6th year left wing Jonathan Lessard(91) went away to play hockey in France last season for Les Ducs d’Angers scoring a tidy 14 goals and 14 assists in 40 Ligue Magnus games.
As decent as those numbers were, it was in the playoffs and the Continental Cup, where he popped his output onto a different level grabbing 4 goals and 5 assists in 9 postseason contests and another 4 points in the tourney.
The aggressive 6’1″ 190 lbs. forward averaged a pair of point-per-game campaigns in his 2nd & 3rd years of the QMJHL with Acadie-Bathurst Titan.
He has only been that successful as a pro in his first full season with a team, Allen Americans in their last run of the Central Hockey League‘s existence.
Just wouldn’t you know it, he won the President’s Cup and went on to pocket 9 goals and 5 assists in 17 playoff match-ups.
Well, he circles back to sign with Allen Americans for 2017/2018.
A veteran of 142 ECHL games, the 26-year old, who started his career with a pair of LNAH teams will likely do well and raise that hideous -44 rating to a much better number.