Marcel Aubut

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Marcel Aubut (born 1948) is a Canadian lawyer and former president and Chief Executive Officer of the Quebec Nordiques of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Born in Saint-Hubert-de-Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, he received from the Académie de Québec a Bachelor of Arts in 1968 and from Université Laval a Bachelor of Law in 1970. He was called to the Quebec Bar in 1972. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1987.

He was a member of the National Hockey League's Board of Governors. He is a member of the Canadian Olympic Committee Executive Committee and is currently a Quebec City-based lawyer with the law firm Heenan Blaikie.

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

In 1986, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1993. In 2006, he was made an Officer of the National Order of Quebec. In 1999, he was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.

Recently, he proposed Quebec City as home of a new NHL team. 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 and/or a stadium.