# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilles-meloche
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:17:14.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gilles-meloche"
name: "Gilles Meloche"
slug: "gilles-meloche"
description: "Gilles Emile Meloche is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach, scout and former player. Meloche played as a goaltender in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks, California Golden Seals, Cleveland Barons, Minnesota North Stars and Pittsburgh Penguins. He is currently a special assignment scout for the Pittsburgh Penguins. Until 2013 he was the team's longtime goaltending coach, during which time the team won three Stanley Cups. Meloche was born in Montreal, Quebec."
tagline: "Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and scout"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Gilles_Meloche_2011-12-03.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Canada"
  isoCode: "CA"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1950-07-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.7
  momentum:             2.83433133732535
  historical:           6.823148
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%96%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%88"
    title: "Жиль Мелош"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%B3_%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B4"
    title: "جيليس ميلوتش"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilles_Meloche"
    title: "Gilles Meloche"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2749911"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump