![]() That tough time in Sweden definitely helped me to become who I am now, and the reason why I’m on this team and the reason why I’m still in the NHL.”īellemare is in his second season with the Avs after signing as a free agent on July 1, 2019, following two seasons with the Vegas Golden Knights. It was more about who I was in the locker room and since then it’s been following me every (year). “So my first contract in Sweden wasn’t really signed because I was good at hockey. We want to see if you can keep doing that for another year.’ “It was because they literally told me, ‘Your attitude is contagious. “Not because I was the best hockey player,” he said. We were five (players) for one spot and eventually, we were fighting for the 13th (forward) spot.”īellemare stuck with the club, and eventually signed a contract. “I remember telling my mom after a few weeks, ‘I think I’ll be back home (soon),’ because it was a tryout contract. I came (from) a country that was really nice but hockey in France was not known internationally,” Bellemare said. Bellemare said the key time in his development was in the fall of 2006 when he left Rouen of the French league to play for Leksands IF in a bottom-tier Swedish league. It took being a solid teammate - a hard worker and a friend to everybody on his team. When I came home (Saturday) I had time to kind of think about all the different memories and kind of what it took to come into the NHL.” “Pretty surreal, to be honest,” Bellemare said of reaching 500 NHL games. ![]() He grew to love the sport and played 11 years of professional hockey in Europe - three in France and eight in Sweden - before joining the Philadelphia Flyers as an undrafted free agent at age 29 in 2014. (Canadian Paul MacLean was also born in France in 1958 when his father served with the Canadian Armed Forces).īellemare picked up hockey because his older sister and brother started playing, primarily in the street. Bellemare scored on a deflection off a Sergachev shot with 10.8 seconds left to make it a one-goal game again, but there wasn’t enough time for an equalizer.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menuīellemare is just the second French athlete to play that many regular-season NHL games, joining Antoine Roussel (554 games) of the Vancouver Canucks. The Golden Knights made it 5-3 with an empty-net goal by Roy with 1:09 to go. The Lightning cut it to 4-3 early in the second period when Perry snapped a shot from the bottom of the left circle off Hill’s glove and into the net. Marchessault increased the lead to 4-2 at the 17:46 mark with his 17th goal of the season. Theodore gave Vegas a 3-2 lead when his slap shot from the right circle squeaked under Vasilevskiy’s left arm for his fifth goal of the season. Marchessault then tied it, 2-2, at the 8:17 mark with a snap shot from the bottom of the left circle. Stamkos answered with his 25th goal of the season just 40 seconds later to put Tampa Bay back in front. Vegas tied it just seven seconds later - the quickest response to a goal in team history - when Howden redirected a Keegan Kolesar crossing pass into an open left side of the net for his third goal of the season. Namestnikov gave the Lightning a 1-0 lead at the 6:10 mark when he deflected a Perry shot into the top right corner of the net for his sixth goal of the season. Vegas took a 4-2 lead in a wild first period that featured three goals over a 47-second span. Victor Hedman and Mikhail Sergachev each added a pair of assists, and Andrei Vasilevskiy finished with 21 saves. Brett Howden and Nicolas Roy also scored, and Reilly Smith had two assists for the Pacific Division-leading Golden Knights, who moved into a tie with the Dallas Stars atop the Western Conference with 72 points.Īdin Hill finished with 20 saves to win his fourth straight start.Ĭorey Perry had a goal and an assist and Steven Stamkos, Vladislav Namestnikov and Pierre-Edouard Bellemare also scored goals for Tampa Bay. It was the third two-goal game of the season for Marchessault. Jonathan Marchessault scored two goals and Shea Theodore had a goal and two assists to lead the Vegas Golden Knights to a 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday night in Las Vegas.
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