Career Statistics / ECAC Hockey Release

TROY, N.Y. – ECAC Hockey has announced its second group of former student-athletes who make up its top 50 players of all time and Joé Juneau, a standout forward at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) from 1987-91, is included. Juneau is the second former Engineers player to be recognized as part of league's 50th anniversary celebration. Bob Brinkworth '64 was previously named.

Juneau, an aeronautical engineering major from Pont-Rouge, Que., enjoyed a tremendous collegiate career before having an outstanding tenure in the National Hockey League. Among his on-ice accomplishments while at Rensselaer were:
• Scoring 69 goals with 144 assists for 213 points in 124 games … He also had 57 penalties for 157 minutes
• Serving as captain in 1990-91
• Leading the team in assists all four years (29, 23, 52, 40)
• Leading the team in points all four years (45, 35, 70, 63)
• Leading ECAC Hockey in points in 1989-90 (70 in 34 games, including 50 in 22 league games)
• Ranking third (52 in 1989-90) and eighth (40 in 1990-91) in school history for single season assists
• Ranking second in school history for career assists
• Ranking fifth in school history for career points
• Selection to the league's All-Rookie Team in 1987-88
• Earning All-League First Team in 1989-90, All-League Second Team in 1990-91 and All-League Honorable Mention in 1987-88
• Earning National All-America First Team in 1989-90 and National All-America Second Team in 1990-91
• Being named a Hobey Baker Award finalist in 1989-90 and 1990-91
• Being named to the ECAC Hockey All-Decade Team of the 1990s
• Earning Rensselaer's Male Freshman Athlete of the Year in 1988
• Earning Rensselaer's Male Career Athlete of the Year in 1990
• Being drafted by the Boston Bruins in the fourth round of the 1988 NHL Entry Draft
• Playing for Team Canada in 1990, 1991 and in the 1992 Olympics, where he won a silver medal

Professionally, Juneau had a distinguished 13-year career in the National Hockey League, during which he:
• Played for Boston, Washington, Buffalo, Ottawa, Phoenix and Montreal
• Amassed 156 goals and 416 assists for 572 points in 828 games … He also had 272 penalty minutes
• Scored 25 goals with 54 assists in 112 career playoff games
• Registered 70 assists and 102 points in 1992-93 with the Bruins – both team rookie records
• Was named to the 1993 All-Rookie Team
• Finished second in voting for the 1993 Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL's top rookie

Since retiring following the 2003-04 season, Juneau has been active as a humanitarian, working with the youths of the Canadian Arctic, among many other activities. He has also served his native Canada in a variety of ways, including as Assistant Chef de Mission for the Canadian Olympic Team at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games.

Joining Juneau, who is a member of Rensselaer's Athletic Hall of Fame and its Hockey Ring of Honor, in the league's second group in the top 50 players of all time are Ray Giroux '98 of Yale, Andy McDonald '00 of Colgate, Joe Nieuwendyk '87 of Cornell and Ron Wilson '77 of Providence. The top 50 players in ECAC Hockey history were determined by a selection committee made up of former coaches and media members. The league will release the names of five players every two weeks throughout the season leading up the championship in March 18-19 in Atlantic City.