Guy Trottier: Coach and Star of the Buffalo Norsemen

Guy Trottier played his last of 14 years in professional hockey with the Buffalo Norsemen of the NAHL. Trottier also acted as the head coach of the Norsemen, a team that finished fourth in the West Division with 30 wins and 60 points over the 74 game schedule. Buffalo met the Johnstown Jets in the opening round and lost three games to two. The final and deciding game of the series was a 1-0 win by the Jets. Trottier finished the year with a respectable 36 goals and 22 assists for 58 points over 56 regular season games.

Trottier played pro from 1963-64 to 1975-76, appearing in five different leagues, the IHL, AHL, NHL, WHA and NAHL. At the highest level, Guy played 115 games in the National Hockey League between 1968-69 and 1971-72 with the New York Rangers and Toronto Maple Leafs. His World Hockey Association career lasted 174 games from 1972-73 to 1974-75 with the Ottawa Nationals, Toronto Toros and Michigan Stags.

In just his second year of pro hockey, Trottier tied for fourth place in the IHL with 46 goals as a member of the Dayton Gems. The following year, the numbers improved greatly with Guy placing third with 68 goals and tied for second with 132 points, just one off the leader. In 1966-67, He scored a career high 71 goals with the Gems to lead the IHL, 19 goals more than the second place finisher. His 135 point placed his second, four behind Len Thornson of the Fort Wayne Komets.

Trottier led the American Hockey League in goal scoring for the 1968-69 and 1969-70 seasons with the Buffalo Bisons. In the first year, he scored 45 goals and in 1969-70, the final year of existence for the Bisons, Guy scored 55.

Only two mainstream hockey cards were ever produced featuring Trottier. His 1971-72 O-Pee-Chee rookie card is valued as a common. The card had him in a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey. His 1972-73 O-Pee-Chee card is valued at a whopping $8 as it’s part of the first set of WHA hockey cards that came at the back end of the 1972-73 NHL set. Guy is on the card as a member of the Ottawa Nationals.

Season	Team	Lge	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1957-58	Trois Rivieres Lions	QHL	2	0	0	0	0
1963-64	Phila-.Greensboro	EHL	27	14	16	30	38
1963-64	Port Huron Flags	IHL	42	19	15	34	52
1964-65	Dayton Gems	IHL	68	46	42	88	56
1965-66	Dayton Gems	IHL	66	68	64	132	16
1966-67	Dayton Gems	IHL	67	71	64	135	23
1967-68	Buffalo Bisons	AHL	41	16	19	35	6
1968-69	New York Rangers	NHL	2	0	0	0	0
1968-69	Buffalo Bisons	AHL	72	45	37	82	21
1969-70	Buffalo Bisons	AHL	71	55	33	88	8
1970-71	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	61	19	5	24	21
1971-72	Toronto Maple Leafs	NHL	52	9	12	21	16
1972-73	Ottawa Nationals	WHA	72	26	32	58	25
1973-74	Toronto Toros	WHA	71	27	35	62	58
1974-75	Dayton Gems	IHL	20	12	5	17	6
1974-75	Toronto Toros	WHA	14	4	4	8	4
1974-75	Michigan Stags/Baltimore Blades	WHA	17	5	4	9	2
1975-76	Buffalo Norsemen	NAHL	56	36	22	58	59
	NHL Totals		115	28	17	45	37
	WHA Totals		174	62	75	137	89