Jean-Sébastien Giguère

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Position	Goaltender
Catches	Left
Nickname	J.S, Jiggy
Height Weight	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) 200 lb (91 kg)
NHL Team F. Teams	Anaheim Ducks Hartford Whalers Calgary Flames
Nationality	Canada
Born	May 16, 1977, Montreal, PQ, CAN
NHL Draft	13th overall, 1995 Hartford Whalers
Pro Career	1997 – present

Jean-Sebastien "Jiggy" Giguere (born May 16, 1977, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian professional hockey goaltender.

Giguere plays for the National Hockey League's Anaheim Ducks. He was drafted 13th overall by the Hartford Whalers in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft. He has played for the Verdun Collège-Français, Halifax Mooseheads, Hartford Whalers, Saint John Flames, Calgary Flames, Cincinnati Mighty Ducks and Mighty Ducks of Anaheim.

Contents 1 NHL career 1.1 NHL beginnings 1.2 2003 Playoffs 1.3 Recent years 2 Transactions 3 Awards/Honours 4 Career statistics 4.1 Regular season 4.2 Playoffs 5 See also

[edit] NHL career

[edit] NHL beginnings

After brief and overall-mediocre stints in the Hartford and Calgary organizations, Giguere was traded by the Flames to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for a 2nd round selection in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. He began the 2000-01 season with the Ducks' farm team in Cincinnati, until he was recalled to their parent club for 34 games. After working with famous goalie coach François Allaire, Giguere regained the confidence he showed in juniors and quickly became Anaheim's newest starter. In the 2002-03 season, Jiggy enjoyed the best season of his NHL career-to-date, with 34 wins, a .920 save percentage and an impressive 8 shutouts.

[edit] 2003 Playoffs

During the 2003 Stanley Cup Playoffs, Giguere led the Mighty Ducks to the Stanley Cup Finals, where they lost in seven games to the New Jersey Devils. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs for his efforts in series wins against the Detroit Red Wings, Dallas Stars and Minnesota Wild and pushing the Finals to the seven game limit. He was a perfect 7-0 in overtime, setting a record for longest amount of playoff overtime played without allowing a goal at 168 minutes, 27 seconds, including multiple overtime victories in Game 1 of each of the first three series. He also held the Wild to an all-time best-of-7 series low of one goal in the entire Western Conference Finals, posting a shutout streak of 217 minutes, 54 seconds during that series. He finished with a 15-6 record, a 1.62 Goals Against Average and .945 Save Percentage (the best of all playoff goaltenders that year), and fewer losses than his Finals counterpart Martin Brodeur. He was the fifth player to receive the Conn Smythe Trophy playing for the losing team, the first since Philadelphia's Ron Hextall in 1987.

[edit] Recent years

After being rewarded with a large contract in the off-season, Giguère was inconsistent throughout the 2003-04 season as the Mighty Ducks missed the playoffs. Some hockey pundits speculated that he may have been rattled from having come so close, yet failing to winning the Stanley Cup the previous season.

After the lockout cancelled the 2004-05 season, Giguere returned for the '05-'06 season and appeared to have regained a level of play approaching his 2003 glory. One incident, though, almost proved damaging for him. On January 25, 2006, Anaheim was playing against the Oilers at the Arrowhead Pond, the Ducks' home arena. Ryan Smyth of Edmonton was chirping Giguere consistently. He already drew one minor penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. When Smyth scored a goal off of a feed from Shawn Horcoff, Giguere got angry. The next time that he saw Smyth in the crease, Giguere tripped Smyth. When Smyth stood back up, he got pushed in the face by the disgruntled goalie. These two minor penalties, which were going to be served by Anaheim forward Samuel Pahlsson, were not enough. When an official led Smyth away, he gave a challenge signal to Giguere, who then charged at Smyth and knocked him down onto the ice. It resulted in a ten-minute misconduct. In total, Giguere was awarded 14 penalty minutes, and 16 PIM in total.

In April 2006, he and the Ducks again entered the Stanley Cup Playoffs, but were eliminated in the Western Finals by the Edmonton Oilers. Giguere appeared in just 4 games before being replaced in net by Russian rookie Ilya Bryzgalov. With the first round series on the line, management seemed to have lost faith in Jiggy. In fact, Giguere's club record of consecutive playoff shutout minutes was broken by his backup's surprising string of three consecutive shutouts. His overtime playoff shutout recond however was extended to 8-0 and is still active.

As of December 2006, Giguere seems to have won his starting role back, and is putting up solid numbers for the 2006-2007 season. In October 2006, he did not lose a single game in regulation.

[edit] Transactions

• July 8, 1995 - Drafted by the Hartford Whalers in the 1st round, 13th overall.
• June 25, 1997 - Rights transferred to the Carolina Hurricanes when the Hartford Whalers relocated.
• August 27, 1997 - Traded to the Calgary Flames with Andrew Cassels for Gary Roberts and Trevor Kidd.
• June 10, 2001 - Traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim for a 2nd round pick in 2000 (Matt Pettinger).

[edit] Awards/Honours

• 1996-97 QMJHL Second All-Star Team
• 1997-98 Hap Holmes Memorial Award (AHL) - shared with Tyler Moss as the goalies with 25+ GP for the team with the lowest GAA
• 2002-03 Conn Smythe Trophy

Preceded by Nicklas Lidstrom

Conn Smythe Trophy Winner 2003

Succeeded by Brad Richards

[edit] Career statistics

[edit] Regular season

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	T	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%
1992-93	Laval	QAAA		25	12	11	2	1498	76	0	3.04	n/a
1993-94	Verdun Collège Français	QMJHL		25	13	5	2	1234	66	0	3.21	n/a
1994-95	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		47	14	27	5	2755	181	2	3.94	n/a
1995-96	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		55	26	23	2	3230	185	1	3.44	n/a
1996-97	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		50	28	19	3	3009	169	2	3.37	.902
1996-97	Hartford Whalers	NHL		8	1	4	0	394	24	0	3.65	.881
1997-98	Saint John Flames	AHL		31	16	10	3	1758	72	2	2.46	.926
1998-99	Calgary Flames	NHL		15	6	7	1	860	46	0	3.21	.897
1998-99	Saint John Flames	AHL		39	18	16	3	2145	123	3	3.44	.905
1999-00	Saint John Flames	AHL		41	17	17	3	2243	114	0	3.05	.897
1999-00	Calgary Flames	NHL		7	1	3	1	330	15	0	2.73	.914
2000-01	Cincinnati Mighty Ducks	AHL		23	12	7	2	1306	53	0	2.43	.917
2000-01	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		34	11	17	5	2031	87	4	2.57	.911
2001-02	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		53	20	25	6	3127	111	4	2.13	.920
2002-03	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		65	34	22	6	3775	145	8	2.30	.920
2003-04	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		55	17	31	6	3210	140	3	2.62	.914
2004-05	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		6	n/a	n/a	n/a	302	12	0	2.38	.925
2005-06	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		60	30	15	0	3381	150	2	2.66	.911
NHL REG. SEASON TOTALS				297	120	124	25	17,109	718	21	2.52	.914
AHL REG. SEASON TOTALS				134	63	50	11	7452	362	5	2.70	n/a
QMJHL REG. SEASON TOTALS				177	81	74	12	10228	601	5	3.39	n/a

• Stats as of April 17, 2006

[edit] Playoffs

Season	Team	League		GP	W	L	MIN	GA	SO	GAA	SV%
1994-95	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		7	3	4	417	17	1	2.44	n/a
1995-96	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		6	1	5	354	24	0	4.06	n/a
1996-97	Halifax Mooseheads	QMJHL		16	9	7	954	58	0	3.64	n/a
1997-98	Saint John Flames	AHL		10	5	3	536	27	0	3.02	n/a
1998-99	Saint John Flames	AHL		7	3	2	304	21	0	4.14	n/a
1999-00	Saint John Flames	AHL		3	0	3	178	9	0	3.03	.880
2002-03	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		21	15	6	1407	38	5	1.62	.945
2004-05	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		2	n/a	n/a	100	7	0	4.20	.881
2005-06	Mighty Ducks of Anaheim	NHL		6	3	3	318	18	0	3.40	.864
NHL PLAYOFF TOTALS				27	18	9	1725	56	5	1.95	.932
AHL PLAYOFF TOTALS				20	8	8	1018	57	0	2.85	n/a
QMJHL PLAYOFF TOTALS				29	13	16	1725	99	1	3.41	n/a

• Stats as of May 27, 2006

[edit] See also

• List of NHL players