13 Facts About Marcel Aubut

Marcel Aubut was a board member of many businesses and organizations.

Marcel Aubut was called to the Quebec Bar in 1972 and was created a Queen's Counsel in 1987.

Marcel Aubut was a member of the National Hockey League's Board of Governors.

Marcel Aubut is the former president of the Canadian Olympic Committee.

Marcel Aubut was instrumental in the defections of Anton, Marian and Peter Stastny from communist Czechoslovakia to play for the Quebec Nordiques.

Marcel Aubut was president of the Nordiques when the team was sold to an American communications company and moved to Denver in 1995, becoming the Colorado Avalanche.

Maclean's magazine reported that Aubut personally made $15 million from the sale and that T-shirts reading "Marcel Aubut: Wanted Dead or Alive" were not an uncommon sight in Quebec City at the time.

Marcel Aubut argued that with the new NHL collective bargaining agreement and the coming 400th anniversary of Quebec City in 2008, the city could build a new arena or a stadium.

On October 9,2009 Marcel Aubut met with NHL commissioner Gary Bettman.

Marcel Aubut was named a member at large of the Canadian Olympic Committee in 2000, and was elected to the Board of Governors and Executive Committee in 2005.

Marcel Aubut was the first francophone ever elected President of the COC.

In 2014 Marcel Aubut was acclaimed to a second four-year term as President.

Marcel Aubut served as a member of the Board of the organizing committee for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver and the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, and was appointed to the International Relations Commission of the International Olympic Committee.