As a youth, Abid played in the 1994
Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a
minor ice hockey team from
Longueuil, Quebec. Typically playing as a left winger, Ramzi Abid was selected by the
Colorado Avalanche as the first choice in the second round (28th overall) of the
1998 NHL entry draft and was redrafted in the
2000 NHL entry draft, 85th overall, by the
Phoenix Coyotes, who on March 11, 2003, traded him to the
Pittsburgh Penguins with
Dan Focht and
Guillaume Lefebvre for
Jan Hrdina and
François Leroux . In March 2003, he successfully underwent surgery to repair a torn
ACL and missed the remainder of the 2002–03 season. He played for the
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins, an affiliate team of the Pittsburgh Penguins, in the
American Hockey League during the
2004–05 NHL lockout. Abid spent the 2005–06 season with the
Atlanta Thrashers. On July 21, 2006, Abid signed a one-year contract with the
Nashville Predators. Abid had an impressive pre-season, in which he scored a hat-trick in an 8-1 win over the Blue Jackets on September 21, 2006. Abid was then sent to affiliate, the
Milwaukee Admirals, prior to the start of the
2006-07 season. Abid played 13 games with the Predators as an injury replacement during the season. On April 18, 2007, Ramzi was called up to the Predators and made his play-off debut against the
San Jose Sharks in the Western Conference Quarterfinals. Abid was a member of
Team Canada in the
2007 Spengler Cup. In 2007, Abid signed with
SC Bern to play through the 2009-10 season. He played two seasons for SC Bern before his contract was dissolved in April 2009. In August 2009, he signed with
Traktor Chelyabinsk of the
Kontinental Hockey League for the
2009–10 season. After 33 games with Traktor he left the KHL on January 31, 2010. On February 1, 2010, Abid agreed to a contract with Rögle BK. On June 11, 2010, Abid again a free agent, signed a one-year contract with EC Red Bull Salzburg that also included a one-year option, a team playing in the
EBEL. After a second season with Red Bull, Abid was again on the move within Europe, signing a one-year contract with
JYP of the Finnish
SM-liiga on July 23, 2012. In his first season with the Finnish club, Abid contributed with a team leading 22 goals and 42 points in 56 games and was signed to a one-year extension at the midpoint of the season. Abid struggled in his return campaign in
2013–14 with JYP, posting 3 goals in 21 games before he was mutually released from his contract and signed in the German DEL with
Grizzly Adams Wolfsburg on December 18, 2013. ==Career statistics==