Laurent Meunier

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Laurent Meunier
Date of birth January 16, 1979
place of birth Saint-Martin-d'Hères , France
size 183 cm
Weight 83 kg
position center
number # 7
Shot hand Right
Career stations
1996-1997 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble
1997-2000 Lyon Hockey Club
2000-2002 University of Massachusetts Lowell
2002-2003 Florida Everblades
2003-2006 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble
2006-2008 Genève-Servette HC
2008-2009 Friborg-Gottéron
2009-2010 Timrå IK
2010 Genève-Servette HC
HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2010-2015 Straubing Tigers
2014 Genève-Servette HC (loan)
2015-2017 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds
2017-2019 Friborg-Gottéron

Laurent Meunier (born January 16, 1979 in Saint-Martin-d'Hères ) is a former French ice hockey player .

Career

Meunier in the Straubing Tigers jersey (2012).

Laurent Meunier began his career as a hockey player with the Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble , for which he made his Ligue Magnus debut in the 1996/97 season , with no point and penalty in two games. He then moved to their league rivals Lyon Hockey Club , for which he was active for the following three years. The attacker then went to North America, where he first studied for two years at the University of Massachusetts Lowell and at the same time took part in the National Collegiate Athletic Association's ice hockey team and then played one season for the Florida Everblades from the East Coast Hockey League .

Meunier in the jersey of the Genève-Servette HC

In the summer of 2003, Meunier returned to France, where he was signed by his ex-club from Grenoble, with whom he first became runner-up in 2004 and reached the final of the Coupe de France in 2005 . In Grenoble he was also able to distinguish himself personally and in 2004 and 2005 received the Albert Hassler trophy as the best French player in the Ligue Magnus. After three years with the Brûleurs de Loups, the Frenchman moved to the Swiss National League A , where he was on the ice for Genève-Servette HC from 2006 to 2008 , where he was runner-up with Genève in the 2007/08 season . In the summer of 2008 Meunier initially received a contract with HK Dinamo Minsk from the newly founded Continental Hockey League , which was dissolved shortly after the start of the season without the right-shooter being used.

So he returned to Switzerland and played for Friborg-Gottéron . For the 2009/10 season he received a contract with Timrå IK in the Swedish Elitserien . In the summer of 2010 he was initially obliged by his ex-club Genève-Servette HC, but after the transfer of Richard Park no longer played for the team from Geneva. For this reason, he left the club in late September and joined HC La Chaux-de-Fonds from the National League B until early November . In this he was able to convince with two goals and nine assists in seven games. On November 25, 2010, the French international moved with immediate effect from HC La Chaux-de-Fonds to the Straubing Tigers in the German Ice Hockey League . By the end of the 2010/11 season he had scored 24 scorer points in 31 games for Bayern, including nine goals, whereupon the Straubing Tigers prematurely extended his contract on February 11, 2011 by two years until 2013. On February 28, 2014, Genève-Servette HC announced the return of the Frenchman. In order to save salary costs, the DEL club loaned him to the team from Switzerland. Meunier had previously missed part of the season due to a broken jaw. In the 2014/15 season , the striker led the Tigers onto the ice as captain. After five years in Bavaria, his contract was no longer renewed, whereupon Meunier left the Tigers. He then returned to Switzerland and joined HC La Chaux-de-Fonds, for which he was already active in the 2011/12 season.

Meunier was under contract with Friborg-Gottéron from 2017 to 2019 . After the 2018/19 season, the Frenchman ended his active career.

International

For France , Meunier took part in the junior division of the U18 Junior B European Championships in 1996 and 1997 and the U20 Junior B World Championships in 1997 , 1998 and 1999 . In the senior sector, he was in his country's squad at the B World Championships in 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2005 , 2006 and 2007 and at the A World Championships in 1999 , 2000 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 and 2011 . He also competed for France in the qualifying tournaments for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Turin and 2010 in Vancouver . In 2002 he was able to assert himself with France and played four games at the Winter Olympics, in which he gave an assist. Meunier has been captain of the French national team since the 2005 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1996/97 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble FRA-1 2 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1997/98 Lyon Hockey Club FRA-1 40 11 13 24 48 - - - - -
1998/99 Lyon Hockey Club FRA-1 41 11 25th 36 42 - - - - -
1999/00 Lyon Hockey Club FRA-1 32 16 14th 30th 42 - - - - -
2000/01 University of Massachusetts Lowell NCAA 35 10 24 34 54 - - - - -
2001/02 University of Massachusetts Lowell NCAA 27 9 15th 24 34 - - - - -
2002/03 Florida Everblades ECHL 68 20th 31 51 106 1 1 1 2 0
2003/04 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble FRA-1 26th 16 11 27 36 - - - - -
2004/05 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble FRA-1 27 16 18th 34 79 12 1 4th 5 12
2005/06 Brûleurs de Loups de Grenoble FRA-1 26th 11 17th 28 36 7th 2 6th 8th 10
2006/07 Genève-Servette HC NLA 43 10 14th 24 36 5 1 1 2 0
2007/08 Genève-Servette HC NLA 20th 10 8th 18th 24 15th 6th 7th 13 16
2008/09 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 38 8th 10 18th 58 8th 1 2 3 4th
2009/10 Timrå IK SWE-1 47 4th 13 17th 46 5 1 1 2 4th
2010/11 Genève-Servette HC NLA 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
2010/11 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 7th 2 9 11 4th 0 0 0 0 0
2010/11 Straubing Tigers DEL 31 9 15th 24 54 - - - - -
2011/12 Straubing Tigers DEL 52 17th 24 41 54 8th 3 3 6th 12
2012/13 Straubing Tigers DEL 50 7th 21st 28 80 7th 0 2 2 6th
2013/14 Straubing Tigers DEL 33 5 25th 30th 46 - - - - -
2014/15 Straubing Tigers DEL 50 5 24 29 32 - - - - -
2015/16 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 34 7th 27 34 47 4th 1 3 4th 18th
2015/16 Lausanne HC NLA 1 0 0 1 2 - - - - -
2016/17 HC La Chaux-de-Fonds NLB 40 15th 27 42 27 10 3 7th 10 20th
2017/18 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 50 4th 7th 11 40 5 0 2 2 4th
2018/19 Friborg-Gottéron NLA 40 0 5 5 16 5 1 1 2 2
2018/19 HC Ajoie NLB 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
Ligue Magnus (FRA-1) overall 194 81 98 179 283 19th 3 10 13 22nd
NLA total 194 33 44 77 176 33 8th 12 20th 24
DEL total 216 43 109 152 246 15th 3 5 8th 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

Commons : Laurent Meunier  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ gshc.ch Laurent Meunier returns to Geneva (French)
  2. ↑ hockeyweb.de Straubing's Laurent Meunier is out for a long time
  3. ↑ Laurent Meunier: "Hope that things run better again for the Tigers in the future" ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) March 29, 2015.
  4. ^ Laurent Meunier from HCC for two seasons. Retrieved July 1, 2015 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Meunier, Laurent
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Martin-d'Hères , France