Jerry Dupont
{{Short description|Canadian ice hockey player (born 1962)}}
{{BLP sources|date=August 2023}}{{Infobox ice hockey player
| image = Jerome Dupont 1981.JPG
| image_size = 230px
| caption = Dupont in 1981
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|2|21}}
| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| league =
| team =
| prospect_team =
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| played_for = Chicago Blackhawks
Toronto Maple Leafs
| position = Defence
| height_ft = 6
| height_in = 0
| weight_lb = 200
| shoots = Left
| draft = 15th overall
| draft_team = Chicago Blackhawks
| draft_year = 1980
| ntl_team =
| career_start = 1981
| career_end = 1987
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Jerome Robert Dupont (born February 21, 1962, in Ottawa, Ontario) is a former Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman.
Biography
As a youth, Dupont played in the 1974 and 1975 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Gloucester, Ontario.{{cite web|url=https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|title=Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA|year=2018|website=Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament|access-date=2019-01-11|archive-date=2019-03-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306085544/https://www.publicationsports.com/ressources/files/439/Joueurs_Pro.pdf|url-status=dead}}
Dupont played for the Toronto Marlboros of the Ontario Hockey League at the age of 16. He was drafted in the first round, 15th overall by the Chicago Black Hawks in the 1980 NHL Entry Draft. He retired in 1987 after seven years of NHL with the Blackhawks and the Toronto Maple Leafs and AHL hockey with the Springfield Indians and Newmarket Saints.
He started his junior coaching career with the 1998 Thornhill Rattlers of the Ontario Provincial Junior A Hockey League. Within two years the team won the Dudley Hewitt Cup as Central Canadian Junior "A" Champions. In 2006–07, as the coach of the Aurora Tigers, he led the team to the Dudley Hewitt Cup, and then later won the Royal Bank Cup 2007 as National Junior "A" Champions.
When Dupont played in the United States he was given the nickname Jerry, simply because Jerome wasn't a common name among his American teammates.
Dupont was head coach of the Gatineau Olympiques of Quebec Major Junior Hockey League for two seasons, ending in 2010. He was also head coach of the Cobourg Cougars of the Ontario Junior Hockey League for the 2018-19 season.
Career statistics
=Regular season and playoffs=
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! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Regular season ! rowspan="100" bgcolor="#ffffff"| ! colspan="5"|Playoffs | ||||||||
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! Season ! Team ! League ! GP !! G !! A !! Pts !! PIM | ||||||||
| 1978–79
| OPJHL | — | — | — | — | —
| — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1978–79 | OMJHL | 68 | 5 | 21 | 26 | 49
| 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979–80
| Toronto Marlboros | OMJHL | 67 | 7 | 37 | 44 | 88
| 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1980–81 | Toronto Marlboros | OHL | 67 | 6 | 38 | 44 | 116
| 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 1981–82
| NHL | 34 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 51
| — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1981–82 | Toronto Marlboros | OHL | 7 | 0 | 8 | 8 | 18
| 10 | 3 | 9 | 12 | 24 |
| 1982–83
| Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
| — | — | — | — | — |
| bgcolor="#f0f0f0"
| 1982–83 | AHL | 78 | 12 | 22 | 34 | 114
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1983–84
| Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 36 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 116
| 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 |
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| 1983–84 | Springfield Indians | AHL | 12 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 65
| — | — | — | — | — |
| 1984–85
| Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 55 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 105
| 15 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 41 |
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| 1985–86 | Chicago Black Hawks | NHL | 75 | 2 | 13 | 15 | 173
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986–87
| NHL | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23
| — | — | — | — | — |
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| 1986–87 | AHL | 29 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 47
| — | — | — | — | — |
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! colspan="3" | AHL totals ! 119 !! 15 !! 33 !! 48 !! 226 ! — !! — !! — !! — !! — | ||||||||
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! colspan="3" | NHL totals ! 214 !! 7 !! 29 !! 36 !! 468 ! 20 !! 0 !! 2 !! 2 !! 56 |
References
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External links
- {{Ice hockey stats}}
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Category:Canadian ice hockey defencemen
Category:Chicago Blackhawks draft picks
Category:Chicago Blackhawks players
Category:Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States
Category:Gatineau Olympiques coaches
Category:NHL first-round draft picks
Category:Ice hockey people from Ottawa
Category:Toronto Maple Leafs players