Paiement's first professional season was played in the
ECHL with the
2006–07 Texas Wildcatters. On February 19, 2009, Paiement and four other people were seriously injured when the bus carrying the
Albany River Rats home from a game in
Lowell, Massachusetts struck a guard rail and rolled on its side on the
Massachusetts Turnpike. Paiement,
Nicolas Blanchard,
Joe Jensen,
Casey Borer, and the River Rats' radio color commentator, John Hennessy, were all taken to
Berkshire Medical Center in
Pittsfield with "serious" injuries. ==Awards and honours==