 Springfield Indians AHL 40 21 17 38 44 11 2 0 2 34 1991–92 Hartford Whalers NHL 25 3 5 8 6 — — — — — 1992–93 Kansas City Blades IHL 33 7 10 17 51 12 3 2 5 20 1992–93 San Jose Sharks NHL 25 4 0 4 24 — — — — — 1993–94 Portland Pirates AHL 61 41 44 85 99 17 11 10 21 22 1994–95 PEI Senators AHL 57 32 57 89 58 8 4 4 8 6 1994–95 Ottawa Senators NHL 24 5 8 13 14 — — — — — 1995–96 Ottawa Senators NHL 17 2 6 8 10 — — — — — 1995–96 PEI Senators AHL 55 37 45 82 79 5 5 1 6 2 1996–97 Västra Frölunda HC SEL 3 0 1 1 0 — — — — — 1996–97 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 82 46 55 101 58 5 2 0 2 10 1997–98 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 58 28 41 69 42 — — — — — 1997–98 St. Louis Blues NHL 16 1 8 9 29 — — — — — 1998–99 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 6 2 2 4 2 — — — — — 1998–99 St. Louis Blues NHL 45 11 11 22 16 5 0 0 0 2 1999–00 Grand Rapids Griffins IHL 65 33 35 68 50 17 8 10 18 4 1999–00 Edmonton Oilers NHL 2 0 0 0 2 — — — — — 2000–01 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 72 31 39 70 22 10 4 5 9 4 2000–01 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 7 1 4 5 0 — — — — — 2001–02 Adler Mannheim DEL 60 24 28 52 30 12 7 6 13 4 2002–03 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 78 32 52 84 34 15 3 1 4 8 2003–04 Grand Rapids Griffins AHL 75 17 37 54 35 4 0 0 0 2 2003–04 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 60 36 55 91 22 17 6 11 17 8 2005–06 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 55 50 37 87 35 18 5 15 20 12 2006–07 Thetford Mines Prolab LNAH 48 48 51 99 18 7 6 3 9 2 2007–08 Thetford Mines Isothermic LNAH 52 22 51 73 36 7 3 6 9 2 2008–09 Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta LNAH 7 5 5 10 4 — — — — — 2008–09 Thetford Mines Isothermic LNAH 7 3 4 7 2 1 0 1 1 0 AHL totals 582 283 355 638 530 88 37 34 71 96 NHL totals 166 28 42 70 103 5 0 0 0 2