Donald Audette

[Passchendaele]

How good was he?

I remember reading an article where it was mentioned that he is only 5'6" and the NHL had him billed at 5'8", regardless.

He was traded to MTL in late 2001, and looked really good until his wrist was sliced by a skate.

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[Peter Tosh]

He had an outlier season in 2000-01 at almost PPG pace.

 

[Canadiens1958]

Sneaky good finesse 3rd to 2nd liner offensively. Not much defensively.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

"nice little player" is a good description.

I remember when he had his wrist sliced, scary stuff that I can't believe doesn't happen once a month

 

[MadLuke]

He was traded to MTL in late 2001, and looked really good until his wrist was sliced by a skate.

In my mind (fuzzy memory) him and is line was on a nice hot streak and the team was going really well before that injury, but then I look at hockey reference game logs and it was 1 goal 4 assist in 6 game, that era (specially Montreal) was so low scoring.

 

[BenchBrawl]

Poor man Brière?

 

[JianYang]

Slippery player. Here's my favourite audette moment as a hab which also shows how sneaky he could be even later in his career..

On that note, please bring this goal song back for the love of god.

 

[vikash1987]

Audette was a great talent and a pure goal scorer on the wing, with a relatively high shooting % as I recall. He broke in with 30 goals in 60 games in his rookie season, which was on par with Pavel Bure, who won the Calder that year. Throughout the ‘90s, he was a consistent offensive leader for Buffalo, despite being hampered by injuries.

The skate injury was awfully scary when I saw it on TV, but thank Heavens he recovered from that.

 

[DickSmehlik]

He was third on the Sabres depth chart as far as snipers in his first few years in the league (behind Andreychuk and Mogilny) but played a more prominent role when Andreychuk was traded.

He had a good shot and deceptive speed and scored a good chunk of his goals on the PP from what I recalled. Came back to the Sabres for a cup of coffee during the '00-'01 season and then didn't last long after that from what I remember.

 

[GMR]

I honestly haven't heard his name in about 15 years. One of those players you totally forget.

As others pointed out, he was small, fast, and had a good scoring touch, but was not a great player. Guy you'd like to have on your team for secondary scoring.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Better than his son

 

[MS]

Speedy little sniper with great hands and a deadly accurate shot. Closest player in the NHL now would probably be Cam Atkinson.

Audette’s career and legacy were really wrecked by injury. Was on target for 30-40 goals pretty much every year from 1991-2001 but was just constantly hurt. With a healthy career and 7-8 30 goal seasons and 350 career goals he’d probably be a bit better remembered.

 

[Boxscore]

Poor man Brière?

He actually reminds me a little more of a Jeff Skinner type. Winger, slippery, real nice hands, great near the paint. Briere was mostly used as a centerman and he was surprisingly chippy for a small "skilled" player.