Career
He was featured in the first season of Making the Cut, a hockey-based reality show which aired in 2004. Tessier played major junior in the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) where he served as a team captain for the Ottawa 67"son Undrafted by a National Hockey League (National Hockey League) club, Tessier earned an invite to the Montreal Canadiens training camp in 2000.
He spent his professional rookie season in the East Coast Hockey League (ECHL) with the Louisiana IceGators, recording 35 points in 60 games.
The following season, he earned another National Hockey League training camp invite with the Ottawa Senators. Tessier spent the 2001-2002 season, however, overseas in the Holland Super League with the Amstel Tijgers where he finished second in league scoring with 43 points in 33 games, as well as first in playoff scoring.
Tessier subsequently bounced between the North American minor professional leagues in the American Hockey League (AHL) and ECHL as well as the European leagues, such as the German 2nd Bundesliga (DEL2), and Bundesliga (DEL), the Swiss Nationalliga B (SUI-B), and the British Elite Ice Hockey League (EIHL). In 2004, he competed in the Canadian Broadcasting Company"s inaugural season of Making the Cut, a hockey-based reality show in which contestants compete for a spot on one of the six Canadian National Hockey League teams.
On April 6, 2009 Tessier retired from his professional ice hockey career after the Nottingham Panthers" Elite League playoff defeat against Sheffield Steelers.
In 2002, Tessier branched out by opening his own hockey instruction school for youths during the summer.
