Jean-Pierre Dumont

Infobox Ice Hockey Player


image_size =
team = Nashville Predators
former_teams = Buffalo Sabres
Chicago Blackhawks
league = NHL
position = Right Wing
shoots = Left
height_ft = 6
height_in = 1
weight_lb = 205
nickname =
nationality = CAN
birth_date = Birth date and age|1978|4|1|mf=y
birth_place = Montreal, QC, CAN
draft = 3rd overall
draft_year = 1996
draft_team = New York Islanders
career_start = 1998

Jean-Pierre "J. P." Dumont (born April 1, 1978 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian professional ice hockey forward and is an alternate captain for the Nashville Predators of the NHL.

Amateur career

Dumont played four seasons for Val-d'Or Foreurs in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Roberto Luongo, Francis Lessard, Steve Bégin and Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre were teammates at Val-d'Or who have also made it to the NHL.

Professional career

Dumont was drafted third overall the 1996 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders. In 1998, a contract dispute between Dumont and the team led to the Islanders to trade him to the Chicago Blackhawks along with a 5th round pick in exchange for Dmitri Nabokov. In March 2000, he was traded to the Buffalo Sabres. Dumont, Doug Gilmour and a draft pick went to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for Michal Grosek.

Dumont scored an overtime goal during the Sabres' run in the 2006 playoffs, in game 3 of the second round series versus the Ottawa Senators.

In August 2006, Dumont signed a two-year, $4.5-million contract with the Nashville Predators, after the Buffalo Sabres rejected Dumont's $2.9-million arbitration award.

In February 2008, Dumont signed a four-year, $16-million contract extension with the Nashville Predators.

His favorite player growing up was Joe Sakic. He wears the number 71 for the Nashville Predators, because both his children were born on the 17th. He always wore number 17 before he came to Nashville. It was due to the fact that former teammate Scott Hartnell had the number 17 when Jean-Pierre came to Nashville.

Career statistics

ee also

*List of Nashville Predators players
*List of NHL players

External links

*hockeydb|20200