Francis Paré

Francis Paré
Date of birth	June 30, 1987
place of birth	LeMoyne , Quebec , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	84 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2004-2007	Cataractes de Shawinigan
2007-2008	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
2008-2013	Grand Rapids Griffins
2013	TPS Turku
2013-2014	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk
2014-2015	HK tractor Chelyabinsk
2015-2016	HC Slovan Bratislava
2016	TPS Turku
2016-2017	KHL Medveščak Zagreb
2017	Genève-Servette HC
2017-2019	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg
since 2019	HK Dinamo Minsk

Francis Paré (born June 30, 1987 in LeMoyne , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with HK Dinamo Minsk from the Continental Hockey League (KHL) since June 2019 and plays there in the position of the center .

Career

Francis Paré began his career in the 2003/04 season with the Cataractes de Shawinigan in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ) when he played five games for the team. In the following season he was part of the team's regular squad and played a good rookie season with 24 goals and 23 assists . In the following year he was able to improve significantly and came to 74 scorer points, making him one of the leading players in the Cataractes. The sporting success with his team was still missing because they failed prematurely in the playoffs . In the 2006/07 season , the Cataractes weakened in the regular season and finished third from last in the league. The season was also a step backwards for Paré. Although he came close to his performance of the previous year with 73 scorer points to one point, but he needed 13 more games. In the summer of 2007 he moved within the league to the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi , where he was to deny his last and best season with the juniors. Never met Paré more than 29 times in his first three seasons, so in the 2007/08 season he was the top scorer with 54 goals and was the only player in the league to reach the 50-goal mark. With a total of 102 points, he was also the second best scorer in the LHJMQ, was elected to the First All-Star Team and was awarded the Michel Brière Trophy as the most valuable player in the league.

After he had not been drafted by any franchise of the National Hockey League (NHL) in previous years , Paré signed a professional contract in the American Hockey League (AHL) with the Grand Rapids Griffins , the farm team of the Detroit Red Wings, in the summer of 2008 . There he had a good start to the 2008/09 season , although he was only used irregularly. In December 2008, he scored three goals within a week and prepared another four goals, whereupon he was named AHL Player of the Week. At the end of the 2012/13 season he won the Calder Cup with the Griffins .

In the summer of 2013 Paré decided to move to Europe and was initially committed by TPS Turku from Liiga in Finland . In December 2013 he left the club and moved to the Continental Hockey League (KHL) for HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk , with which he won the Gagarin Cup in 2014. In December 2014, the Canadian was given to HK Traktor Chelyabinsk in exchange for a right to vote for the KHL Junior Draft . There he played until October 2015 before he was exchanged for Filip Novák from HC Slovan Bratislava .

After a detour to TPS, he returned to the KHL in June 2016 when he was signed by the Croatian capital club KHL Medveščak Zagreb . In January 2017 he moved to the NLA club Genève-Servette HC in Switzerland. Between 2017 and 2019 he played 118 KHL games for Awtomobilist Yekaterinburg and then moved within the league to HK Dinamo Minsk in Belarus.

Achievements and Awards

2008 LHJMQ First All-Star Team 2008 Michel Brière Trophy 2008 CHL Second All-Star Team

2013 Calder Cup win with the Grand Rapids Griffins 2014 Gagarin Cup win with HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk 2016 Spengler Cup win with Team Canada

International

• 2004 bronze medal at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge

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
2003/04	Cataractes de Shawinigan	LHJMQ		5	2	0	2	2		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Cataractes de Shawinigan	LHJMQ		70	24	23	47	52		4th	0	3	3	4th
2005/06	Cataractes de Shawinigan	LHJMQ		55	26th	48	74	66		5	1	3	4th	4th
2006/07	Cataractes de Shawinigan	LHJMQ		68	29	44	73	37		4th	1	1	2	8th
2007/08	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	LHJMQ		69	54	48	102	54		6th	5	3	8th	4th
2008/09	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		63	24	24	48	14th		10	2	2	4th	2
2009/10	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		77	16	23	39	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		80	24	30th	54	49		-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		75	16	36	52	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Grand Rapids Griffins	AHL		68	22nd	22nd	44	37		24	3	9	12	12
2013/14	TPS Turku	Liiga		28	12	14th	26th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2013/14	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		20th	7th	2	9	0		21st	7th	2	9	6th
2014/15	HK Metallurg Magnitogorsk	KHL		35	4th	4th	8th	20th		-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL		23	10	5	15th	8th		5	1	1	2	4th
2015/16	HK tractor Chelyabinsk	KHL		14th	3	1	4th	2		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	HC Slovan Bratislava	KHL		16	3	2	5	0		-	-	-	-	-
2015/16	TPS Turku	Liiga		18th	10	4th	14th	18th		8th	2	2	4th	26th
2016/17	KHL Medveščak Zagreb	KHL		51	10	26th	36	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Genève-Servette HC	NLA		8th	5	6th	11	2		2	1	0	1	0
2017/18	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	KHL		49	11	18th	29	10		6th	2	1	3	0
2018/19	Awtomobilist Ekaterinburg	KHL		58	16	19th	35	8th		5	1	0	1	4th
LHJMQ total				267	135	163	298	211		19th	7th	10	17th	20th
AHL total				363	102	135	237	138		34	5	11	16	14th
Liiga overall				48	23	19th	42	22nd		8th	2	2	4th	26th
KHL total				266	64	77	141	66		37	11	4th	15th	14th

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2004

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2004	Canada Québec	U17-WHC			6th	2	7th	9	4th
Juniors overall					6th	2	7th	9	4th

( 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 )

Web links

• Francis Paré at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Do Slovana príde Tatarov veľký kamarát: Paré za Nováka, ktorého uvoľnili za lepšou ponukou. In: sportky.zoznam.sk. October 16, 2015, accessed November 16, 2015 (Slovak). 
2. ^ Unbelievable reinforcement - Calder and Gagarin cup winner joins the Bears. In: medvescak.com. Retrieved June 25, 2016 . 
3. ^ Francis Paré, un Aigle pour la fin de Saison. gshc.ch, accessed on January 23, 2017 (French).