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Serge Aubry • Serge Dieudonne Aubry

Height: 5-9
Weight: 160
Catch: L
Born: 2 Jan 1942, Montreal PQ (d. 2011)

 

Regular Season Goaltending Record (key)

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l-t
gaa
a
pim
1972-73 Quebec
52
3036
182
1
25-22-2
3.60
0
54
1973-74 Quebec
26
1395
90
1
11-11-2
3.87
1
8
1974-75 Quebec
31
1762
109
0
17-11-0
3.71
1
22
1975-76 Cincinnati
12
549
38
1
6-4-0
4.15
1
4
1976-77 Quebec
21
769
51
1
6-8-0
3.98
1
0
Totals:
142
7511
470
4
65-56-4
3.75
4
88

Playoff Goaltending Record

year team
gp
min
ga
sho
w-l
gaa
a
pim
1977 Quebec
3
18
1
0
0-0
3.33
0
0
Totals:
3
18
1
0
0-0
3.33
0
0

Shutouts

Date Opponent Home/Away Score Saves
Oct 13, 1972AlbertaHome6-028
Feb 6, 1974New EnglandAway3-034
Oct 11, 1975ClevelandAway1-038
Nov 25, 1976IndianapolisAway5-027

• Shared shutout with Richard Brodeur on Feb 7, 1973.

 

It's Not Too Late to Break Through at 30 • by Claude LaRochelle • The Hockey Spectator • November 10, 1972

Serge Aubry, a goaltender from the old capital, has always been an athlete full of talent, yet a series of circumstances kept him from breaking through into the spotlight.

"Who is Serge Aubry?" wondered Quebec City hockey fans in unison the day last summer when general manager Marius Fortier announced that the Quebec Nordiques of the World Hockey Association had solved their goaltending problems by signing Serge Aubry.

Serge is a dyed-in-the-wool Quebecer, a city he has always returned to between long hockey seasons. But few people remember seeing him shine brightly in Quebec's metropolitan junior hockey league, wearing the colors of Baronet when he was only 15. At a very young age, he left to earn his living playing hockey elsewhere.

Serge, now 30 years old, has accomplished impressive feats since leaving, though always in amateur ranks. For two years, wearing the colors of the Verdun Maple Leafs, he was named the best junior goaltender in Quebec. Later, playing for the Sherbrooke club coached by Georges Roy, he helped win the championship and the Bunny Ahearne Trophy in Moscow.

He accomplished feats impressive enough to attract the attention of professional teams, to the point that the Detroit Red Wings, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Vancouver Canucks each took an interest in him in turn — but every time, some obstacle got in the way, blocking his path and pushing him back into the anonymity of the American League. Last year, with the way blocked in Vancouver by George Gardner and Dunc Wilson, he was still languishing in Rochester.

"I believed in the World Association right away," Aubry confided. "I never had the slightest doubt that this league would get off the ground and be successful. At the same time, it represented hope for all those like me who never had the chance to prove themselves."

Last February in Anaheim, he was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques. When he learned the news, Aubry already knew he would turn his back on the Vancouver Canucks organization:

"I would have played anywhere in the World Hockey Association," he said. "I would have played for San Francisco, which had been chosen before Quebec. But when I found out Quebec was in the league, I was doubly satisfied, and I made up my mind to seize the opportunity to prove that I was capable of doing something as a goaltender."

Serge Aubry had to wait until 1972 to finally reach major-league hockey. Yet as early as 1967, he had almost made it after an indescribably good training camp with the Toronto Maple Leafs, but at the last moment the sentimental Punch Imlach held on to Johnny Bower and Bruce Gamble.

Later, while Aubry was in the minors in Tulsa, the Leafs remembered the brilliant goaltender.

"Right before a game in Tulsa, they told me Toronto was calling me up and that I was guaranteed to play for them," Serge recounts. "That same evening, I caught my skate in a crack in front of my net, twisted my foot, and they put me on the injured list for six weeks. I never saw Toronto again after that."

At last, Serge Aubry is getting his chance with the Quebec Nordiques. Is it too late to break through at age 30?

"No," Serge replies energetically. "I think I'll have time to make the most of it. Johnny Bower was past 30 when he arrived in the National League. I'm confident about the future."

 

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