Mario Tremblay: 1975-76 O-Pee-Chee 223

1975-76 O-Pee-Chee 223 Mario Tremblay Hockey Card (Front)

1975-76 O-Pee-Chee 223 Mario Tremblay Hockey Card (Back)

1975-76 O-Pee-Chee NHL Checklist

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Card Notes

One of 10 Canadiens to score over 20 goals last season. Scored an even 100 points in his final season of junior competition. Montreal selected him in the first round of the 1974 amateur draft.

En Français

Un des dix Canadiens à marquer plus de 20 buts la saison dernière. Durant sa dernière saison comme junior, il contribua exactement 100 points. Choisi par Montréal à la première ronde du repêchage des amateurs en 1974.

Details

Of course, there’s a rather big ERROR on the front of this 1975-76 O-Pee-Chee Mario Tremblay rookie card. The player pictured is not Tremblay but Gord McTavish. Gord was also a prospect of the Montreal Canadiens, selected in the first round of the 1974 NHL Amateur Draft, 15th overall. McTavish never played for Montreal but did appear in a total of eleven NHL games, one with the St. Louis Blues in 1978-79 and ten with the Winnipeg Jets in 1979-80.

Tremblay scored 21 goals in his rookie 1974-75 NHL season and was ninth on the Montreal Canadiens in that category. Serge Savard rounded out the team’s 20 goal scorers with exactly 20. His 100 point season in junior came in 1973-74 with the Montreal Red White and Blue, scoring 49 goals and assisting on 51 over just 46 games.

His 21 goals in 1974-75 were scored over just 63 games after starting the season in the AHL with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs. In his second NHL game, Tremblay scored a pair for the Habs. On November 16, 1974 at home in a 4-4 tie against the New York Rangers, Mario put two goals past Ed Giacomin, both assisted by Yvon Lambert.

1975-76 would see his goal total drop to eleven over 71 games. Tremblay would eventually rebound and have four seasons with 30 or more goals, topping out with a career high of 33 in 1981-82. That number was aided by his second of three career hat tricks coming against the Hartford Whalers in a 7-2 win on October 15, 1981.

Between 1974-75 and 1985-86, Mario Tremblay played 852 regular season and 101 playoff games in the National Hockey League, all with the Montreal Canadiens. He was a four time Stanley Cup winner with the Habs. He played 56 games during the regular season in 1985-86 but did not appear in the post season when Montreal captured the title, taking out the Calgary Flames in the final.

Mario Tremblay NHL Career Stats

Regular Season

Year	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1974-75	Montreal Canadiens	63	21	18	39	108
1975-76	Montreal Canadiens	71	11	16	27	88
1976-77	Montreal Canadiens	74	18	28	46	61
1977-78	Montreal Canadiens	56	10	14	24	44
1978-79	Montreal Canadiens	76	30	29	59	74
1979-80	Montreal Canadiens	77	16	26	42	105
1980-81	Montreal Canadiens	77	25	38	63	123
1981-82	Montreal Canadiens	80	33	40	73	66
1982-83	Montreal Canadiens	80	30	37	67	87
1983-84	Montreal Canadiens	67	14	25	39	112
1984-85	Montreal Canadiens	75	31	35	66	120
1985-86	Montreal Canadiens	56	19	20	39	55
	Totals	852	258	326	584	1043

Playoffs

Year	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
1974-75	Montreal Canadiens	11	0	1	1	7
1975-76	Montreal Canadiens	10	0	1	1	27
1976-77	Montreal Canadiens	14	3	0	3	9
1977-78	Montreal Canadiens	5	2	1	3	16
1978-79	Montreal Canadiens	13	3	4	7	13
1979-80	Montreal Canadiens	10	0	11	11	14
1980-81	Montreal Canadiens	3	0	0	0	9
1981-82	Montreal Canadiens	5	4	1	5	24
1982-83	Montreal Canadiens	3	0	1	1	7
1983-84	Montreal Canadiens	15	6	3	9	31
1984-85	Montreal Canadiens	12	2	6	8	30
1985-86	Montreal Canadiens	0	0	0	0	0
	Totals	101	20	29	49	187