Marco Charpentier is a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 professional ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 forward

Forward (ice hockey)

In ice hockey, a forward is a player position on the ice whose primary responsibility is to score goals. Generally, the forwards try to stay in three different lanes, also known as thirds, of the ice going from goal to goal. It is not mandatory however, to stay in a lane. Staying in a lane aids in...

, who plays for La Chaux-de-Fonds

HC La Chaux-de-Fonds

HC La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss professional ice hockey team.-External links:*...

 in the Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 National League B.

Career

On 28 August 2009, Charpentier joined the Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen

GET-ligaen is the premier Norwegian ice hockey league, organised by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation. The league was known as 1. divisjon until 1990, when it was reorganized and named Eliteserien . That name was held until 2004 when cable TV company UPC became main sponsor...

 team Lørenskog on a 2 week try-out. He made a good impression and was offered a contract. Despite ending the 2009–10-season

2009–10 GET-ligaen season

The 2009–10 GET-ligaen was the seventieth season of Norway's premier ice hockey league, Eliteserien . The regular season began play on 12 September 2009 and concluded on 2 March 2010, with Vålerenga claiming their twenty-seventh League Championship after defeating Lillehammer 2–1 on 26 February...

 as the third best scoring leader, behind Tomi Pöllänen

Tomi Pöllänen

Tomi Pöllänen is a Finnish professional ice hockey forward, who plays for Lillehammer in the Norwegian GET-ligaen.-Early career:...

 and Jonas Solberg Andersen

Jonas Solberg Andersen

Jonas Solberg Andersen is a Norwegian professional ice hockey player.-External links:*...

, he was not offered a new contract. General Manager, Kjell Erik Oseberg, stated that his defensive qualities were not the best (64 points and only a +9 rating).

On 17 April 2010, he was hired by the Swiss

Switzerland

Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition....

 National League B team La Chaux-de-Fonds

HC La Chaux-de-Fonds

HC La Chaux-de-Fonds is a Swiss professional ice hockey team.-External links:*...

, with an option.

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