Dollard St. Laurent, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Canadian ice hockey defenceman
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Place of Birth: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
About Dollard St. Laurent
- Joseph Dollard Herve St.
- Laurent (May 12, 1929 – April 6, 2015) was a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. Dollard started his National Hockey League career with the Montreal Canadiens in 1951.
- He would spend eight years in Montreal before being traded to the Chicago Black Hawks.
- He won four Stanley Cups with Montreal and one with Chicago. He started out with the Jr.
- Canadiens of the QJHL where he skated for two seasons from 1947 to 1949.
- There he demonstrated an offensive touch and an ability to play a tough game of defence at the other end of the ice.
- In 1949–50, St.
- Laurent started a three-year relationship with the Royal Montreal Hockey Club of the QSHL.
- He spent most of his time sharpening the finer points of his game while putting them to the occasional test by joining the Habs for a couple of stints. Around 1952–53, however, the Canadiens began to introduce significant new blood in the form of Jacques Plante and Dickie Moore among others.
- Dollard helped Montreal win the Stanley Cup in 1953.
- One of the others included St.
- Laurent who settled onto the Habs' blueline corps as a stay-at-home regular for the next six seasons.
- His efforts contributed to three straight Stanley Cup victories between 1956, 1957, 1958. After the third championship, St.
- Laurent was sold to the Chicago Black Hawks who were gradually assembling a lineup bent on bringing the Cup to town after a lengthy absence.
- In 1960–61, the team finally ended the championship drought by ousting the Red Wings in the finals. St.
- Laurent played for the Hawks until the end of the 1961–62 campaign.
- The following year, he was dispatched to the Quebec Aces of the AHL, during which St.
- Laurent took a hard fall to the ice, breaking his leg and ending his aspirations to make it back to the NHL.
- At the end of the season, he announced his retirement. On May 17, 1952, he was married to Jessie FitzPatrick (1929-1993). St.
- Laurent died on April 6, 2015, aged 85.
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