Dominique Ducharme

Dominique Ducharme (born March 12, 1973) is a former ice hockey player and current assistant coach of the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League.
==Playing career==
Ducharme had a four-year standout career playing for the University of Vermont Catamounts men's hockey team. He ranks 9th all-time in points with 149, and seventh all-time in assists with 93 at UVM while playing alongside the likes of future NHLers and Stanley Cup champions, Martin St. Louis and Tim Thomas.
After graduation, Ducharme began his professional career with splitting time between the Raleigh IceCaps and Huntington Blizzard of the ECHL along with the Cornwall Aces of the AHL in 1995-96. After that, he embarked on a five-year career in the French leagues, before retiring in 2002.
==Coaching career==
In 2004, Ducharme took his first coaching job, working with his hometown junior team, the Joliette L'Action in the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League. He stayed there until 2008, when he accepted a position as an assistant coach with the Montreal Junior Hockey Club in the QMJHL, until taking the Halifax job in 2011.
Ducharme's first season with the Mooseheads saw the team finish 6th overall in the QMJHL, and second in the Maritimes Division reaching the semifinals of the President's Cup. In 2012-13, with top NHL Draft prospects like Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin, Ducharme and the Mooseheads went 58-6-3-1, registering 347 goals for and only 176 goals against. In the 2013 President's Cup playoffs, Halifax lost just one game to capture its first QMJHL crown in team history. With automatic entry in to the 2013 Memorial Cup, the Mooseheads defeated the Portland Winterhawks 6-4, to win its first Memorial Cup title, and become the third-straight QMJHL team to win the tournament in as many years. For his efforts, Ducharme was awarded with the Ron Lapointe Trophy as the QMHJL's Coach of the Year.
Following the 2015-16 QMJHL season, Ducharme resigned his position with the Mooseheads and joined Drummondville as both head coach and general manager.
Ducharme has also been involved with Hockey Canada, first assisting on Quebec in the 2011 World Under-17 Hockey Challenge, and as an assistant coach for the Canada Under-18 National Team at the 2013 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament. Ducharme served as the head coach for Canada during the 2017 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, leading the team to a silver medal, and the 2018 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, leading them to gold.
On April 27, 2018, Ducharme was hired as an assistant coach by the Montreal Canadiens, following the termination of Jean-Jacques Daigneault and Dan Lacroix.
==Career playing statistics==
 	 	 		Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season		Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs	Playoffs
Season 	Team 	League 		GP 	G 	A 	Pts 	PIM 		GP 	G 	A 	Pts 	PIM
1991–92 	University of Vermont	ECAC 		31 	13 	19 	32 	20 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1992–93 	University of Vermont	ECAC 		31 	16 	22 	38 	18 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1993–94 	University of Vermont	ECAC 		33 	12 	31 	43 	26 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1994–95 	University of Vermont	ECAC 		35 	13 	23 	36 	28 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1995-96 	Raleigh IceCaps 	ECHL 		6 	1 	2 	3 	0 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1995-96 	Huntington Blizzard 	ECHL 		13 	5 	3 	8 	2 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1995-96 	Cornwall Aces 	AHL 		5 	1 	1 	2 	6 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1996-97 	Toulouse-Blagnac 	France3 		27 	56 	49 	105 	46 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1997-98 	Cergy 	France3 		28 	73 	68 	141 	40 		- 	- 	- 	- 	-
1998-99 	Cergy 	France2 		28 	29 	34 	62 	- 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
1999-00 	Anglet 	France 		35 	16 	22 	38 	40 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
2001-02 	Anglet 	France 		35 	13 	22 	35 	- 		— 	— 	— 	— 	—
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==Career coaching record==
Team 	Year 	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season	Regular season 	Post season	Post season	Post season	Post season
Team 	Year 	G 	W 	L 	T 	OTL 	Pts 	Finish 	W 	L 	Win % 	Result
Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 	2011-12	68 	36 	22 	- 	2 	85 	2nd in Maritimes	10 	7 	.588 	President's Cup Semifinal
Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 	2012-13	68 	58 	6 	- 	3 	120 	1st in Maritimes	19 	2 	.904 	Memorial Cup Champions
Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 	2013-14	68 	48 	18 	- 	3 	97 	1st in Maritimes	11 	5 	.713 	President's Cup Semifinal
Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 	2014-15	68 	32 	30 	- 	4 	70 	4th in Maritimes	7 	7 	.500 	President's Cup Quarterfinal
Halifax Mooseheads (QMJHL) 	2015-16	68 	21 	39 	- 	7 	50 	6th in Maritimes	0 	0 	.000 	
Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL)	2016-17	68 	28 	34 	- 	1 	62 	4th in West 	0 	4 	.000 	President's Cup First Round
Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL)	2017-18	68 	44 	20 	- 	4 	92 	2nd in West 	5 	5 	.500 	President's Cup Second Round
Total* 	Total* 	450 	255 	158 	- 	37 	.607 	 	52 	26 	.667 	
*Due to his Team Canada's stints, the total is the games he coached himself, excluding when he was with Team Canada.
==Awards and honors==
Award 	Year
All-ECAC Hockey Rookie Team 	1991–92
Brian Kilrea Coach of the Year Award (CHL)	2012-13
==References==
==External links==
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