Francis Wathier

Francis Wathier ( born December 7, 1984 in St. Isidore, Ontario ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey player standing since 2005 with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League under contract and plays Stars in the American Hockey League in parallel for their farm team Texas since 2009.

Career

Francis Wathier began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL in which he has ever been for two years from 2001 to 2005 active for the Olympiques de Hull and Gatineau Olympiques de. During this period, he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft in 2003 in the sixth round as the 185th overall player from the Dallas Stars. In the 2005/06 season the winger played for the first time for Dallas ' farm team in Iowa Stars of the American Hockey League, where he had to stop due to a shoulder injury for much of the season and could deny only eleven games. In the following season the links Sagittarius regulars was at the Iowa Stars and played in parallel in a total of 24 games for their cooperation partners Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL. With the steelhead he won the Kelly Cup.

Also during the 2007/ 08 season Wathier missed much of the AHL season due to a shoulder injury. For the following season, the Iowa Stars were renamed in Iowa Chops. Since 2009, the Canadian stands for Dallas ' new AHL farm team Texas Stars on the ice, with whom he to the Calder Cup the Hershey Bears defeated in the 2009/10 season until the playoff finals. He also sent for the Dallas Stars made ​​its debut in the National Hockey League when he was no points in five games. In the season 2010/11 he played a further three games for the Dallas Stars in the NHL, as he spent the entire rest of the season again when the Texas Stars in the AHL.

Awards and achievements

• 2007 Kelly Cup win with the Idaho Steelheads
• 2011 AHL All- Star Classic

Statistics

(End of season 2010/11)