Jean-Gabriel Pageau

Jean-Gabriel Pageau
Date of birth	November 11, 1992
place of birth	Ottawa , Ontario , Canada
size	177 cm
Weight	78 kg
position	center
number	# 44
Shot hand	Right
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2011 , 4th round, 96th position Ottawa Senators
Career stations
2009–2012	Olympiques de Gatineau
2012	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi
2012-2015	Binghamton Senators
2013-2020	Ottawa Senators
since 2020	New York Islanders

Jean-Gabriel Pageau (born November 11, 1992 in Ottawa , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the New York Islanders in the National Hockey League since February 2020 . Previously, the Center spent eight years organizing the Ottawa Senators .

Career

Family and youth

Jean-Gabriel Pageau was born into a family shaped by ice hockey. His parents, who both worked in the public sector, saw themselves as die-hard fans, while his uncle Paul Pageau played a game as a goalkeeper for the Los Angeles Kings and was part of the Canadian national team at the 1980 Olympic Games . His two cousins ​​also play ice hockey, Nick Pageau already at AHL level for the Bakersfield Condors and Nathan Pageau in American university sports. Jean-Gabriel Pageau has spent much of his ice hockey career in Canada's National Capital Region , the metropolitan area of ​​the twin cities of Ottawa and Gatineau . In his youth he played for the Gatineau Intrepide and attended the École Polyvalente Nicolas-Gatineau , before 2009 at the Entry Draft of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (LHJMQ) to 125th position of the Gatineau Olympiques was selected . In addition to ice hockey, he also played other sports as a teenager, especially baseball , soccer and tennis .

Olympiques de Gatineau

In his rookie season with the Olympiques, Pageau had a solid 31 scorer points in 62 games. In the following season 2010/11 he succeeded in the breakthrough in the LHJMQ, so he scored 32 goals and 47 assists in 67 games of the regular season, which he maintained in the subsequent playoffs and he played a significant role in ensuring that his team Final reached the Coupe du Président . There you were subject to the Saint John Sea Dogs ; Pageau finished the playoffs with 29 points in third place on the scorer list. With his achievements more and more scouts became aware of him, so that he was selected in the subsequent NHL Entry Draft 2011 in 96th place by the Ottawa Senators . The Canadian attended its training camp in the summer of 2011, but, as expected, returned to the LHJMQ for another year.

He only spent half of this in Gatineau, as he was signed by the Saguenéens de Chicoutimi in January 2012 . In return, the Olympiques received goalkeeper Alexandre Michaud, two first-round voting rights and one second-round voting right for the LHJMQ's entry draft . The attacker finished the season with a total of 65 points from 46 games and reached the playoff semifinals with the Saguenéens in his last junior year.

NHL

In June 2012, Pageau signed a three-year entry contract with the Ottawa Senators . His first professional year he spent mainly with the farm team of the Senators in the American Hockey League (AHL), the Binghamton Senators , but he made his debut in April 2013 in the National Hockey League and convinced especially in the subsequent playoffs, in which he was in all ten games was used and contributed six scorer points. He also managed a hat trick in the 6-1 win against the Canadiens de Montréal , making him the second Senators player after Daniel Alfredsson to succeed in the playoffs. He was also honored after the season by his hometown Gatineau by signing himself on the city's official guest book, while Mayor Marc Bureau called him a "true ambassador for the city".

In the following two seasons Pageau changed regularly between NHL and AHL, but saw increasingly more ice age in the highest league in North America. The attacker has been part of the Ottawa Senators' squad since February 2015 and also signed a new two-year contract in June 2015, which was extended for a further three seasons after it had expired.

In February 2020, after eight years in Ottawa, Pageau was handed over to the New York Islanders on the trade deadline . In return, the Senators received conditional first-round voting rights for the NHL Entry Draft 2020 , second-round voting rights for the 2020 draft and a conditional third-round voting right for the NHL Entry Draft 2022 . The first-round voting rights are postponed by a year if it should land in the top three places via the draft lottery, while the third-round voting rights only change hands if the Islanders should win the Stanley Cup . In addition, immediately after the transfer, Pageau signed a new six-year contract in New York, which is expected to earn him an average annual salary of five million US dollars from the start of the 2020/21 season.

International

Pageau made his debut for the senior national team at the 2018 World Cup , where he finished fourth with the team.

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
2009/10	Olympiques de Gatineau	LHJMQ		62	16	15th	31	+4	20th		4th	1	0	1	-1	0
2010/11	Olympiques de Gatineau	LHJMQ		67	32	47	79	+23	22nd		24	13	16	29	+9	20th
2011/12	Olympiques de Gatineau	LHJMQ		23	23	16	39	± 0	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Saguenéens de Chicoutimi	LHJMQ		23	9	17th	26th	± 0	13		16	4th	10	14th	-2	6th
2012/13	Binghamton Senators	AHL		69	7th	22nd	29	+8	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Ottawa Senators	NHL		9	2	2	4th	+3	0		10	4th	2	6th	+4	8th
2013/14	Binghamton Senators	AHL		46	20th	24	44	+15	23		4th	1	0	1	-3	2
2013/14	Ottawa Senators	NHL		28	2	0	2	-5	12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Binghamton Senators	AHL		27	11	10	21st	+9	27		-	-	-	-	-	-
2014/15	Ottawa Senators	NHL		50	10	9	19th	+4	9		6th	0	0	0	± 0	0
2015/16	Ottawa Senators	NHL		82	19th	24	43	+17	26th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Ottawa Senators	NHL		82	12	21st	33	+13	24		19th	8th	2	10	+5	16
2017/18	Ottawa Senators	NHL		78	14th	15th	29	-14	36		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Ottawa Senators	NHL		39	4th	8th	12	-12	14th		-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				175	80	95	175	+27	67		44	18th	26th	44	+6	26th
AHL total				142	38	56	94	+32	83		4th	1	0	1	-3	2
NHL overall				368	63	79	142	+6	121		35	12	4th	16	+9	24

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2018	Canada	WM	4th Place		10	1	4th	5	+3	12
Men overall					10	1	4th	5	+3	12

( 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

• Player biography on the New York Islanders website
• Jean-Gabriel Pageau at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wayne Scanlan: Pageau of the Senators has always been a hometown hero. ottawacitizen.com, October 2, 2015, accessed December 21, 2015 . 
2. ^ Gormley à Shawi; Pageau avec les Sags. rds.ca, January 7, 2012, accessed December 21, 2015 (French). 
3. ↑ Bulletin: Senators sign forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau to entry-level contract. senators.nhl.com, June 6, 2012, accessed December 21, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Sens' Jean-Gabriel Pageau gets hat trick in fight-filled win over Habs. espn.go.com, May 6, 2013, accessed December 21, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Doug Hempstead: Gatineau honors Senators rookie Jean-Gabriel Pageau. ottawasun.com, June 19, 2013, accessed December 21, 2015 . 
6. ↑ News Release: Senators sign forward Jean-Gabriel Pageau to a two-year contract extension. senators.nhl.com, June 18, 2015, accessed December 21, 2015 .