Jonathan Paiement

Jonathan Paiement
Born	(1985-03-07) March 7, 1985 Montreal, QC, CAN
Height	6 ft 1 in (185 cm)
Weight	201 lb (91 kg; 14 st 5 lb)
Position	Defence
Shoots	Left
Austria team Former teams	HC Innsbruck AHL Rockford IceHogs Hershey Bears Albany River Rats ECHL Texas Wildcatters Florida Everblades DEL Augsburger Panther
NHL Draft	247th overall, 2004 New York Rangers
Playing career	2006–present

Jonathan Paiement (born March 7, 1985) is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing in Austria with HC Innsbruck of the Austrian National League. Paiement was selected by the New York Rangers in the eighth round (247th overall) of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

Amateur career

Paiement played major junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Paiement's first professional season was played in the ECHL with the 2006–07 Texas Wildcatters.

On February 19, 2009, Paiement and four other people were seriously injured when the bus carrying the Albany River Rats home from a game in Lowell, Massachusetts struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Paiement, Nicolas Blanchard, Joe Jensen, Casey Borer, and the River Rats' radio color commentator, John Hennessy, were all taken to Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield with "serious" injuries.^[1]

Award	Year
QMJHL First team All-Star	2003–04

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