Patrice Cormier

Patrice Cormier ( born June 14, 1990 in Moncton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since June 2011 the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League under contract on their farm team, the St. John's IceCaps in the American Hockey League. His brother Kevin is also a professional hockey player.

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Career

Patrice Cormier began his career as a hockey player with the Moncton Gagnon Beavers in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League, for whom he went on the ice from 2004 to 2006. Following Cormier moved to L' Océanic de Rimouski, for which he was active from 2006 to 2010 in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2008 in the second round than a total of 54 players, of the New Jersey Devils, however, remained in Rimouski. On 8 January 2010, the Center moved within the QMJHL with the Huskies de Rouyn -Noranda. In only his third game for the Huskies, he injured his opponent Mikael Tam 18 January 2010 with a deliberate elbow check, for which he was suspended for the rest of the regular season and the entire playoffs from the league of the QMJHL.

On 4 February 2010 Cormier was with Johnny Oduya and Bergfors Nicklas, and transferred a Erstrundenwahlrecht for the NHL Entry Draft in 2010 by the New Jersey Devils in exchange for Ilya Kovalchuk and Anssi Salmela to the Atlanta Thrashers. For their farm team, the Chicago Wolves, was the shooter left in the Calder Cup playoffs of the 2009/10 season his debut in professional hockey. In nine games, he remained no points and received eight penalty minutes. The 2010/11 season he joined the Chicago Wolves and was first appointed in the course of the season in the NHL Atlanta Thrashers squad, for whom he made ​​his debut in the National Hockey League on 28 December 2010, compared with his sixth deployment in the encounter the Toronto Maple Leafs scored his first hit.

Internationally

For Canada, Cormier took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2009 and 2010. At the 2010 U20 World Cup he won with his team the silver medal, a year before he was with Canada U20 Junior World Champion. He himself contributed to this success with three goals and five assists in twelve games. At the 2010 U20 World Cup, he was also captain of Canada.

Awards and achievements

  • 2008 CHL Top Prospects Game
  • 2009 Memorial Cup All-Star Team

Internationally

  • 2009 Gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
  • 2010 Silver medal at the U20 World Junior Championships

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)

2008 NHL Entry Draft Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Farmteam 2010 NHL Entry Draft 2009–10 AHL season Canada men's national ice hockey team 2009 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships 2010 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships CHL/NHL Top Prospects Game
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