Rejean Stringer (pronounced Ray-zhawn, Stron-zhay) (born August 21, 1974) is a

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former professional

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forward who played most of his career in the

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Early life and education

Stringer was raised in Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan where he began playing hockey at a very young age in a backyard rink. Stringer left home in tenth grade to play for a team in a stronger league. He attended

Merrimack College Merrimack College is a private Augustinian university in North Andover, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1947 by the Order of St. Augustine with an initial goal to educate World War II veterans. Its campus has grown to a campus with nearly 40 b ...

from 1995 to 1999. He led the team in goals scored in the 1996–97 season and led the team in overall scoring the next two years. In the 1997–98 season he also led the nation in assists. That year he scored seven points in Merrimack's upset series victory over top seed

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in the

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playoffs. In 1999 he was named to the Hockey East All-Star team.

Professional career

After leaving Merrimack, Stringer played for the Kentucky Thoroughblades of the AHL and the New Orleans Brass of the

in the 1999–2000 season. The next year, he moved to the Fresno Falcons of the now-defunct WCHL. He then played for the Columbia Inferno of the ECHL from 2001 to 2003, making the ECHL all-star team in 2002. He then spent the 2003–04 season in playing for Salzburg in Austria. Stringer returned to ECHL for the 2004–05 season, playing for the

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before being sent to the

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due to the Wranglers'

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issues. The next year he briefly played for the

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of the

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before retiring from professional hockey. While in Cardiff, Stringer scored the final goal in the last game that the Devils played at

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. He currently works as an investment advisor for RBC Dominion Securities in his hometown of Gravelbourg.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stringer, Rejean 1974 births Canadian ice hockey forwards Ice hockey people from Saskatchewan Living people Merrimack Warriors men's ice hockey players People from Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan Kentucky Thoroughblades players New Orleans Brass players Fresno Falcons players Columbia Inferno players Las Vegas Wranglers players Peoria Rivermen (ECHL) players Cardiff Devils players Fransaskois people Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Wales AHCA Division I men's ice hockey All-Americans