Larry Pleau
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Larry Pleau 1976
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| Born |
June 29, 1947 Lynn, MA, USA |
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| Height | 6 ft 1 in (185 cm) | ||
| Weight | 185 lb (84 kg; 13 st 3 lb) | ||
| Position | Center | ||
| Shot | Left | ||
| Played for |
New England Whalers (WHA) Springfield Indians (AHL) Montreal Canadiens (NHL) Nova Scotia Voyageurs Jersey Devils (EHL) |
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| National team |
 United States
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| Playing career | 1968–1979 | ||
Lawrence Winslow Pleau (born June 29, 1947) is a former senior vice president and General Manager of the St. Louis Blues. He is also a former NHL player and head coach.
Larry Pleau played for Lynn English High School Bulldogs in Lynn, Massachusetts from 1963 to 1964 before moving to Canada where he spent the next three seasons with the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the OHA from 1964 to 1967.
Pleau was one of the top American hockey players in the late 1960s and early 1970s, playing for Team USA at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble as well as the 1969 Ice Hockey World Championship tournament in .
He spent the 1968–69 season with the Jersey Devils of the Eastern Hockey League, becoming the league's rookie of the year.
He then played three seasons for the Montreal Canadiens from 1970-1972. He helped Montreal to the Stanley Cup championship in 1971. He was included on the team winning picture and has a cup ring, but did not play enough games to be engraved on the Stanley cup. After being selected off waivers by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the summer of 1972, he instead choose to sign a contract with his hometown New England Whalers of the upstart World Hockey Association. Pleau became one of the Whalers' early stars and appeared in the 1973, 1974 and 1975 WHA All Star Game as the Whalers representative. He was also a member of the United States team at the inaugural 1976 Canada Cup although he did not appear in the tournament itself. He played seven seasons for the Whalers before retiring in 1979.
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