Antoine Vermette
Antoine Vermette ( born July 20, 1982 in Saint- Agapit, Lotbinière ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is since February 2012 at the Phoenix Coyotes of the National Hockey League contract.
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Career
Antoine Vermette began his career as a hockey player in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, where he eventually was for three seasons from 1999 to 2003 initially for one year for the Quebec Remparts and active for the Victoriaville Tigres. During this time he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2000 in the second round than a total of 55 players from the Ottawa Senators.
After the attacker in the season 2002/ 03 exclusively for Ottawa's farm team, which, in the American Hockey League was Binghamton Senators on the ice, he played in the following year, mainly for Ottawa in the National Hockey League before he during the lockout in the NHL season 2004/ 05, in turn, ran aground exclusively for Binghamton. From the summer of 2005 played Vermette only in the NHL Ottawa and reached with his team in the season 2006 /07 the final of the Stanley Cup, in which he lost his team the Anaheim Ducks. Shortly before the end of the Trade Deadline in the 2008 /09 season gave the Senators from the Canadians for Pascal Leclaire and a second-round vote in NHL Entry Draft 2009 to the Columbus Blue Jackets.
On 22 February 2012 it transferred the Columbus Blue Jackets in exchange for Curtis McElhinney, a second-round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2012 and a fifth -round vote in the NHL Entry Draft in 2013 to the Phoenix Coyotes.
Internationally
Vermette represented his native Canada at the World Championship 2011 in Slovakia. He came in four tournament games used, where it remained no points. Canadians eliminated in the quarter- final against Russia.
Awards and achievements
- 2000 CHL Top Prospects Game
- 2000 Trophée Michael Bossy
- 2002 Coupe du Président - profit with the Victoriaville Tigres
- 2003 AHL All- Rookie Team
Career Stats
Internationally
Represented Canada at:
- World Cup 2011
( Key to Career statistics: Sp or GP = Games Played, T or G = goals scored, V or A = achieved assists; Pts or Pts = scored points scorer, SM or PIM = received penalty minutes, / - = Plus / Minus balance sheet; PP = scored majority gates; SH = scored shorthanded goals, GW = achieved victory gates; Play-downs/Relegation 1 )