Isles Info:
2005-06 Update: May 1,
2006 Update: The Chicoutimi Sagueneens advanced
to the second round of the QMJHL playoffs vs. the
Gatineau Olympiques. After winning Game 1 of the series,
Gatineau came back and won the next four straight to
defeat Chicoutimi 4 games to 1. Sylvain Michaud had not
seen action in the playoffs until relieving Alexandre
Vincent in game 2 against Gatineau. After Vincent gave
up 4 goals in the first period, Michaud came in and only
gave up 1 goal in the next 40 minutes. Michaud got the
start for game 3 in Gatineau on April 11th, but
Chicoutimi lost the game 4-3. The Sagueneens decided to
go back to Vincent for game 4. In game 5 Michaud
returned in relief for the final period after Vincent
gave up 4 goals in what would eventually be a 4-2 loss.
Michaud playoff record officially was 0-1 in 3
appearances and he gave up a total of 5 goals in almost
120 minutes played. Michaud's junior career is now over
and it will be interesting to see if he can catch on
with a pro team.
April
1, 2006 Update: Sylvain Michaud posted a record of
4-0-0 in 4 appearances during the month of March. He
finished second in the QMJHL in GAA at 2.53 in 46 games
played, behind Cape Breton's Ondrej Pavelec who posted a
2.51 GAA in 47 games. His 4 shutouts tied for second
most in the league, one behind league leader
Cédrick Desjardins of Québec who has 5. Michaud
recorded two assists during the month of March. He
recorded an assist in a 4-1 win vs. the Baie-Comeau
Drakkar on March 9th and another in a 9-3 win vs. the
Shawinigan Cataractes on March 19th. He only allowed 7
goals in his 4 appearances during the month of March.
Michaud has been splitting games with Alexandre Vincent.
They both backstopped Chicoutimi to a perfect 8-0-0
record in March. The Sagueneens won their final 9 games
of the regular season dating from February 26th to March
19th. Michaud won 4 of those games. He reached the 30
win mark for the first time in his QMJHL career.
Michaud's 204 career QMJHL games ranks him fourth on the
league's all-time games played list for a goaltender.
Playoffs:
Chicoutimi was matched up against Baie-Comeau
Drakkar in the first round of the QMJHL playoffs, best
of seven. The Sagueneens swept Baie-Comeau 4 games to 0
to advance to the second round, where they will face the
Gatineau Olympiques. Michaud did not play in the series
against Baie-Comeau as Chicoutimi chose Alexandre
Vincent as their starting playoff goaltender despite
Michaud's great regular season numbers.
March
1, 2006 Update: Sylvain Michaud posted a record of
5-1-0 in 7 appearances during the month of February. He
has dropped down to second in the QMJHL in GAA at 2.62
in 42 games played, behind Cape Breton's Andrej Pavelec
who has a 2.56 GAA in 42 games played. Tied for second
in the league with 4 shutouts, one behind league leader
Cédrick Desjardins of Québec who has 5. In his fifth
season in the QMJHL, Michaud is having his best year and
his Chicoutimi Sagueneens are battling Québec and
Moncton for the best overall record in the league.
Michaud is one win away from tying his career high of 28
wins he set between Rouyn-Noranda and Drummondville in
2004-05 in 68 games played.
* Sylvain Michaud
(CHI): he is playing his 200th game in the QMJHL
February 19, 2006. He became the 5th goaltender of the
QMJHL history to reach this 200-mark, see the list of
the all-time leaders, for games played by a goaltender:
Updated 3/20/06
1.Jacques Cloutier - 222;
2.Adam Russo - 210;
3.Danny Dallaire - 209;
4.Sylvain Michaud - 204;
5.Eric Lafrance - 201
February 1, 2006 Update: Sylvain Michaud posted a
record of 5-3-0 in 9 appearances during the month of
January. His 2.61 GAA still leads the QMJHL and he is
tied for the league lead in shut-outs with 4. He turned
21 on February 1, 2006. Stopped Gatineau's Nick
Fugére on a penalty shot January 20, 2006. Chicoutimi
lost the game at Gatineau 4-1.
January 1, 2006
Update: Sylvain Michaud has the top goals against
average among regular Q goalies with a 2.44 mark.
November 1, 2005
Update: Sylvain Michaud stopped Rouyn-Noranda's Brent
Aubin on a penalty shot October 7, 2006. Chicoutimi won
the game at Rouyn-Noranda 4-3.
Highlight: * Named 3rd
star with 35 saves in 3-2 loss at Olympiques de Gatineau
Oct. 9, 2005.
* Named 3rd star with 18 saves in 4-0 SO vs.
Drummondville Voltiguers on Oct. 14, 2005.
* Posted a 6-0 shutout vs. Shawinigan Cataractes on
October 29, 2005.
* Named 3rd star stopping 29 shots & posting a 6-0
SO at the PEI Rocket on Nov. 11, 2005.
* Named 2nd star with 24 saves in 6-3 win vs. Halifax
Mooseheads on November 19, 2005.
* Named 3rd star with 29 saves in 3-2 loss at
Baie-Comeau Drakkar on December 27, 2005.
* Named 2nd star with 25 saves in 1-0 loss at
Drummondville Voltiguers on January 3, 2006.
* Named 1st star with 27 saves in 3-0 shutout win vs.
Drummondville Voltiguers on January 7, 2006.
* Named 2nd star with 41 saves in 3-1 win at Rimouski
Oceanic on March 7, 2006.
On
January 3, 2005 Sylvain Michaud was traded from
Drummondville mid-season to the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in
exchange for Philippe Roberge and Jean-Philippe Côté.
On August 19, 2005 he was traded once again to the
Chicoutimi Sagueneens in exchange for a 2006 sixth round
pick in the QMJHL Bantam Draft. According to lhjmq.qc.ca
Michaud's rights were relinquished by the Islanders on
September 15, 2005. He wasn't listed in the Islanders
2005-06 media guide.
Previous career
penalty shots: Sylvain Michaud of Drummondville allowed
a goal to Rouyn-Noranda's Yannick Tifu. Drummondville
lost to Rouyn-Noranda 1-0 on September 26, 2003.
LHJMQ: Guillaume
Latendresse cannot thwart ex-mate Sylvain Michaud
Saguenéens mine moral Acrobats of Drummondville by
bleaching them 4-0.
October 15, 2005
Excerpt(translated
from French-Canadian): The hero of the match however was
the guard Sylvain Michaud, who signed its sixth washing
in career. After the meeting, its fellow-member Maxime
Boisclair did not tare praises for the guard of his
team: "We had played well. One wanted to go to seek
this victory for Sylvain ", noted Boisclair. It
should be noted that Michaud showed of a great courage
and a great team spirit, returning player the two
matches of the weekend, in spite of the death of his
father, earlier this week. It will turn over to
Legardeur to find its close relations after the match
against the Ramparts, for then attending the funeral
Monday.
Michaud earn QMJHL
weekly honours
November 1, 2004
The title of Defensive
Player of the Week went to goaltender Sylvain Michaud,
of the Drummondville Voltigeurs.
On defense, Michaud
won all three games he played in last week. During that
stretch, he recorded a 1.00 goals-against average and a
save percentage of .963. He face 30.8 shots per game.
The 19 year-old goalie was particularly efficient in a
4-1 victory over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, on Sunday.
He stopped 31 shots and helped the Voltigeurs earn their
fifth straight win on home ice.
Michaud was chosen over goaltender Brandon Verge (1-1-1;
160,3 MP; 1,12 GAA; ,970 SP) of the Chicoutimi
Sagueneens, defenceman Nicolas Desilets (3-0-2-2) of the
Shawinigan Cataractes, and over goaltender Julien Ellis
(1-0-1; 125 MP; 0,96 GAA; ,968 SP), also of the
Cataractes.
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Isles select G Sylvain Michaud
276th |
| The Islanders
closed their 2004 draft by selecting one of the best goaltenders in
the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Michaud is 19 years old and
was passed over for the 2003 draft, despite having been ranked 12th
among goaltenders on the 2003 CSB rankings at the midterm mark.
Despite playing for a bad team in 2003-04, Michaud posted a 2.92 GAA
after 62 games played in the high scoring league. |
NHL Central
Scouting Bureau Rankings:
Midterm - 11th May 13, 2003 - Final - 12th for 2003
Draft.
islesinfo.com
comment: The fact that he played for a horrible team
in 2002-03 and went into the draft with a GAA of 4.77
probably scared off a lot of NHL teams. He still has a
lot to prove but according to the articles below Michaud
seems very happy to have been drafted.
Michaud becomes
Islanders
by Andre Martin, July 2, 2004
(Translated from French-Canadian)
The guard of the
Acrobats Sylvain Michaud has just proven with all which
never should be ceased believing in his dreams.
The 19 year old guard was
fished out, the last weekend, by Islanders of New York.
At the time of 9th and last round, the guard of
Repentigny heard his name. Calmly, it rose to move to
the table of Islanders.
"My mother had not heard my name and it believed
that I rose for me to go from there, Sylvain Michaud
underlines. Its reaction was sharp. On my side, I did
not think any more of nothing and I was so content. I
took the trouble to look at the central table to see my
name there. I will preciously preserve the pullover and
the cap."
Michaud was the 276th player fished out by a team of the
national League, in 2004. It is the depistor of
Islanders, Mario Saracino, which had convinced it to be
pointed as a Caroline, for the fishing out.
"Islanders are the only team which I had met in
interview, Michaud underlines. They took the trouble to
speak to me. With my mother and Isabelle, on my pension,
one decided to go up in Ralley. We did not think that
that took 22 hours of road, but that was worth the
sorrow. Moreover, with share Rick Dipietro, Islanders
have few young guards. I am also the only guard fished
out by them this year."
After having known one difficult season at 17 years,
Michaud was raised last season. It had been piqué not
to be fished out and it wanted to make lie its dénigreurs.
"I do not intend to slow down with the drive this
summer because it has been my receipt gaining for
several years, Michaud notes. My efforts were rewarded,
but walk is still very high before playing a first match
in the great league. One will have a good year with the
Acrobats and waitings will be higher this year."
The director-manager of the Acrobats Michel George, was
very happy for his guard number one.
"I am content because Sylvain never released,
George underlines. On the other hand, I am not surprised
because I always knew that it was good. He stopped the
discs on the level midget AAA and he still did it last
year. That proves that the guy can still be fished out
to 18 or 19 years. They never owe abandonner.
Ten minutes with Sylvain
Michaud
by Andre Martin, July 2, 2004
(Translated from French-Canadian)
For this eleventh
portrait d?une series of 23 on the players of the
Acrobats, the native guard of the Keeper Sylvain Michaud
retains l?attention.
"Of the days, I
wonder which player I would have become if I did not
n?avais selected the position of goalkeeper."
This sentence, launched by the 18 year old guard of the
Acrobats, Sylvain Michaud, explains in good part its
style of hockeyor and its personality.
Those which followed the actions of the small guard
since his beginnings in Drummondville will have noticed
the exceptional talent of Michaud with man?uvrer the
disc around its net.
This year, it found its confidence (amochée l?an last
because d?une difficult season) and it took much d?expérience
in its role of third defender. It n?est not rare to see
it carrying out itself the release in numerical
disadvantage.
When one looks at a little the past of the guard of
Repentigny, one includes/understands d?où better come
these "offensive" qualities. 18 years L?athlète
always adored to play l?avant. It n?est d?ailleurs never
question for him of keeping the lorsqu?il goals goes to
the skating rink. It has d?ailleurs always dreamed to
mark a goal, a dream qu?il realized at pee-wee AA.
Because d?une storm, its trainer had asked him to play
l?attaque.
"This n?avait be a very beautiful goal, but j?ai
have what I wanted, tell Sylvain Michaud. J?ai always
liked to mark and j?ai good hands with the skating rink.
C?est with the result that j?ai also good hands as
guard, even if j?ai a mitten. I wonder really which
player I would have become if j?avais continued to play
l?avant. But I do not think that j?aurais have more
success."
However, after the levels prénovices, Michaud requires
has his/her parents of l?emmener with Montreal-Is, where
the players can more quickly become goalkeepers. It was
really justified to adopt this position and with
becoming good quickly.
C?est what l?a brought to play three seasons on the
level atom BB, with l?équipe of the CLL (Charlemagne,
the Keeper and L?Assomption). Then, at its second season
pee-wee, it makes the jump on level AA with the Pioneers
of Lanaudière. Michaud will not play then qu?une season
on the level bantam AA, before d?être chosen by André
Tourigny, at 15 years, with the Piers of the
Cape-of-the-Madeleine, the League midget AAA of Quebec,
l?équipe which accomodates the players elites of
Lanaudière.
Extremely in series
In eight years d?existence, the Piers n?avaient yet not
gained only one eliminatory series. They had finished in
the forefront in 1998-1999, but they had been eliminated
with the first turn by Sainte-Foy.
In 2000-2001, Michaud and his finish them with the fifth
rank and penultimate row of Koho division. They thus
face Lévis (the fourth position) in first round.
The first two matches with Lévis are disastrous and the
Piers essuient reverses from 8 to 5 and 7 to 0.
"Andre Tourigny m?a makes come in his office to say
to me that even if j?accordais 25 more goals in the next
match, I would remain in front of the net, tells Sylvain
Michaud. He m?avait whipped with this mark
d?encouragement. Few people believed in us, but we then
gained the last three confrontations of the series three
of five."
The Piers were then inclined in five matches against
powerful Sainte-Foy Gouverneurs, who aligned Steve
Bernier, Marc-Antoine Pouliot and Dany Roussin,
respectively first, third and fifth choice on the whole
of the fishing out of 2001 of the LHJMQ.
At 16 years, Sylvain Michaud, a choice of round third
(41e on the whole) cuts a station with the Acrobats. L?équipe
knows troubles in spite of an alignment filled players
established in the Courteau circuit. But after the world
Challenge of less than 17 years, Michaud speaks with the
director-manager about the Acrobats, Michel George, and
decides qu?il would be better for him to turn over with
the Piers for the balance of the season.
In series, Michaud trails the Piers jusqu?en final Koho
division.
After an easy victory of three parts to zero in the
first series against Jonquière, the Piers are measured
with the Roadmenders d?Alex Bourret and Benoit Doucet.
The 16 year old guard was suspended for the first two
matches of the series, result d?une fair in the last
match vis-a-vis the Elites. The Cape-of-the-Madeleine
thus drew from l?arrière 2 to 0 when Michaud returned
to the play. After victories (4 to 3 in prolongation and
3 to 0) at the time of the two parts in residence of the
Piers, the series is equal 2 to 2. The Roadmenders gain
the following match on their premises and the players
d?André Tourigny must absolutely put the hand on the
two last meetings. They empochent the sixth meeting,
once again in prolongation, before d?aller to gain the
series in seven matches, in Magog.
The fairy tale s?arrête however finally of division,
whereas powerful Gaulois of the College Antoine-Girouard
de Saint-Hyacinthe (cash in particular on Kévin
Mailhiot, David Laliberté and Julien Ellis) gains the
series into five against the Piers.
Card-index technical
Name: Sylvain Michaud
Nickname: Sly
Age: 18 years
Grown with: The Keeper, now amalgamated with Repentigny
L?endroit where he likes the least to play in the LHJMQ:
"With Valley-d?Or and Rouyn-Noranda. C?est there
that I was wounded l?an last and this year, j?ai last
one night with Rouyn because d?une meningitis."
Where he would like to be in ten years:
"unquestionable C?est that my objective is to play
in the national League. I would be disappointed not to
achieve this goal."
Its more beautiful memory in hockey: "At 16 years,
to beat the Roadmenders of Magog in seven matches,
semi-final of conference."
L?entrainor or the person who l?a more helped in its
career: "Andre Tourigny, who m?a given a true
chance to 15 years with the Piers. J?avais granted 13
goals in two matches, but it m?a left in the net and we
gained our first series."
One is unaware of: If Michaud n?atteint not the national
League, it would like to be a professor d?histoire
throughout the world. He is d?ailleurs very worried (he
had adored a professor of fourth secondary) by the
inequalities on planet and the lack of resources of the
children of the countries in the process of development.
Rather rare C?est qu?on intends a 18 year old hockeyor
to speak to us about l?education of the children in
Africa, but why not...
In career in the LHJMQ
2001-02: Drummondville, 11 parts, a profit, three
reverses and three matches null, average of 3,46, no
washing;
2002-03: Drummondville, 37 parts, four profits, 24
reverses and two matches null, average of 4,77, no
washing;
2003-04: Drummondville, 36 parts, 14 profits, 16
reverses and five matches null, average of 3,05, two
washings.
Voltigeurs
sweep QMJHL awards
( not sure of the date )
LONGUEUIL, Que. (CP) -- Drummondville Voltigeurs
right-winger Louis-Philippe Martin was named the Quebec
Major Junior Hockey League's offensive player of the
week and Drummondville goaltender Sylvain Michaud earned
defensive honours.
Martin, from Montreal, had two goals and six assists and
carried a plus-minus of plus-five through three games.
Michaud, from Repentigny, Que., went 3-0-0 with a
goals-against average of 1.33, a .960 save percentage
and one shutout.
Posted by a fan on
HFBoards.com
( So take it for what it's worth )
Possible Drummondville
NHL picks?
Sylvain Michaud has a
chance of being a late rounder, but there is just too
much baggage that comes along with this kid. He has an
attitude, and has a lot of off-ice issues to deal with,
and the fact that he has not had a spotless medical
history (he has had bouts with mono, as well as viral
meningitis, and a few other viruses, and has had some
injury woes.) Sly can be a good goalie, but he needs to
get his head screwed on straight if he wants to be taken
seriously.
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