Francis Lessard

Francis Lessard (* May 30, 1979 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player in the position of right winger, who is since August 2010 with the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League contract. He is regarded as so-called Enforcer.

Career

Francis Lessard began his career in 1996 at Val- d'Or Quebec Major Junior Foreurs in the Hockey League and was two years for the crew actively. Already there he fell on account of its hardness and had therefore many minutes on the penalty bench to settle. In 148 games, he brought it to 751 penalty minutes. Between 1998 and 1999 he played for the Drummondville Voltigeurs. Lessard had been selected at the NHL Entry Draft in 1997 by the Carolina Hurricanes in the third round to 80th position.

However, he never played for Carolina and was delivered to the Philadelphia Phantoms in the American Hockey League. After three years he moved to the end of the 2001/02 season for the first time to an NHL team and played for the Atlanta Thrashers. The most part, but he was employed in the Chicago Wolves in the AHL. With these he won in the same season the Calder Cup. Only in the season 2003/ 04 he returned to Atlanta and went with moderate success for the team on the ice. The 2005/06 season he played mostly back for the Chicago Wolves and between 2006 and 2008 at the Hartford Wolf Pack.

There were other stations in the San Antonio Rampage and Phoenix Coyotes. He not made ​​the jump to the NHL and was demoted to the San Antonio Rampage. After the 2009/10 season his contract was with the Phoenix Coyotes, for which he had never played, not extended and Lessard agreed as a free agent in August 2010 on a collaboration with the Ottawa Senators. In the course of the season 2010/11 the Canadians played mainly for the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League and filled his role as a Enforcer, but also came to 24 inserts for the Ottawa Senators in the NHL.

Awards and achievements

NHL stats

(End of season 2009/10)