Height 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) Name Marc Tardif Career end 1983 Playing career Career start 1969 | National team Canada Weight 81 kg Shot Left Role Ice hockey player Position Winger | |
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Born June 12, 1949 (age 74)
Granby, QC, CAN ( 1949-06-12 ) NHL Draft 2nd overall, 1969
Montreal Canadiens Played for Montreal Canadiens, Los Angeles Sharks, Quebec Nordiques | ||
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Joseph Gérard Marquis Tardif (born June 12, 1949) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left winger who is the leading goal scorer in the history of the World Hockey Association, principally for the Quebec Nordiques.
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- Wha marc tardif rick jodzio brawl wmv
- Playing career
- WHA years
- Retirement
- Awards and achievements
- References
Playing career
Born in Granby, Quebec, Tardif played two seasons with the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The NHL Montreal Canadiens - in the final year the team had the privilege to do so - invoked its right to select two French Canadian players first and second overall to pick Tardif in the first round, second overall, of the 1969 NHL Amateur Draft. Tardif spent most of the 1969–70 NHL season with the minor league Montreal Voyageurs, one of the leading scorers on a team studded with future NHL stars - Jude Drouin, Guy Charron, Guy Lapointe and Pete Mahovlich among them. He made the Canadiens for good the following season, playing credibly for the eventual Stanley Cup champions. In 1972, Tardif scored 31 goals.
WHA years
In 1973 Tardif signed with the World Hockey Association, playing with the Los Angeles Sharks. He was the Sharks' leading scorer that season, and was named to play for Team Canada in the 1974 Summit Series the following fall. The Sharks, however, finished with the league's poorest record, and moved to Detroit, where Tardif played brilliantly before a trade to the Quebec Nordiques.
In Quebec, Tardif became one of the league's preeminent stars. He finished the 1975 season with 50 goals, and added a league-leading ten goals in the playoffs en route to the AVCO Cup finals against the eventual champion Houston Aeros. The next season, he led the WHA in goals, assists and points by wide margins and becoming only the second professional player to score seventy goals in a single season, while the Nordiques rampaged to fifty wins. Tardif's playoffs were cut short after an attack by Calgary Cowboys enforcer Rick Jodzio in which he incurred serious head injuries, leading to one of the first cases where a hockey player was charged in a court of law for assault.
The next season Tardif was named the captain of the team, and recovered to post another hundred-point campaign while leading the Nordiques to their only WHA championship, and followed that up in 1978 with a 154-point campaign (setting a professional hockey record eventually broken by Wayne Gretzky), for which he received his second league MVP award.
Retirement
Tardif remained a star when the Nordiques joined the NHL after the WHA folded in 1979, acting as the team's first NHL captain. Tardif retired after the 1983 season, and the Nordiques retired his No. 8 jersey in tribute to their first great scoring star. He finished his career scoring 316 goals and 350 assists for 666 points in the WHA, and 194 goals and 207 assists for 401 points in the NHL. He currently owns a car dealership in Quebec City.