Jean-Pierre Dumont
Jean -Pierre " J. P. " Dumont ( born April 1, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player ( Right Wing ), who was recently at the SC Bern of the National League A under contract.
Career
As a junior he played for the Val- d'Or Foreurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Dumont was pulled at the NHL Entry Draft in 1996 by the New York Islanders in the third position in the. In 1998 he was for Dmitri Nabokov and a draft pick to the Chicago Blackhawks transferred, in which he has his first NHL game contested. In the two years in which he was active for Blach Hawks he did not make the breakthrough and played at this time also with the Portland Pirates in the American Hockey League and the Chicago Wolves and the Cleveland Lumberjacks of the International Hockey League.
In March 2000 he was discharged together with Doug Gilmour to the Buffalo Sabres, in return got the Blackhawks Michal Grošek. The rest of the season he played in the AHL farm team of Saberes, with the Rochester Americans. With good performances he recommended for the Sabres and he played for the first time in the 2000 /01 exclusively in the NHL. With his 51 points, he was the second best scorer in the team and was in the course of time to guide players and, for a short time team captain. During the lockout season Dumont was active for the SC Bern of the National League A from February 2005, for which he scored nine points in 13 games.
In August 2006, he signed a two -year contract (2.25 million U.S. dollars per year) at the Nashville Predators after the Buffalo Sabres had rejected its request for a salary increase ( 2.9 million U.S. dollars per year). In his first season for the Predators, he was with 66 points after Paul Kariya 's second- best scorer on the team. After Paul Kariya did not renew his contract in Nashville in July 2007, Dumont took over the post of assistant captain Paul Kariya. In the 2007 /08 season he was with 29 goals and 72 points in each of the top scorers on the team. In February 2008, Dumont has signed a four -year contract (4 million U.S. dollars per year ) for the Predators.
In June 2011 the Nashville Predators paid his one year current contract prematurely, causing the Canadians became available as a free agent. About four months later, Dumont received a contract with SC Bern of the National League A to the end of season 2011/12.
Awards and achievements
Internationally
- 2004 Gold Medal at the World Championships
Career Stats
( 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 )