Damien Fleury (born 1 February 1986) is a French professional

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who currently plays for

Brûleurs de Loups The Brûleurs de Loups (French for ''Wolf Burners'') are a professional ice hockey team that play in Grenoble, France. History The club was founded in 1963 under the name Grenoble Hockey Club. Since 1992, the club has been known as the Brûleurs ...

in the

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as well as the French national team.

Playing career

Fleury began his professional career in his native

with his hometown team Drakkars de Caen. After tenures with Ours de Villard-de-Lans and

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, Fleury moved to Sweden in 2010 with

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of the

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. A year later, he moved to the top-tier Elitserien with spells at

Luleå HF Luleå Hockeyförening, also known as Luleå Hockey, is a professional ice hockey club from Luleå, Sweden. The club has been playing in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), the top tier of ice hockey in Sweden, since the 1984–85 season. They are ...

and

Timrå IK Timrå IK is a professional Swedish ice hockey team based in Timrå, north of Sundsvall. It competes in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL), which is the top-tier league in Sweden, since being promoted by winning 2021 SHL qualifiers. Previous sea ...

before moving back down to HockeyAllsvenskan with

Södertälje SK Södertälje Sportklubb, also known as Södertälje SK and often referred to as SSK, is a Swedish professional ice hockey club playing in HockeyAllsvenskan, the second highest level of pro hockey in Sweden. Södertälje were charter members of El ...

. He also had a brief spell in Switzerland's

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with

Lausanne HC Lausanne Hockey Club is an ice hockey team based in the city of Lausanne, Switzerland, which competes in the National League (NL). During the 2004–05 NHL lockout, the HC Lausanne signed National Hockey League players Martin St. Louis and Andy Ro ...

. In 2014, Fleury returned to Sweden's top-tier league, now called the Swedish Hockey League, with Djurgårgens IF after a mid-season transfer from Finnish

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club,

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. On 16 April 2015, Fleury signed a one-year contract to join German club,

Schwenninger Wild Wings The Schwenninger Wild Wings are a professional Germany, German ice hockey team from Villingen-Schwenningen in Baden-Wuerttemberg that was founded on 20 July 1904 and currently plays in the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL). The greatest success of the ...

of the

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for the 2015–16 season. He left the Wild Wings upon the conclusion of the 2015–16 season and was one of the first players to join the newest member of the

Kontinental Hockey League The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL; ) is an international professional ice hockey league founded in 2008. It comprises member clubs based in Russia (20), Belarus (1), Kazakhstan (1), and China (1) for a total of 23 clubs. It was considered in ...

, the Chinese team Kunlun Red Star. Fleury participated at the 2013 and

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as a member of the

France men's national ice hockey team The France men's national ice hockey team has participated in the IIHF European Championships, the IIHF World Hockey Championships and the Olympic Games. As of 2016, it is ranked 14th in the world in the IIHF World Rankings. The team is overseen ...

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* 1986 births Living people French ice hockey forwards Sportspeople from Caen Brûleurs de Loups players Djurgårdens IF (men's hockey) players Drakkars de Caen players HC Kunlun Red Star players Lausanne HC players Lukko players Luleå HF players Ours de Villard-de-Lans players Schwenninger Wild Wings players Södertälje SK players Timrå IK players Vaasan Sport players VIK Västerås HK players 21st-century French sportsmen {{France-icehockey-bio-stub