Steve Plouffe (born November 23, 1975) is a

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retired professional

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Career

Plouffe started his career in the

Central Hockey League The Central Hockey League (CHL) was a North American mid-level minor professional ice hockey league which operated from 1992 until 2014. It was founded by Ray Miron and Bill Levins and later sold to Global Entertainment Corporation, which opera ...

with the

Fort Worth Fire The Fort Worth Fire were a professional ice hockey team in the Central Hockey League. Their home games were played in the Fort Worth Convention Center Arena. They began operations in 1992 and ceased operations in 1999. At the conclusion of the ...

. As a member of the Fire, Plouffe led the league with 38 wins and was a member of the 1996-97 team that won the CHL Championship. The following season, Plouffe played as the starting goaltender for the

Johnstown Chiefs The Johnstown Chiefs were a minor league ice hockey team located in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, that played in the ECHL. The team was founded in 1987 in the All-American Hockey League, and moved to the East Coast Hockey League (now "ECHL") when that ...

. As a member of the Chiefs, Plouffe won 11 games in 44 appearances and set an ECHL single-season record for the longest winless streak with 11 games without a win.ECHL.com: Regular Season Individual Records (.pdf)
The record has since been broken several times, which includes a 22-game winless streak by former

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goaltender Jeff Weber during the 2005-06 ECHL season. He returned to Fort Worth for the 1998-99 season, where he skated with the

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of the WPHL Plouffe spent three seasons playing in the

Russian Superleague The Russian Superleague (russian: Чемпионат России Суперлига, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was consi ...

. He skated with the

Amur Khabarovsk Hockey Club Amur (russian: Хоккейный клуб Амур), commonly referred to as the Amur Khabarovsk, is a Russian professional ice hockey team based in Khabarovsk. They are members of the Chernyshev Division of the Kontinental Hockey Le ...

from 1999 until 2001 and returned to Russia in 2002 where he made 40 appearances with the

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. Plouffe returned to Canada to skate in the LNAH for three seasons. He skated with the Sorel Royeaux for the 2003-04 season. The Royeaux folded after the season, but the St. Jean Mission moved from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu to Sorel in the offseason, allowing Plouffe to stay in Sorel from 2004 to 2006 as a member of the newly named Sorel-Tracy Mission to finish his career.

Awards

CHL

*1996-97

Ray Miron President's Cup The Ray Miron President's Cup is a trophy that was awarded to the playoff champion of the Central Hockey League (CHL) from 2002 until 2014, when the remaining CHL teams joined the ECHL. The trophy was known as The William "Bill" Levins Memorial Cup ...

*1996-97 Presidents Cup Playoff MVP

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Plouffe, Steve 1975 births Amur Khabarovsk players Buffalo Sabres draft picks Canadian ice hockey goaltenders Fort Worth Fire players Fort Worth Brahmas players Granby Bisons players HC Spartak Moscow players Johnstown Chiefs players Living people Shawinigan Cataractes players Ice hockey people from Montreal Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States