Francis Wathier

Francis Wathier
Date of birth	7th December 1984
place of birth	St. Isidore , Ontario , Canada
size	191 cm
Weight	90 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 48
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2003 , 6th round, 185th position Dallas Stars
Career stations
2001-2003	Olympiques de Hull
2003-2005	Olympiques de Gatineau
2005-2008	Iowa stars
2008-2009	Iowa chops
since 2009	Texas Stars

Francis Wathier (* 7. December 1984 in St. Isidore , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who since 2005 with the Dallas Stars in the National Hockey League has a contract and since 2009 in parallel to their farm team Texas Stars in the American Hockey League play .

Career

Francis Wathier began his career as a hockey player in the Canadian junior league QMJHL , in which he was active for two years for the Olympiques de Hull and Olympiques de Gatineau from 2001 to 2005 . During this period he was selected in the 2003 NHL Entry Draft in the sixth round as a total of 185 players by the Dallas Stars . In the 2005/06 season , the winger played for the first time for Dallas' farm team Iowa Stars in the American Hockey League , where he had to sit out for much of the season due to a shoulder injury and could only play eleven games. In the following season , the left-shooter was a regular with the Iowa Stars and played in parallel in a total of 24 games for their partner Idaho Steelheads in the ECHL . With the Steelheads he won the Kelly Cup .

Also during the 2007/08 season , Wathier missed much of the AHL season due to a shoulder injury. For the following season , the Iowa Stars were renamed Iowa Chops. Since 2009 the Canadian has been on the ice for Dallas' new AHL farm team Texas Stars , with whom he lost to the Hershey Bears in the 2009/10 playoff final for the Calder Cup . He also made his debut in the National Hockey League for the Dallas Stars when he remained pointless in five games. In the 2010/11 season he played another three games for the Dallas Stars in the NHL, while he spent the rest of the season again with the Texas Stars in the AHL.

Achievements and Awards

• 2003 Coupe du Président win with the Olympiques de Hull
• 2004 Coupe du Président win with the Olympiques de Gatineau
• 2007 Kelly Cup win with the Idaho Steelheads
• 2011 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic

statistics

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
NHL Regular Season	2	8th	0	0	0	5
NHL playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
AHL regular season	6th	308	60	54	114	427
AHL playoffs	3	42	2	10	12	47

(Status: end of the 2010/11 season)

Web links

• Francis Wathier at hockeydb.com (English)
• Francis Wathier at legendsofhockey.net (English)
• Francis Wathier at eliteprospects.com (English)