Michel Goulet

Canadian left wing and Hockey Hall of Famer who became the Quebec Nordiques' greatest goal-scorer, netting 548 career goals across a 15-year NHL career.

Born on 21 April 1960 in Péribonka, Quebec, Michel Goulet began his professional career with the Birmingham Bulls of the World Hockey Association in 1978, scoring 28 goals as an 18-year-old rookie. Following the NHL-WHA merger, he was drafted 20th overall by the Quebec Nordiques in 1979 and quickly developed into one of the league's most prolific snipers. Goulet became the first Nordique to record four consecutive 50-goal seasons, from 1982 to 1986, and posted four 100-point seasons for the franchise, helping lead Quebec to the Conference Finals in both 1982 and 1985. He was named to the NHL First All-Star Team three times, in 1984, 1986 and 1987, cementing his status as one of the league's elite left wings during the 1980s. Goulet was traded to the Chicago Blackhawks in 1990, where he reached his 1,000th career point in 1991 and scored his 500th career goal the following year, helping Chicago reach the 1992 Stanley Cup Final — the only Final appearance of his playing career, which ended without a championship. On 16 March 1994, playing against Montreal at the Forum, Goulet suffered a severe concussion crashing into the end boards, an injury that forced his retirement in early 1995. Goulet finished his 15-year NHL career with 548 goals and 604 assists for 1,152 points across 1,089 games. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1998 alongside former teammate Peter Stastny, and the Nordiques retired his No. 16 exactly one year after his career-ending injury. Though he never won the Stanley Cup as a player, Goulet later won it twice, in 1996 and 2001, as director of player personnel for the Colorado Avalanche.

Prolific goal-scoring left wing with a powerful, accurate shot

Widely regarded as one of the finest goal-scorers of the 1980s and the greatest player in Quebec Nordiques history