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Place of Birth: Asbestos, Quebec, Canada
About Jean Hamel
- Joseph Jean Pierre Hamel (born June 6, 1952) is a retired professional ice hockey player who played 699 games over 12 seasons in the National Hockey League.
- He played for the St.
- Louis Blues, Detroit Red Wings, Quebec Nordiques, and Montreal Canadiens.
- Jean is the brother of Gilles Hamel. Hamel was born in Asbestos, Quebec.
- As a youth, he played in the 1965 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Asbestos.Hamel retired from professional hockey in 1984, as a direct result of having sustained two serious eye injuries while playing for the Montreal Canadiens that year — the first, during the April 20 "Good Friday massacre", and the second, during an October 4 pre-season match.When Hamel retired, the Canadiens organization hired him as an assistant coach with their new Sherbrooke Canadiens farm team in the American Hockey League (AHL).
- Hamel served as an assistant coach, later head coach, during the entire six seasons that the Sherbrooke Canadiens existed as a franchise.
- During his final two years as head coach, the Sherbrooke Canadiens finished first overall in the AHL for the 1988–89 and 1989–90 AHL regular seasons.
- Starting the next season, Hamel served as head coach of the Drummondville Voltigeurs, in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, for four seasons.
- After a four-year break, Hamel returned to his birthplace as head coach with the Asbestos Aztecs, of the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League, for one season (1999–2000).
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