Cédric Paquette

Cédric Paquette
Date of birth	August 13, 1993
place of birth	Gaspé , Québec , Canada
size	185 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	center
number	# 13
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2012 , 4th round, 101st position Tampa Bay Lightning
Career stations
2011–2012	Montréal Juniors
2012-2013	Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand
2013-2014	Syracuse crunch
since 2014	Tampa Bay Lightning

Cédric Paquette (born August 13, 1993 in Gaspé , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Tampa Bay Lightning in the National Hockey League since May 2013 .

Career

youth

Cédric Paquette was born in Gaspé and attended the private Collège Notre-Dame in Rivière-du-Loup, about 600 kilometers away . For his ice hockey team, the Collège Notre-Dame Albatros , he played from 2008 to 2011 at the highest level (Midget AAA) in the age group under 18. In 2010 he was won by the Montréal Juniors in the Entry Draft of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ ) was selected in 89th position and has therefore played in one of the highest junior leagues in Canada since spring 2011 .

At the beginning of the 2011/12 season, the Juniors moved to Boisbriand and henceforth operated as Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand . For this, the center reached 48 scorer points in 63 games in its LHJMQ debut season and was selected at the end of the season by the Tampa Bay Lightning in 101st position in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft . In his second year in Boisbriand he led the Armada as assistant captain and increased his personal statistics significantly to 83 points scorer in 63 games.

Tampa Bay Lightning

Because of these achievements, Paquette signed an entry-level contract with the Lightning in May 2013 . This gave him directly to the Syracuse Crunch , the farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL), where he came to three playoffs at the end of the season. With the 2013/14 season, the center established itself in the crunch and scored 44 points from 70 AHL games. As a result, the Lightning appointed him in April 2014 for the first time in the NHL squad, after which he made his debut in the National Hockey League . He also took part in the four playoff games against the Canadiens de Montréal , all of which were lost .

With the 2014/15 season Paquette established himself in the NHL squad, where he managed a hat trick against the Detroit Red Wings in January 2015 .

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2010/11	Montréal Juniors	LHJMQ		4th	0	0	0	-2	2		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand	LHJMQ		63	31	17th	48	+1	88		11	7th	10	17th	+6	22nd
2012/13	Armada de Blainville-Boisbriand	LHJMQ		63	27	56	83	+29	103		15th	7th	5	12	+3	33
2012/13	Syracuse crunch	AHL		-	-	-	-	-	-		3	0	0	0	± 0	0
2013/14	Syracuse crunch	AHL		70	20th	24	44	± 0	153		-	-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		2	0	1	1	+1	0		4th	0	2	2	-2	16
2014/15	Syracuse crunch	AHL		5	4th	3	7th	+8	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		64	12	7th	19th	+4	51		24	3	0	3	–6	28
2015/16	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		56	6th	5	11	-2	51		17th	0	1	1	± 0	24
2016/17	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		58	4th	6th	19th	–6	80		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		56	5	4th	9	-5	41		17th	1	1	2	-1	37
2018/19	Tampa Bay Lightning	NHL		80	13	4th	17th	+7	80		4th	1	0	1	-1	0
LHJMQ total				130	58	73	131	+28	193		26th	14th	15th	29	+9	55
AHL total				75	24	27	51	+8	160		3	0	0	0	± 0	0
NHL overall				316	40	27	67	-1	303		66	5	4th	9	-10	105

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

family

His cousin Christopher Paquette is also an ice hockey player and was selected by the Tampa Bay Lightning in the 2016 NHL Entry Draft in 148th position.

Web links

• Player biography on the Tampa Bay Lightning website
• Cédric Paquette at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lightning.nhl.com: "Lightning Agree To Terms With 2012 Draftee Cedric Paquette" (English, May 3, 2013, accessed February 1, 2015)
2. ↑ foxnews.com: "Paquette's hat trick powers Lightning past Red Wings" (English, January 30, 2015, accessed February 1, 2015)