Jonathan Paiement


Jonathan Paiement 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 of the 2004 NHL Entry Draft.

Amateur career

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

Professional career

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.

Awards and honours