He is one of the few hockey players from Saint-Pierre and Miquelon still in the running for the elite. Nicolas Arrossaména has been playing for Anglet since 2018, after having played for other clubs for 17 years.
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He joined the Anglet club in 2018. Now 33 years old, Nicolas Arrossaména is still pursuing his career in the Magnus league. Within one or two seasons, the Saint-Pierrais should retire from sport. In his Hormadi club, he found a balance between his private life and hockey.
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If he hopes for a new selection in the play-off with Anglet, he has also given himself another mission, that of transmitting his attacking experience to young recruits.
I played in big competitions and I think that today it is a logical continuation in my career.
Nicolas Arrossaména, striker in Anglet within the Synerglace Ligue Magnus
Nicolas Arrossaména will have played in Grenoble for the U18s and U22s (2006-2013). He then joined Gap (2013-2015) then Rouen (2015-2016). The Saint-Pierrrais will then swap his Dragons jersey for that of the Epinal Wildcats (2016-2017). Then the striker, who learned the basics of discipline within the minor hockey of the archipelago, will join Angers (2016-2018).
Since 2018, he has been evolving in Anglet. The hormadi (which means “ice” in Basque) which is currently 10th in the general classification of the Synerglace Ligue Magnus.
Nicolas Arrossaména also has selections for the France U18, U20 and senior teams to his credit.
He is the second Saint-Pierre and Miquelon player to still play in the Magnus League.
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Another Saint-Pierrais is still in competition within the Magnus League. This is the international Valentin Claireaux. His team, that of Rouen, is ranked in the top three and more precisely behind Grenoble and ahead of Angers. Valentin, his childhood friend, knows Nicolas well and his qualities on the ice.
He is very dangerous in the cage and he is able to score in any position and then I see that in him when I see him on the ice.
Valentin Claireaux, forward for the Rouen Dragons
Nicolas Arrossaména who tells “having accomplished all that I had to accomplish, that I pass on what I can pass on. Until when ? I don’t know but that’s when it will stop, it will stop. I would be really proud of my career“.
What is very interesting for us and which has a lot of values, is that with young people, he gives good advice when things go wrong. It’s how to behave after a bad game.
Pierrick Rézard, Anglet Hormadi Elite trainer
If the young hockey players of the archipelago are increasingly rare to follow in the footsteps of Valentin Claireaux, Nicolas Arrossaména in the Magnus League or as Gary Lévêque, Jonathan Janil, Andy Foliot and Mathieu Briand did before them, others joined Division 1 clubs or teams in Canada.
Eric Cintas, Massimo Bulgarelli and Gilles Mazaniello met Nicolas Arrossaména in the Basque Country.
