Jean-François Jacques

Jean- Francois Jacques ( born April 29, 1985 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since January 2013, when the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League contract.

Career

Jean- Francois Jacques was initially active for the Cap-de- Madeleine Estacades in a unterklassigen Canadian junior league in Quebec. Then the striker from 2001 to 2005 went to the Baie- Comeau Drakkar in the Québec Major Junior Hockey League on the ice. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 in the second round than a total of 68 players from the Edmonton Oilers, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League in the 2005/06 season. However, the bulk of the playing time he spent at Edmonton's farm team, the Bulldogs Hamilton of the American Hockey League. In the following seasons Jacques stood respectively for the Oilers, and in addition various AHL teams on the ice. First, in the 2006/07 season for the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and then for each of the Springfield Falcons. Due to a back surgery in the off-season the Canadians fell out for much of the 2008/09 season from league play.

On July 6, 2011 Jacques signed a contract for one year with the Anaheim Ducks. During the 2011/12 season the Canadians completed only six NHL games for the Californians, while winger counted at their farm team Syracuse Crunch of the most prolific actors. In July 2012, he signed as a free agent a one-year contract with the Florida Panthers. In January 2013 he transferred them to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Awards and achievements

• 2003 CHL Top Prospects Game

NHL stats

(End of season 2011 /12)