Philippe Seydoux (born 23 January 1985) is a

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professional

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currently playing for

SC Langenthal Schlittschuh Club Langenthal known as SC Langenthal is a Swiss professional ice hockey team. They have played since the 2001–02 season in the Swiss League, the second tier of the main professional ice hockey league in Switzerland, behind the Na ...

in the Swiss League (SL) on loan from fellow SL club,

EHC Kloten EHC Kloten is an ice hockey team based in the city of Kloten in Switzerland. The team plays in the National League (NL). It has one of the best youth systems in Swiss ice hockey as its youth teams have won 19 championships during the last 50 year ...

Playing career

Born in Bern, Switzerland, Seydoux played junior with

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from 2000 until 2003. His play attracted the attention of the

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, who drafted him in the third round (100th overall) in the

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. He then moved to

where he played with the Kloten junior team as well as part-time with the professional team. He became a full-time member of the professional team in 2004. In 2006, he moved to HC Fribourg-Gottéron and in 2009 he moved to

EHC Biel EHC Biel-Bienne is a professional ice hockey club based in the bilingual city of Biel/Bienne, Switzerland and plays in the National League (NL). Since the city of Biel is completely bilingual, alongside the German name EHC Biel (Abbr: EHCB) the tea ...

. On 29 July 2019, with one-year remaining on his contract in his second stint with EHC Kloten, Seydoux was loaned to fellow league competitors and former club, SC Langenthal, for the duration of the 2019–20 season.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

International

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Seydoux, Philippe 1985 births EHC Biel players HC Fribourg-Gottéron players HPK players EHC Kloten players Lausanne HC players Ottawa Senators draft picks Ice hockey people from Bern Living people Ontario Reign (ECHL) players SC Bern players SCL Tigers players SC Langenthal players Swiss ice hockey defencemen