Patrick Côté was a winger who played six seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL). He later played the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey in his native Quebec.
Côté was born in LaSalle, Quebec on January 24, 1975. As a youth, he played in the 1989 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a team from Saint-Laurent, Quebec.
Selected 37th overall by the Dallas Stars in the 1995 NHL Entry Draft, Côté played only six NHL games his first two years in the NHL. Côté signed with the Nashville Predators as an enforcer for the 1998-99 season, where he scored three points (one goal and two assists) in 91 games over two seasons. He also picked up 313 penalty minutes during his two seasons in Nashville, which still remains as a club record for PIM. He played six games for the Edmonton Oilers in 2000-01 but spent the rest of that season with the Hamilton Bulldogs of the AHL. He played several seasons in the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey between 2001 and 2008.
In 2002, he was arrested in Malone, New York, after police found 30 pounds of marijuana in his car. He pleaded guilty to a reduced charge. On July 22, 2014, he received a 30-month prison sentence following his robbery of two banks in suburban Montreal. In 2016, he was shot by a correctional officer at Donnacona Correctional Facility in Quebec for trying to kill another inmate with his bare hands after again being found guilty in another bank robbery in Brassard, Quebec.
Sources-NHL.com, RT.com.
by 99titan
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I’d imagine maybe trying to put his life back together after being busted for marijuana trafficking and robbing banks. The latter of which he did time for.
30 POUNDS? Jeeeeeeeesus bro lmfao
Is he still in prison?