height_ft played_for shoots weight_lb birth_place draft_year career_end position draft_team height_in birth_date image article_title draft career_start
6 montreal montreal voyageurs -lrb- ahl -rrb- hershey bears -lrb- ahl -rrb- canadiens washington capitals cleveland barons -lrb- ahl -rrb- left 205 longueuil , qc , can 1965 1982 defence montreal canadiens 2 20 february 1948 pierre bouchard.jpg pierre bouchard
 5th overall 1970
pierre bouchard

pierre Émile bouchard -lrb- born february 20 , 1948 -rrb- is a canadian retired professional ice hockey player who played in the national hockey league -lrb- nhl -rrb- with the montreal canadiens and washington capitals .
he was selected by the canadiens in the first round -lrb- fifth overall -rrb- of the 1965 nhl amateur draft .
bouchard played an important role , along with bill nyrop , as steady defensive-defensemen to the canadien 's offensive `` superstar '' trio of robinson , savard and lapointe who dominated the nhl blueline in the 70s .
bouchard 's nhl career began after the montreal canadiens had missed the playoffs in the 1969 -- 70 season , unacceptable for a franchise which had not missed post-season play in 22 years , and among the changes that were made were to bring bouchard along with guy lapointe up from the minors .
so in just his rookie year 1970 -- 71 , bouchard was part of the canadien team that upset the powerful , record-breaking boston bruins in the first round and went on to win the stanley cup .
in all bouchard was on five stanley cup winning teams with the canadiens in eight seasons .
prior to the 1978 -- 79 season , a failed manipulation of the waiver system by the canadiens led bouchard 's rights to unintentionally move from montreal to washington .
montreal had intended to reclaim him , but nhl president john ziegler interfered in the deal .
initially unhappy with the move , bouchard played only one game in the 1978 -- 79 season and considered retirement .
however , he returned next season to the nhl with washington where he finished his career playing four seasons .
his father was canadiens ' hall of fame defenceman of the 1940s and 50s Émile `` butch '' bouchard .
from 1970 to 1975 pierre was on the same team as henri richard , creating the unusual occurrence of a player having been team-mates with both father and son in the nhl .
richard had played with butch bouchard in the 1955 -- 56 season .
after retirement bouchard went into business and broadcasting .
he became one of the most popular nhl francophone analysts .
