Jason Nicholas Doig (born January 29, 1977) is a

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former professional

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player who played in the

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with the

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and the

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Early life

Doig was born in

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. His parents, Michael and Paula Doig, immigrated to Canada from

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prior to his birth for educational purposes, obtaining their degrees from

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and

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, respectively. Doig grew up in

Dollard-des-Ormeaux Dollard-des-Ormeaux (; commonly referred to as D.D.O. or simply Dollard) is a city and a predominantly English-speaking suburb of Montreal in southwestern Quebec, Canada. It is the most populous suburb on the Island of Montreal. The town was na ...

, a suburb of Montreal, where he attended St. Charles Elementary School,

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high school and

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. Aside from hockey, he played soccer at a very high level with the West Island Lakers soccer club and was invited to play for Team Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1991

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with the North Shore

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team.

Playing career

The Montreal, Quebec native impressed in his youth with the North Shore hockey team in the QAHA then with Lac St-Louis Lions of the Quebec Midget AAA Hockey League before making his

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debut with the

St-Jean Lynx The Saint-Jean Lynx were a junior ice hockey team which played from 1989 to 1995 in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They played at the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur. In 1982, they moved from Sherbrooke where they were formerly the Sherbrooke C ...

in 1993-94. That same year, Doig lead Team Quebec to a gold medal in dazzling fashion at World Under-17 Hockey Challenge where he scored the tying and game-winning goal in the final game against Team USA. The following year he represented Team Canada at the World Under-18 Tournament in

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- taking home the gold medal. He was chosen 34th overall by the

in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft after scoring 55 points and registering 259 penalty minutes with the

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's and played in the

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all-star game. In 1996 he was returned to the QMJHL where he led the Granby Predateurs to the

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- winning the coveted

Guy Lafleur Trophy The Guy Lafleur Trophy () is awarded annually to the Most Valuable Player in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) playoffs. It is named for Hockey Hall of Fame inductee and QMJHL alumnus Guy Lafleur Guy Damien Lafleur (September ...

as the playoff MVP and then on to a

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Championship where he was named as a first team all-star. That same year he was named team Captain for the West Team at QMJHL all-star game. The next year Jason was a member of

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when it won the gold medal at the

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. Doig played for the

as an 18-year-old in 1995-96 and remained with the franchise when it relocated to

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in 1996-97 and became the

. He then joined the

in a trade prior to the deadline in March, 1999. The 6'3" blueliner played for the Blueshirts and saw action with the

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Hartford Wolf Pack The Hartford Wolf Pack are a professional ice hockey team based in Hartford, Connecticut. A member of the American Hockey League (AHL), they play their home games at the PeoplesBank Arena. The team was established in 1926 as the Providence Reds. ...

where he won a

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in 2000. The hulking blueliner played two seasons in the

organization before he was dealt to the

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where he played only one season with the team's AHL affiliate, the

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. Following his brief stint with the

organization, Doig was acquired by the

in 2002-03 where he became a solid blueliner with the club while spending the early part of the season with the team's AHL affiliate, the

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. Following a season away from hockey due to the NHL lock out, Doig was signed as a free agent by the

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and sent to compete with the club's AHL affiliate, the

Manitoba Moose The Manitoba Moose are a professional ice hockey team based in Winnipeg. They are the American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate of the Winnipeg Jets of the National Hockey League (NHL). The team plays its home games at Canada Life Centre. The fran ...

. In the 2006–2007 season he played for

Traktor Chelyabinsk Traktor Chelyabinsk, also known as Traktor, or HC Traktor Chelyabinsk, () is a professional ice hockey club based in Chelyabinsk, Russia. It is a member of the Kharlamov Division in the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). From 1967 to 2009, the te ...

Russian Super League The Russian Superleague (, ''Russian Championship Superleague''), commonly abbreviated as RSL, was the highest division of the main professional ice hockey league in Russia. It was considered the second-best league in the world, after the Nation ...

and finished the season in the Swiss

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with the Langnau

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. In that same year, Jason represented

once again at the

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where the team won the Silver Medal. In the 2007–2008 season, he played in

with

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. He then signed a contract for the remainder of the season with the Norwegian top division team

Stavanger Oilers Stavanger Ishockeyklubb, commonly referred to as the Stavanger Oilers, is a Norwegian professional ice hockey team based in Stavanger, Norway. They currently play in the Fjordkraftligaen, which is the top division in Norwegian ice hockey. As o ...

. After Stavanger was eliminated from the Norwegian playoffs, Doig announced that he would retire.

Personal life

Since retiring in 2007, Doig became a principal with Los Angeles-based investment bank Park Lane, where he specialized on the hockey side of the business. While at Park Lane, Doig founded TreeVestors, an investment firm specializing in the development, origination and financing of social and environmentally sustainable carbon forestry projects. Currently, Doig is a Regional Sales Coordinator with Aflac, a Fortune 200 company specialized in supplemental employee benefits. Doig lives in Los Angeles with his three children.

Championships and medals

*1993 Under-17 World Hockey Challenge, Team Quebec - Gold Medal *1994 Under-18 Copa Mexico, Team Canada - Gold Medal *1996 QMJHL President's Cup, Granby Predators *1996 Memorial Cup Championship, Granby Predators *1997 Under-20 World Junior Championship, Team Canada - Gold Medal *2000 Calder Cup, Hartford Wolfpack *2007 Spengler Cup, Team Canada - Silver Medal

Honors and awards

*Under-17 MVP (1993) *QMJHL All-Rookie Team (1994) *Guy Lafleur Trophy (1996) *Memorial Cup All-Star Team (1996) *QMJHL All-Star Team (1997)

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Doig, Jason 1977 births Living people Anglophone Quebec people Black Canadian ice hockey players Black Canadian sportsmen Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Norway Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in Russia Canadian sportspeople of Jamaican descent Granby Prédateurs players Hartford Wolf Pack players Ice hockey people from Montreal Manitoba Moose players New York Rangers players People from Dollard-des-Ormeaux Phoenix Coyotes players Canadian expatriate ice hockey players in the United States Saint-Jean Lynx players Stavanger Oilers players Traktor Chelyabinsk players Washington Capitals players Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) draft picks Winnipeg Jets (1979–1996) players 20th-century Canadian sportsmen Canadian ice hockey defencemen