Laurent Meunier

Laurent Meunier ( born January 16, 1979 in Saint -Martin- d'Hères ) is a French ice hockey player standing since November 2010 at the Straubing Tigers in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga under contract. He currently plays on loan for the Genève -Servette HC in the National League A.

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Career

Laurent Meunier began his career as a hockey player with the Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble, for which he made ​​his debut in Ligue Magnus in the 1996/97 season, where he remained point and impunity in two games. He then moved to the league rivals Lyon Hockey Club, for which he was the next three years running. Then, the attacker went to North America, where he first two years studied at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and took part in parallel for their hockey team the game operation of the National Collegiate Athletic Association and then one season playing for the Florida Everblades of the East Coast Hockey League.

In summer 2003, Meunier returned to France, where he was obliged by his former club from Grenoble, with which he was first runner-up in 2004 and in 2005 reached the final of the Coupe de France. In Grenoble he could personally excel and received 2004 and 2005, the Trophée Albert Hassler as the best French player of the Ligue Magnus. After three years at the Brûleurs de Loups Frenchman moved to the Swiss National League A, where he was from 2006 to 2008 for the HC Servette Genève on the ice, where he was in season 2007/ 08 runners-up with Geneva. In summer 2008, Meunier was initially a contract with HC Dinamo Minsk of the newly formed Kontinental Hockey League, but was released shortly after the start of the season without the right shooter came to use one.

Therefore, he returned to Switzerland, playing for Fribourg- Gottéron. For the 2009/10 season he was awarded a contract with Timrå IK in the Swedish Elitserien. In the summer of 2010, he was first committed by his former club HC Servette Genève, but played after the transfer of Richard Park no longer for the team from Geneva. For this reason he left the club in late September and joined to the beginning of November to the HC La Chaux -de-Fonds from the National League B. In this he was able to convince two goals and nine assists in seven games. On 25 November 2010, the French international joined with immediate effect from HC La Chaux -de-Fonds to the Straubing Tigers in the German Hockey League. By the end of the 2010/11 season he scored for Bayern in 31 games 24 points scorer, nine gates, whereupon the Straubing Tigers prematurely extended his contract on 11 February 2011 by two years until 2013. On February 28, 2014, the HC Servette Genève announced the return of the French. In order to save salary costs lent him the DEL club from the team from Switzerland. Previously, Meunier had missed part of the season due to a jaw fracture.

Internationally

For France Meunier took at junior level at the U18 Junior B European Championships in 1996 and 1997 and the U20 Junior B World Championships in 1997, 1998 and 1999 in part. In the senior level, he stood in the squad of his country at the B World Championships in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2007, and at the A World Championships in 1999, 2000, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011. Moreover, he joined France in the qualifiers for the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Turin 2006 and 2010 in Vancouver. In 2002, he was able to push through with France and played at the Olympic Winter Games four games in which he gave an assist. Since the 2005 World Cup Meunier is captain of the French national team.

Awards and achievements

  • 2005 Ligue Magnus All-Star team
  • 2005 Finalist Coupe de France Grenoble Métropole Hockey
  • 2008 Swiss runners-up with the HC Servette Genève

Internationally

  • 2003 promotion to the top division at the World Championships Division I
  • 2005 Best plus / minus balance of the world championship of Division I, Group B (together with Julien Desrosiers )
  • 2007 promotion to the top division at the World Championships Division I
  • 2007 Best original donor in the world championship of Division I, Group A (together with Brad Smulders )

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 )

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