Shoots Left Weight 91 kg Height 1.85 m | Name Jonathan Paiement Playing career Positions Defenseman | |
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Born March 7, 1985 (age 39)
Montreal, QC, CAN ( 1985-03-07 ) Austria team
Former teams HC Innsbruck
AHL
Rockford IceHogs
Hershey Bears
Albany River Rats
ECHL
Texas Wildcatters
Florida Everblades
DEL
Augsburger Panther NHL Draft 247th overall, 2004
New York Rangers | ||
11 19 08 matt clackson vs jonathan paiement
Jonathan Paiement (born March 7, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing in Austria with HC Innsbruck of the Austrian National League. Paiement was selected by the New York Rangers in the eighth round (247th overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.
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Amateur career
Paiement played major junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
Professional career
Paiement's first professional season was played in the ECHL with the 2006–07 Texas Wildcatters.
On February 19, 2009, Paiement and four other people were seriously injured when the bus carrying the Albany River Rats home from a game in Lowell, Massachusetts struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Paiement, Nicolas Blanchard, Joe Jensen, Casey Borer, and the River Rats' radio color commentator, John Hennessy, were all taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with "serious" injuries.