Damien Fleury

{{Infobox ice hockey player

| name = Damien Fleury

| image = Damien Fleury - Vaasan Sport.JPG

| caption =

| image_size = 230px

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1986|2|1}}

| former_teams = Drakkars de Caen
Ours de Villard-de-Lans
Luleå HF
Timrå IK
Lausanne HC
Sport
Djurgårdens IF
Schwenninger Wild Wings
Kunlun Red Star
Lukko

| ntl_team = France

| birth_place = Caen, France

| height_ft = 5

| height_in = 11

| weight_lb = 185

| position = Forward

| shoots = Right

| draft = Undrafted

| career_start = 2005

| career_end =

}}

Damien Fleury (born 1 February 1986) is a French professional ice hockey forward who currently plays for Brûleurs de Loups in the Ligue Magnus as well as the French national team.{{cite web | url = http://www.hockeyfrance.com/ffhg/actualites/actualites-des-equipes-de-france/item/12403-bleus-de-l-etranger-fleury-debarque-en-khl | title = Bleus de l'étranger. Fleury débarque en KHL | publisher = Hockey France | date = 2016-06-06 | accessdate = 2015-06-06 | language = French | archive-date = 25 September 2018 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180925104338/http://www.hockeyfrance.com/ffhg/actualites/actualites-des-equipes-de-france/item/12403-bleus-de-l-etranger-fleury-debarque-en-khl | url-status = dead }}

Playing career

Fleury began his professional career in his native Ligue Magnus with his hometown team Drakkars de Caen. After tenures with Ours de Villard-de-Lans and Brûleurs de Loups of Grenoble, Fleury moved to Sweden in 2010 with VIK Västerås HK of the HockeyAllsvenskan. A year later, he moved to the top-tier Elitserien with spells at Luleå HF and Timrå IK before moving back down to HockeyAllsvenskan with Södertälje SK. He also had a brief spell in Switzerland's National League A with Lausanne HC.

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 Liiga club, Sport.{{cite web| url = http://www.difhockey.se/artikel/5139/ | title = Fleury a newcomer to DIF Hockey | publisher = Djurgårdens IF Hockey | date = 2015-01-15 | accessdate = 2015-01-15}} On 16 April 2015, Fleury signed a one-year contract to join German club, Schwenninger Wild Wings of the DEL for the 2015–16 season.{{cite web | url = http://www.wildwings.de/web/news/news-detailseite/?tx_news_pi1=detail | title = Damien Fleury changes to Schwenninger | publisher = Schwenninger Wild Wings | date = 2015-04-16 | accessdate = 2015-04-16 | language = German | archive-date = 24 May 2020 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200524191222/http://www.wildwings.de/web/news/news-detailseite/?tx_news_pi1=detail%2F | url-status = dead }} 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 Chinese team Kunlun Red Star.{{Cite web|url=http://en.khl.ru/news/2016/07/05/308746.html|title=Kunlun Red Star: First Press Conference|access-date=2016-07-08}}

Fleury participated at the 2013 and 2011 IIHF World Championship as a member of the France men's national ice hockey team.{{cite web| url = http://www.iihf.com/channels-11/iihf-world-championship-wc11/teams/fra.html | title = French team for 2011 IIHF Championship | publisher = International Ice Hockey Federation | date = 2011-05-04 | accessdate = 2011-05-04}}