 As a youth, he played in the 1990 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Wexford, Toronto.Nemirovsky was drafted 84th overall by the National Hockey League's Florida Panthers in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.Picked from the Ottawa 67's of the Ontario Hockey League, he went on to play parts of four seasons with Florida, playing 91 games for the Panthers and scoring 16 goals and 22 assists for 38 points, he also picked up 42 penalty minutes.