Patrice Cormier

Patrice Cormier
Date of birth	June 14, 1990
place of birth	Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	91 kg
position	center
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2008 , 2nd round, 54th position New Jersey Devils
Career stations
2004-2006	Moncton Gagnon Beavers
2006-2010	L'Océanic de Rimouski
2010	Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda
2010	Chicago Wolves
2010-2011	Atlanta Thrashers
2011-2016	Winnipeg Jets
2011-2015	St. John's IceCaps
2015-2018	Manitoba mosses
2018-2019	Barys Astana
since 2019	Ak Bars Kazan

Patrice Cormier (born June 14, 1990 in Moncton , New Brunswick ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with Ak Bars Kazan in the Continental Hockey League since May 2019 . His brother Kevin is also a professional ice hockey player.

Career

Patrice Cormier began his career as an ice hockey player with the Moncton Gagnon Beavers in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League , for which he went on the ice from 2004 to 2006. Cormier then moved to L'Océanic de Rimouski , for which he was active from 2006 to 2010 in the Canadian junior league Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . During this period he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2008 in the second round as a total of 54th player by the New Jersey Devils , but remained in Rimouski. On January 8, 2010, the center moved to the Huskies de Rouyn-Noranda within the LHJMQ . In his third game for the Huskies, he intentionally injured his opponent Mikael Tam on January 18, 2010 with an elbow check, for which he was suspended for the rest of the regular season and the entire playoffs from the LHJMQ's game operations.

On February 4, 2010, Cormier was transferred to the Atlanta Thrashers in exchange for Ilya Kowaltschuk and Anssi Salmela, along with Johnny Oduya and Niclas Bergfors , as well as a first-round vote for the 2010 NHL Entry Draft . For their farm team , the Chicago Wolves , the left-handed shooter made his professional ice hockey debut in the Calder Cup playoffs of the 2009/10 season . In nine games he stayed without points and received eight penalty minutes. He also began the 2010/11 season with the Chicago Wolves and was appointed to the NHL roster of the Atlanta Thrashers for the first time during the season, for which he made his debut in the National Hockey League on December 28, 2010 and in his sixth match against the Toronto Maple Leafs scored its first goal.

Even after the Thrashers had moved to Winnipeg , Cormier was mainly used in the AHL for St. John's IceCaps and only sporadically in the NHL for the Jets. From 2016 he was firmly under contract with the Manitoba Moose in the AHL and was team captain there .

For the 2018/19 season he moved to Kazakhstan to Barys Astana in the Continental Hockey League .

International

For Canada , Cormier took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2009 and 2010 . At the U20 World Cup in 2010 he won the silver medal with his team, a year earlier he was U20 junior world champion with Canada. He himself contributed to these successes with three goals and five assists in twelve games. He was also the team captain of Canada at the 2010 U20 World Cup.

Achievements and Awards

• 2008 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2009 Memorial Cup All-Star Team

International

• 2009 gold medal at the U20 Junior World Championship
• 2010 silver medal at the U20 Junior World Championship

statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

	Seasons	Games	Gates	Assists	Points	Penalty minutes
AHL: Regular season	8th	413	98	102	200	630
AHL: playoffs	4th	54	6th	6th	12	80
NHL: Regular season	6th	49	1	4th	5	18th
NHL: playoffs	-	-	-	-	-	-
KHL: Regular season	1	56	18th	22nd	40	101
KHL: playoffs	1	11	1	3	4th	35

Web links

• Player biography on the Winnipeg Jets website
• Patrice Cormier at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tsn.ca, CORMIER SUSPENDED FOR BALANCE OF QMJHL SEASON AND PLAYOFFS
2. ↑ tsn.ca, THRASHERS SHIP KOVALCHUK TO DEVILS FOR PLAYERS, 1ST ROUNDER
3. ↑ chicagowolves.com, Wolves Bolster Roster With Five Additions Heading Into Playoffs ( Memento of the original from April 16, 2010 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. 
4. ↑ Jason Bell: Moose to vamoose: Capt. Cormier ready for takeoff, signs deal to play in Kazakhstan. In: winnipegfreepress.com. July 4, 2018, accessed August 28, 2018 .