Aaron Gagnon

Aaron Gagnon
Date of birth	April 24, 1986
place of birth	Quesnel , British Columbia , Canada
size	180 cm
Weight	86 kg
position	center
number	# 11
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2004 , 8th lap, 240th position Phoenix Coyotes
Career stations
2002-2007	Seattle Thunderbirds
2007-2008	Iowa stars
2008-2009	Grand Rapids Griffins
2009-2011	Texas Stars
2011-2013	St. John's IceCaps
2013-2017	Lukko
2017	SC Bern
since 2017	SCL Tigers

Aaron Gagnon (born April 24, 1986 in Quesnel , British Columbia ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the SCL Tigers in the National League A since April 2017 .

Career

Aaron Gagnon began his career as a hockey player with the Seattle Thunderbirds , for which he was active from 2001 to 2007 in the Canadian Junior Western Hockey League . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2004 in the eighth round as a total of 240th player by the Phoenix Coyotes , for which he never played. Instead, he received a contract with the Dallas Stars on February 2, 2007 as a free agent .

After he was used in his first two years in the Texans franchise exclusively for their farm teams , the Iowa Stars and Grand Rapids Griffins from the American Hockey League , and the Idaho Steelheads from the ECHL , he gave up on October 16, 2009 at home the Boston Bruins made his debut in the National Hockey League for Dallas. For the remainder of the 2009-10 season , the Canadian was added to the roster of Dallas' new AHL farm team, Texas Stars .

On July 4, 2011, Gagnon signed a two-year contract with the Winnipeg Jets , but was mainly used for their AHL farm team St. John's IceCaps . He was then signed for two seasons by HV71 from Svenska Hockeyligan in August 2013 , but already moved to Lukko in the Liiga in October of the same year .

He left Lukko at the end of January 2017 and moved to SC Bern in the National League A (NLA), where he received a contract until the end of the 2016/17 season. With SC Bern he won the Swiss championship at the end of the season and after this success moved within the league to the SCL Tigers .

International

For Canada , Gagnon took part in the U18 World Junior Championship in 2004 , where he finished fourth with his team.

Achievements and Awards

• 2005 WHL West First All-Star Team
• 2007 WHL West First All-Star Team
• 2007 Brad Hornung Trophy
• 2017 Swiss champions with SC Bern

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL: Regular season	6th	328	74	98	172	134
AHL: playoffs	4th	55	16	12	28	30th
NHL: Regular season	4th	38	3	2	5	2
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-

Web links

• Aaron Gagnon at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Aaron Gagnon at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aaron Gagnon until the end of the season at SCB . In: SCB Eishockey AG . ( scb.ch [accessed on January 25, 2017]).