1982–83 Quebec Nordiques season explained

League:	NHL
Season:	1982–83
Year:	1982
Team:	Quebec Nordiques
Conferencerank:	8th
Divisionrank:	4th
Record:	34–34–12
Homerecord:	23–10–7
Roadrecord:	11–24–5
Goalsfor:	343
Goalsagainst:	336
Captain:	Vacant
Altcaptain:	None
Goalsleader:	Michel Goulet (57)
Assistsleader:	Peter Stastny (77)
Pointsleader:	Peter Stastny (124)
Plusminusleader:	Michel Goulet (+31)
Pimleader:	Dale Hunter (206)
Winsleader:	Dan Bouchard (20)
Gaaleader:	Dan Bouchard (4.01)

The 1982–83 Quebec Nordiques season was the Nordiques fourth season in the National Hockey League. In the 1981–82 season, Quebec recorded their first winning season in the NHL, as they had a record of 34–34–12, earning 80 points, in which they finished fourth in the Adams Division, qualifying for the post-season for the second consecutive season. The Nordiques lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Boston Bruins.

Off-season

During the off-season, the Nordiques announced that they would not have a team captain for the 1982–83 season, as Andre Dupont only had the position for the second half of the 1981–82 season after team captain Robbie Ftorek was dealt to the New York Rangers. Expectations were high for the club after their improbable playoff run, in which the team was only one round away from a berth in the Stanley Cup finals.

Regular season

The Nordiques would have a mediocre regular season, as they hovered around the .500 mark for the entire year. Quebec would set a team record for victories, winning 34 games, however, the team finished with two fewer points than the previous season, as they finished the year with a 34-34-12 record, earning 80 points, and their third consecutive playoff appearance, as they finished in fourth place in the Adams Division.

Offensively, the Nordiques were led by Peter Stastny, who led the club with 124 points, and was second in the league scoring race, finishing behind Wayne Gretzky of the Edmonton Oilers. Michel Goulet had a breakout season, scoring a team record 57 goals, which was the fourth highest total in the league. Goulet added 48 assists, earning 105 points, which was good for eighth in the NHL. Anton Stastny scored 32 goals and 92 points, while Marian Stastny scored 36 goals and 79 points despite missing 20 games due to injuries. On the blueline, Dave Pichette led the scoring, recording 24 points in 53 games, while Normand Rochefort earned 23 points in 62 games. Dale Hunter once again provided the team toughness, recording 206 penalty minutes.

In goal, Dan Bouchard was the number one goalie, winning a team best 20 games, while posting a team low GAA of 4.01, as well as recording the only shutout Quebec had during the season.

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Record	Pts	Attendance
1	October 6	Quebec Nordiques	6–4		1–0–0	2	11,196
2	October 7	Quebec Nordiques	5–9		1–1–0	2	16,250
3	October 9		4–6	Quebec Nordiques	2–1–0	4	15,118
4	October 11		4–3	Quebec Nordiques	2–2–0	4	15,259
5	October 14		4–4	Quebec Nordiques	2–2–1	5	14,011
6	October 16		4–3	Quebec Nordiques	2–3–1	5	15,226
7	October 20	Quebec Nordiques	5–3		3-3–1	7	8,242
8	October 21		4–8	Quebec Nordiques	4–3–1	9	14,140
9	October 23	Quebec Nordiques	5–9		4–4–1	9	18,144
10	October 26		4–9	Quebec Nordiques	5–4–1	11	14,483
11	October 30		4–5	Quebec Nordiques	6–4–1	13	15,186
12	November 2		5–2	Quebec Nordiques	6–5–1	13	15,021
13	November 6		1–4	Quebec Nordiques	7–5–1	15	15,229
14	November 8		5–5	Quebec Nordiques	7–5–2	16	15,221
15	November 10	Quebec Nordiques	5–7		7–6–2	16	9,909
16	November 11	Quebec Nordiques	3–2		8–6–2	18	14,685
17	November 13		2–7	Quebec Nordiques	9–6–2	20	15,004
18	November 16		7–4	Quebec Nordiques	9–7–2	20	15,258
19	November 18	Quebec Nordiques	4–7		9–8–2	20	18,895
20	November 21	Quebec Nordiques	9–7		10–8–2	22	17,498
21	November 23	Quebec Nordiques	2–5		10–9–2	22	15,781
22	November 25	Quebec Nordiques	3–2		11–9–2	24	7,226
23	November 27		3–1	Quebec Nordiques	11–10–2	24	15,254
24	November 30		6–8	Quebec Nordiques	12–10–2	26	14,828
25	December 2	Quebec Nordiques	3–3		12–10-3	27	12,252
26	December 4		2–3	Quebec Nordiques	13–10–3	29	15,237
27	December 7		5–10	Quebec Nordiques	14–10–3	31	15,235
28	December 9	Quebec Nordiques	1–4		14–11–3	31	16,203
29	December 11	Quebec Nordiques	7–4		15–11–3	33	11,142
30	December 12	Quebec Nordiques	3–7		15–12–3	33	18,132
31	December 14		4–4	Quebec Nordiques	15–12–4	34	14,845
32	December 18		5–4	Quebec Nordiques	15–13–4	34	15,023
33	December 19	Quebec Nordiques	1–3		15–14–4	34	11,308
34	December 21		3–3	Quebec Nordiques	15–14–5	35	15,237
35	December 23		3–6	Quebec Nordiques	16–14–5	37	15,314
36	December 26	Quebec Nordiques	4–4		16–14–6	38	18,117
37	December 28		1–4	Quebec Nordiques	17–14–6	40	15,236
38	January 2		7–4	Quebec Nordiques	17–15–6	40	15,258
39	January 4		1–3	Quebec Nordiques	18–15–6	42	15,276
40	January 7	Quebec Nordiques	1–5		18–16–6	42	17,421
41	January 8	Quebec Nordiques	1–6		18–17–6	42	15,230
42	January 10	Quebec Nordiques	2–6		18–18–6	42	9,814
43	January 12	Quebec Nordiques	1–2		18–19–6	42	11,507
44	January 13	Quebec Nordiques	0–2		18–20–6	42	14,685
45	January 15		2–7	Quebec Nordiques	19–20–6	44	15,039
46	January 18		1–3	Quebec Nordiques	20-20–6	46	15,232
47	January 21	Quebec Nordiques	5–4		21–20–6	48	13,365
48	January 22	Quebec Nordiques	7–3		22–20–6	50	10,336
49	January 25		3–6	Quebec Nordiques	23–20–6	52	15,193
50	January 27	Quebec Nordiques	2–5		23–21–6	52	11,061
51	January 29		4–6	Quebec Nordiques	24–21–6	54	15,056
52	February 1		3–12	Quebec Nordiques	25–21–6	56	15,190
53	February 3	Quebec Nordiques	3–5		25–22–6	56	13,744
54	February 5		0–0	Quebec Nordiques	25–22–7	57	15,247
55	February 6		4-4	Quebec Nordiques	25–22–8	58	15,232
56	February 10	Quebec Nordiques	3–3		25–22–9	59	7,242
57	February 11	Quebec Nordiques	3–7		25–23–9	59	17,498
58	February 13	Quebec Nordiques	5–4		26–23–9	61	17,875
59	February 15		1–4	Quebec Nordiques	27–23–9	63	15,240
60	February 17	Quebec Nordiques	3–6		27–24–9	63	13,922
61	February 19	Quebec Nordiques	4–4		27–24–10	64	12,052
62	February 22	Quebec Nordiques	1–6		27–25–10	64	17,721
63	February 24		6–3	Quebec Nordiques	27–26–10	64	15,330
64	February 26		3-6	Quebec Nordiques	28–26–10	66	15,250
65	March 1		5–5	Quebec Nordiques	28–26–11	67	15,273
66	March 3	Quebec Nordiques	3–5		28–27-11	67	13,326
67	March 5		3–10	Quebec Nordiques	29–27–11	69	15,240
68	March 6	Quebec Nordiques	7–3		30–27–11	71	9,321
69	March 8		11–5	Quebec Nordiques	30–28–11	71	15,292
70	March 13		3–6	Quebec Nordiques	31–28–11	73	15,250
71	March 15	Quebec Nordiques	3-5		31–29-11	73	11,180
72	March 17	Quebec Nordiques	3–4		31–30–11	73	11,770
73	March 18	Quebec Nordiques	3–7		31–31–11	73	16,413
74	March 20	Quebec Nordiques	2–3		31–32–11	73	15,075
75	March 24		3–7	Quebec Nordiques	32–32–11	75	15,142
76	March 26	Quebec Nordiques	1–2		32–33–11	75	16,382
77	March 27	Quebec Nordiques	6–6		32–33–12	76	14,063
78	March 29		4–3	Quebec Nordiques	32–34–12	76	15,227
79	April 2	Quebec Nordiques	5–4		33–34–12	78	11,142
80	April 3		5–6	Quebec Nordiques	34–34–12	80	15,132

Playoffs

The Nordiques opened the 1983 Stanley Cup playoffs with a best of five Adams Division semi-final series against the Boston Bruins. The Nordiques eliminated Boston in seven games in the Division finals the previous season. The Bruins had the best record in the Adams Division, posting a record of 50–20–10, earning 110 points, which was 30 more than the Nordiques. The series opened with two games at the Boston Garden, and Quebec stunned the Bruins in the first period, as Peter Stastny had a natural hat trick, as Quebec took a 3–0 lead. The Bruins came back, led by two goals by Mike O'Connell and one by Barry Pederson to even the game up, setting up overtime. In the extra period, Barry Pederson scored, as Boston completed the comeback and won the game 4–3. In the second game, the two teams exchanged goals in the first period, before Dale Hunter gave the Nordiques a 2–1 lead midway through the third period. The Bruins managed another comeback though, as Boston scored three unanswered goals to win the game 4–2, and take a 2–0 series lead. The series then moved to Le Colisée for the next two games, and the Nordiques, led by 31 saves by Dan Bouchard, staved off elimination with a 2–1 victory and cut the Bruins series lead in half. In the fourth game, Bruins goaltender Pete Peeters stole the show, making 38 saves, as Boston held on for a 2–1 win, and eliminated the Nordiques.

Boston Bruins 3, Quebec Nordiques 1

	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Record	Attendance
1	April 5	Quebec Nordiques	3–4		0-1	13,549
2	April 7	Quebec Nordiques	2–4		0-2	14,685
3	April 9		1–2	Quebec Nordiques	1-2	15,290
4	April 10		2–1	Quebec Nordiques	1-3	15,269

Player statistics

Regular season
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM +/- PPG SHG GWG C 75 47 77 124 78 28 5 0 4 LW 80 57 48 105 51 31 10 4 4 LW 79 32 60 92 25 25 10 0 7 RW 60 36 43 79 32 20 13 0 3 RW 68 28 39 67 30 -4 5 0 3 RW 80 26 38 64 170 -10 6 0 2 C 80 17 46 63 206 10 1 2 1 LW 76 21 31 52 34 0 4 0 3 LW 79 12 28 40 45 -1 0 0 0 RW 51 14 10 24 49 8 0 0 1 D 53 3 21 24 49 9 0 0 0 LW 35 9 14 23 6 0 1 0 1 D 62 6 17 23 40 11 1 0 1 LW 77 7 9 16 48 -6 0 0 1 D 58 5 11 16 135 11 1 0 0 D 46 3 12 15 69 11 0 0 0 D 36 2 12 14 108 5 0 0 0 D 75 2 12 14 145 11 0 0 1 D 52 4 8 12 84 -4 2 0 1 D 43 2 9 11 59 14 0 0 0 D 51 2 7 9 38 11 0 0 0 C 12 1 6 7 4 2 0 0 0 LW 16 3 3 6 4 -2 2 0 1 D 13 0 5 5 6 4 0 0 0 G 50 0 4 4 8 0 0 0 0 D 12 1 2 3 8 -1 0 0 0 D 14 1 2 3 28 -3 0 0 0 LW 22 1 1 2 59 -1 0 0 0 C 7 0 2 2 2 -1 0 0 0 C 2 1 0 1 2 1 0 0 0 G 17 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 D 7 0 0 0 6 2 0 0 0 C/LW 2 0 0 0 2 -1 0 0 0 RW 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 3 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 G 15 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 2 0 0 0 0 -1 0 0 0 D 5 0 0 0 4 -4 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L T GA GAA SO 2947 50 20 21 8 197 4.01 1 900 15 8 5 2 71 4.73 0 953 17 6 8 2 64 4.03 0 Team: 4800 80 34 34 12 332 4.15 1

Playoffs
Scoring
Player Pos GP G A Pts PIM PPG SHG GWG C 4 3 2 5 10 1 0 0 LW 4 2 2 4 0 0 0 0 C 4 2 1 3 24 0 1 0 LW 4 0 3 3 0 0 0 0 D 4 1 0 1 4 1 0 1 G 4 0 1 1 14 0 0 0 RW 4 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 D 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 D 4 0 1 1 19 0 0 0 LW 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 RW 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 D 4 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 D 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LW 4 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 D 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 D 4 0 0 0 14 0 0 0 LW 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 D 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 RW 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 RW 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 LW 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 D 4 0 0 0 2 0 0 0
Goaltending
Player MIN GP W L GA GAA SO 242 4 1 3 11 2.73 0 Team: 242 4 1 3 11 2.73 0

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Awards & records

• Second NHL All-Star team: Michel Goulet

Transactions

The Nordiques were involved in the following transactions during the 1982–83 season.

Trades

August 4, 1982	To St. Louis Blues Pat Hickey	To Quebec Nordiques Rick Lapointe
December 3, 1982	To Hartford Whalers Pierre Lacroix	To Quebec Nordiques Blake Wesley
February 4, 1983	To Vancouver Canucks John Garrett	To Quebec Nordiques Anders Eldebrink
June 8, 1983	To Buffalo Sabres Real Cloutier 1st round pick in 1983 – Adam Creighton	To Quebec Nordiques Tony McKegney Andre Savard J.F. Sauve 3rd round pick in 1983 – Iiro Jarvi
June 8, 1983	To Chicago Black Hawks 11th round pick in 1984 – David Mackey	To Quebec Nordiques 12th round pick in 1983 – Jindrich Kokrment

Waivers

December 31, 1982

From Pittsburgh Penguins Pat Price

Free agents

Player Former Team Billings Bighorns (WHL)

Player New Team Buffalo Sabres

Draft picks

Quebec's draft picks from the 1982 NHL Entry Draft which was held at the Montreal Forum in Montreal.

Round		Player	Nationality	College/junior/club team (league)
1	13			Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
2	34			Niagara Falls Flyers (OHL)
3	55			Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
4	76			Dukla Jihlava (Czech.)
5	97			Seattle Breakers (WHL)
7	131			Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)
9	181			Kitchener Rangers (OHL)
10	202			HC Košice (Czech.)
11	223	Andre Martin		Montreal Juniors (QMJHL)
12	244			HC Košice (Czech.)
12	248			Slovan Bratislava (Slovak)

Notes and References

1. Web site: hockey-reference.com . 2009-07-27 . 1982-83 Quebec Nordiques Statistics – Hockey-Reference.com.