Career
As a junior, he played for the Verdun Junior Canadiens and Saint-Hyacinthe Laser of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. He was drafted in the third round of the 1989 National Hockey League Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. A gritty left-winger, he was for many years considered to be one of their top prospects.
Sévigny failed to make much of an impact as a player in the National Hockey League, however.
He went long stretches without scoring and spent most of his six years in the Canadiens" organization playing for their minor-league affiliate, the Fredericton Canadiens. He appeared in only 75 regular-season games with Montreal.
He later signed as a free agent with the New York Rangers, where he appeared in three more National Hockey League games in 1997-1998. Sévigny continued to play professionally at various minor-league levels and in Europe until 2006.
Following a stint coaching Les Lions du Collège Street-Lawrence of the Quebec American Automobile Association Junior Hockey League, in 2007 he became the head coach of the Quebec Radio X of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, a low-level professional league based in Quebec.