François Fortier

François Fortier
Date of birth	June 13, 1979
place of birth	Beauport , Quebec , Canada
size	181 cm
Weight	96 kg
position	Left wing
number	# 15
Shot hand	Left
Career stations
1996-1999	Sherbrooke Faucons
1999-2000	Hartford Wolf Pack
2000-2001	Québec Citadelles
2001-2002	Mississippi Sea Wolves
2002-2003	Schwenninger Wild Wings
2003-2005	Augsburg panther
2005-2010	Hamburg Freezers
2010-2014	Vienna Capitals
2014	EC VSV
2014-2015	Vålerenga
since 2015	Marquis de Jonquière

François Fortier (born June 13, 1979 in Beauport , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Marquis de Jonquière in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey since June 2015 .

Career

François Fortier has been playing ice hockey since he was five and joined the Faucons de Sherbrooke in 1996 in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec , where he scored 99 goals and 117 assists in three years and a total of 193 games. In his last season in the LHJMQ, the winger also played a game for the AHL team Hartford Wolf Pack for which he was on the ice in 63 games in the next season and scored 15 points . In the 2000/01 season Fortier was on the ice for seven games for the ECHL team Charlotte Checkers and also completed 28 appearances at Wolf Pack as well as 28 games for league rivals Quebec Citadelles .

Fortier in the jersey of the Vienna Capitals , Playoffs 2014

In the 2001/02 season, the striker ran in 71 main round games and 10 play-off games for the Mississippi Sea Wolves and scored 36 goals and 55 assists before moving to the German Ice Hockey League for the next season . Here, the left-handed shooter scored 20 goals and 19 assists in 52 games for the Schwenninger Wild Wings in the 2002/03 season and then signed a contract with the Augsburg Panthers , for which he ran for a total of two years.

In the 2005/06 season , the attacker together with Benoît Gratton and Marc Beaucage formed the first row of league rivals Hamburg Freezers , the so-called French Connection . In his first season, Fortier was the best scorer alongside Jeff Ulmer and also top scorer on the Elbe. After the Freezers played a disastrous 2009/10 season, which they ended in penultimate place in the table, his contract in Hamburg was not extended. For the 2010/11 season he then moved to the Vienna Capitals in the Austrian ice hockey league , where he played in an attacking formation with Gratton, as in Hamburg.

Fortier's transfer to the EC VSV was confirmed on April 17, 2014, but after poor performance he was released from his contract in November of the same year. A few days later, the Canadian went to the Norwegian GET-ligaen to play for Vålerenga . In the summer of 2015 he returned to North America and signed a contract with Marquis de Jonquière from the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey .

Career statistics

				Regular season						Play-offs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
1996/97	Sherbrooke Faucons	LHJMQ		62	21st	16	37	72		3	0	2	2	2
1997/98	Sherbrooke Faucons	LHJMQ		70	36	52	88	42		-	-	-	-	-
1998/99	Sherbrooke Castors	LHJMQ		48	36	40	76	8th		13	6th	9	15th	4th
1998/99	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		1	0	0	0	0		-	-	-	-	-
1999/00	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		63	6th	9	15th	14th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Charlotte Checkers	ECHL		7th	1	5	6th	15th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		28	2	6th	8th	8th		-	-	-	-	-
2000/01	Québec Citadelles	AHL		28	5	5	10	17th		-	-	-	-	-
2001/02	Mississippi Sea Wolves	ECHL		71	36	55	91	55		10	4th	9	13	13
2002/03	Schwenninger Wild Wings	DEL		52	20th	19th	39	30th		-	-	-	-	-
2003/04	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	18th	27	45	16		-	-	-	-	-
2004/05	Augsburg panther	DEL		52	15th	23	38	26th		5	1	2	3	2
2005/06	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		44	24	20th	44	24		6th	0	4th	4th	4th
2006/07	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	28	31	59	26th		7th	5	1	6th	8th
2007/08	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		53	24	21st	45	61		8th	5	2	7th	4th
2008/09	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		52	22nd	31	53	30th		9	2	5	7th	2
2009/10	Hamburg Freezers	DEL		56	23	30th	53	18th		-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		51	48	36	84	61		10	3	9	12	2
2011/12	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		40	15th	21st	36	12		7th	3	3	6th	4th
2012/13	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		51	19th	26th	45	19th		15th	7th	6th	13	5
2013/14	Vienna Capitals	EBEL		53	28	33	61	19th		5	1	2	3	5
LHJMQ total				180	93	108	201	122		16	6th	11	17th	6th
ECHL total				78	37	60	97	70		10	4th	9	13	13
AHL total				120	13	20th	33	39		-	-	-	-	-
DEL total				305	129	141	270	183		26th	11	9	20th	18th

( 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

• François Fortier at hockeydb.com (English)
• François Fortier at eurohockey.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ecvsv.at The EC VSV separates from Fortier and Ringrose ( memento of the original from April 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ vif-hockey.no Forsterker med Fortier ( Memento of the original from March 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ lapresse.ca Fortier s'amènera à Jonquière