2023-07-08 14:11:20
After two seasons at Tampa Bay, French striker Pierre-Edouard Bellemare (38) signed up with the Seattle Kraken, still in the NHL.
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare does the splits! After two seasons spent in Tampa Bay in Florida, in the south-east of the United States, the French striker joined Seattle, in the State of Washington, in the north-west of the country. At 38, the Francilien does not want to put away the skates and he has signed up for the next NHL season and a contract of 775,000 dollars (707,000 euros) with the Krakenthe franchise created in 2018 as part of the development of the largest ice hockey league in the world.
Arrived in the NHL in 2014 following playing in Rouen and then in Sweden, Pierre-Edouard Bellemare wore the Philadelphia jersey for three seasons, before joining the young team of the Las Vegas Golden Knights in 2017, for two years. He then played in Denver, with the Colorado Avalanche, from 2019 to 2021, before signing in Tampa Bay.
Four French in the NHL!
Pierre-Edouard Bellemare will bring all his experience to the Kraken, which finished seventh in the Western Conference last season before losing in the Conference semi-finals in Game 7 once morest Dallas. He has 660 regular season games to his name (60 goals, 71 assists) and 85 play-off games (5 goals, 10 assists). Last season, he played 73 regular season games with the Lightning (4 goals, 9 assists) and six in the play-offs (one goal, one assist), where the Florida franchise was eliminated in the first round by Toronto. The Frenchman, however, never had the chance to lift the Stanley Cup, losing in the final with Tampa Bay in 2022 once morest Colorado and with Las Vegas in 2018 once morest Washington.
They will therefore be, unless the situation reverses, four French in the NHL next season, since the 23-year-old striker Alexandre Texier will return to Columbus following a loan to Zurich in Switzerland, and the 18-year-old goalkeeper Antoine Keller ( who also has Swiss nationality) was drafted by Washington last week, before being joined at the Capitals by striker Pierrick Dubé (22)
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