- Yvon Pedneault
Yvon Pedneault is a
French Canadian sports journalist and television and radio broadcaster fromChicoutimi ,Quebec who is known for his coverage ofice hockey . Pedneault is the only person to work full-time for all three French-language Montreal daily papers, as well as every French-language television station that has carriedMontreal Canadiens games. In 1998, he was awarded theElmer Ferguson Memorial Award , an award given annually by theHockey Hall of Fame to distinguished members of the newspaper profession.Career
Yvon Pedneault joined the local newspaper in Chicoutimi in 1965 as the bowling writer. A year later, Pedneault was the sports editor for "Progrès-Dimanche". In 1965, Pedneault moved to
Montreal where he was hired by Jacques Beauchamp to be a hockey writer for the "Montréal-Matin ". With the "Montréal-Matin", he covered the Montreal Canadiens and the Junior Canadiens, as well as the local horse racing scene. His work would also be published in two other daily newspapers during his career: "La Presse", where he covered the Canadiens, and "Le Journal de Montréal ", where he was a hockey reporter and later served as their sports editor.During his career, Pedneault would also cover the Canadiens on four different television stations in Montreal:
Réseau des sports ,Télévision de Radio-Canada , TVA andTQS . Because of this, Pedneault is the only person to work full-time for all three French-language Montreal daily papers, as well as every French-language television station that has carried Montreal Canadiens games.Pedneault was host of one of North America's longest running sports talk, radio call-in shows, called "Les amateurs de sports" in the '70s on CKAC in Montreal (the program airs to this day).
Pedneault would also cover several
Olympic games . [cite web|url=http://www.rds.ca/chroniqueurs/expert_yvonpedn.html|title=Yvon Pedneault (French)|accessdate=2008-01-02|publisher=Réseau des sports]Pedneault also briefly served as the General Manager of
Le Collège Français de Longueuil in theQuebec Major Junior Hockey League . [cite web|url=http://www.radio-canada.ca/allosaltlake/olympiques/equipe/yvon_pedneault.asp|title=Yvon Pedneault (French)|accessdate=2008-01-02|publisher=Radio Canada]In 1998, he was awarded the
Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award , an award given annually by theHockey Hall of Fame to distinguished members of the newspaper profession.cite web|url=http://www.legendsofhockey.net/html/ind98.htm|title=1998 Hockey Hall of Fame Inductees |accessdate=2008-01-02|publisher=Hockey Hall of Fame]
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