Mike Danton
| Mike Danton | |||
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Danton in 2014
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| Born |
October 21, 1980 Brampton, ON, CAN |
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| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||
| Weight | 190 lb (86 kg; 13 st 8 lb) | ||
| Position | Centre | ||
| Shoots | Right | ||
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LNAH team Former teams |
Rivière-du-Loup 3L PHL STS Sanok MOL Liga HSC Csíkszereda Kazakh Beibarys Atyrau Slovak HC ’05 Banská Bystrica EBEL Orli Znojmo Swe-3 Kramfors-Alliansen IFK Ore NHL New Jersey Devils St. Louis Blues AHL Albany River Rats CIS St. Mary's Huskies |
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| National team |
 Poland
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| NHL Draft | 135th overall, 2000 New Jersey Devils |
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| Playing career | 2000–2004 2011––present |
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| Michael Sage Danton (né Michael Jefferson) |
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| Born |
October 21, 1980 Brampton, Ontario |
| Occupation | Professional hockey player (2000-2004), 2011- |
| Criminal charge | Conspiracy to commit murder |
| Criminal penalty |
90 months in prison
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| Criminal status | Granted parole on September 11, 2009 after serving 62 months, parole ended in 2011 |
| Conviction(s) | Pled guilty on July 16, 2004 |
Michael Sage Danton (born as Michael Stephen Jefferson on October 21, 1980) is a Polish-Canadian professional ice hockey player currently playing for Rivière-du-Loup 3L in the LNAH. Danton played for the New Jersey Devils and St. Louis Blues of the National Hockey League between 2000 and 2004, before being imprisoned for a conspiracy to commit murder. He was released on parole on September 11, 2009 after 63 months in jail, the original sentence being 90 months. Since being released, he has resumed his professional ice hockey career in various European leagues and in North America.
Danton began junior hockey in the 1996-97 season with the Quinte Hawks of the Metro Junior A Hockey League. He played in the Ontario Hockey League from 1997 to 2000 with the Sarnia Sting, the St. Michael's Majors, and the Barrie Colts. Playing for the Colts during the 2000 Memorial Cup in Halifax, Danton, then going by his birth name Jefferson, commented in the press that Brad Richards would not last five games in the Ontario Hockey League. and later refused to shake Richards' hand after he had been named tournament MVP.
Selected 135th overall by the New Jersey Devils in the 2000 NHL Entry Draft, Danton was a left winger for the St. Louis Blues, who traded a 3rd round draft pick to New Jersey to obtain him. He played 68 games for the Blues in the 2003–04 season. While with the Devils organization, he changed his last name from Jefferson to Danton after becoming estranged from his family. He admitted he adopted the surname "Danton" from the name of a 13-year-old boy at David Frost's hockey camp, because the name sounded "cool". He also feuded with Devils general manager Lou Lamoriello and was suspended by the team, prompting his eventual trade to St. Louis.
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