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| rdfs:comment | - Gosselin played his junior hockey for the Shawinigan Cataractes of the QMJHL from 1980–1981 to 1982–1983. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques with 55th pick (third round) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He was then recruited by the Canadian National Team, for which he played in 1983–1984 and 1984–1985. He helped Team Canada to finish fourth at the 1984 Winter Olympics and was the first Thetford Mines native to take part in the Olympic Games.
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| Biography | - Mario Gosselin is a Canadian professional racecar driver who races in USAR Hooters Pro Cup, ARCA RE/MAX, Late Models Stock and NASCAR Sprint Cup series. In 2004, he became the first native of the Province of Quebec to start in a Sprint Cup race in Martinsville.
Biography
Mario Gosselin is a native of Sainte-Marie, Quebec. He lived there before moving with his family to Florida in 1981. He settled in Lake Wales, Florida a few years ago.
Mario is a multiple winner on the ARCA RE/MAX Series and 2-time USAR Hooters Pro Cup Series Champion. He began his racing career in 1990 at Hialeah, Florida by winning the Pure Stock Division Championship.
He moved into Late Models the very next year and has multiple championships and many wins to his credit at various speedways. Recently he won at the Nashville Superspeedway in the ARCA RE/MAX series in 2003 and finished third in the March 2005 race.
Other highlights include qualifying on the pole and winning his very first ARCA RE/MAX start. That first ARCA victory came at the Lowes Motor Speedway in Charlotte, N.C... When in NASCAR Nextel Cup, he races for Stan Hover Motorsports
Trivia
*His nickname is Super Mario
External Links
*Official website
*Mario Gosselin at racing-reference.info
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| abstract | - Gosselin played his junior hockey for the Shawinigan Cataractes of the QMJHL from 1980–1981 to 1982–1983. He was drafted by the Quebec Nordiques with 55th pick (third round) of the 1982 NHL Entry Draft. He was then recruited by the Canadian National Team, for which he played in 1983–1984 and 1984–1985. He helped Team Canada to finish fourth at the 1984 Winter Olympics and was the first Thetford Mines native to take part in the Olympic Games. Back from the Olympics, he played three games for the Quebec Nordiques in 1984–1985 and stayed there until the 1988–89 NHL season, with very briefs stints with the Fredericton Express and the Halifax Citadels of the American Hockey League. After a couple of seasons, the Nordiques didn't renew his contract on June 6th, 1989 and he signed with the Los Angeles Kings, for one season. Mario Gosselin was the first goaltender in NHL history to lose a game without giving up a goal. Gosselin filled in for Kelly Hrudey and the Kings would give up an empty net goal. The result was a 7-6 loss to the Edmonton Oilers. In 1990–1991, he signed with the Hartford Whalers and played for their minor league affiliates the Phoenix Roadrunners and the Springfield Indians the next three seasons, being recalled by the Whalers for 16 games in 1992–1993. The following season, he played 2 games in Springfield and 7 in Hartford before suffering a knee injury that ended his season and career. He then worked as a radio analyst for the Roadrunners games and hockey coordinator at the YMCA before moving back to the province of Quebec in 1997. He now lives in Laprairie, Quebec with his wife and two sons, Francis and Yannick, and gives hockey clinics for the Énergie Hockey School.
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