Justin Fontaine

Justin Fontaine
Date of birth	November 6, 1987
place of birth	Bonnyville , Alberta , Canada
size	178 cm
Weight	80 kg
position	Right wing
number	# 14
Shot hand	Right
Career stations
2004-2007	Bonnyville Pontiacs
2007-2011	University of Minnesota Duluth
2011-2013	Houston Eros
2013-2016	Minnesota Wild
2016-2017	Hartford Wolf Pack
2017	Bakersfield Condors
2017-2018	HK Dinamo Minsk
2018-2019	Kunlun Red Star
since 2020	Cologne Sharks

Justin Carl Fontaine (born November 6, 1987 in Bonnyville , Alberta ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Kölner Haien from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL) since January 2020 and plays there in the position of right winger .

Career

youth

Justin Fontaine began playing ice hockey in his hometown with the Bonnyville Pontiacs . The team plays in the Alberta Junior Hockey League (AJHL) and thus at the second highest level, below the Canadian Hockey League . In the 2005/06 season Fontaine scored 81 points from 50 games and was named Rookie of the Year. He also took part in the World Junior A Challenge , where he won the gold medal with Team Canada West . Although he achieved a similar statistic in the following season, the second-rate AJHL was not enough to make Fontaine appear interesting for an NHL entry draft . However, he was elected in 2014 in the best 50 players in the history of the AJHL and in the best 10 AJHL players of the period 2004-2013.

As a result, the Canadian enrolled at the University of Minnesota Duluth in the summer of 2007 and from then on played for the Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA). After a below average year as a freshman , Fontaine had his breakthrough at UMD in the 2008/09 season. With the most assists in the team (33), he played a key role in ensuring that the Bulldogs won the WCHA playoffs and thus the Broadmoor Trophy . It was also the first of three consecutive years in which the attacker was elected to both the All-Academic Team and the Second All-Star Team of the WCHA. The greatest sporting success he achieved with the team in the 2010/11 season, when they won the championship ( Frozen Four ) of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and thus became the best university team in the United States.

NHL

As one of the top performers of the Bulldogs, Fontaine drew the attention of franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL) after this success , so that he signed an entry contract with the Minnesota Wild in April 2011 . As expected, the Wild gave it to the Houston Eros , their farm team from the American Hockey League (AHL). In his first professional season, Fontaine came out there again as the team's best assists (39). After he was even the best scorer of the Eros in the following season 2012/13, the Minnesota Wild extended his expiring contract by one year in July 2013.

In addition, the Wild called him at the beginning of the 2013/14 season in their NHL line-up, where Fontaine subsequently earned a regular place and came to a total of 66 missions. In addition, Fontaine managed a hat trick against the Phoenix Coyotes in January of his debut season . As an established regular player, his contract was extended for two more years in the summer of 2014. Subsequently, he received no new contract in Minnesota and joined the New York Rangers as a free agent in October 2016 . There the attacker spent almost half a season exclusively with the Hartford Wolf Pack in the AHL before the Rangers handed him over to the Edmonton Oilers for the trade deadline on March 1, 2017 in exchange for Taylor Beck . In the Oilers' franchise, he only ran for their Bakersfield Condors farm team before his contract expired at the end of the season.

KHL and DEL

Fontaine moved in July 2017 as a free agent to the Belarusian club HK Dinamo Minsk in the Continental Hockey League . A year later, in July 2018, he signed a one-year contract with league competitor Kunlun Red Star . After this ended, the Canadian remained without a contract until January 2020, before he found a new employer in the Kölner Haien from the German Ice Hockey League (DEL).

Achievements and Awards

2006 AJHL Rookie of the Year 2009 Broadmoor Trophy win with the University of Minnesota Duluth 2009 WCHA All-Academic Team 2009 WCHA Second All-Star Team 2010 WCHA All-Academic Team

2010 WCHA Second All-Star Team 2011 WCHA All-Academic Team 2011 WCHA Second All-Star Team 2011 NCAA Division I Championship with the University of Minnesota Duluth

International

• 2006 gold medal at the World Junior A Challenge

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2018/19 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2004/05	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		12	1	4th	5		12		-	-	-	-	-	-
2005/06	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		50	26th	55	81		36		9	1	6th	7th		4th
2006/07	Bonnyville Pontiacs	AJHL		52	30th	41	71		60		5	3	5	8th		10
2007/08	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		35	4th	8th	12	-12	8th
2008/09	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		43	15th	33	48	+2	18th
2009/10	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		38	21st	25th	46	+5	20th
2010/11	University of Minnesota Duluth	NCAA		42	22nd	26th	58	+23	42
2011/12	Houston Eros	AHL		73	16	39	55	-3	32		4th	0	0	0	-3	0
2012/13	Houston Eros	AHL		64	23	33	56	+10	18th		5	3	5	8th	-1	4th
2013/14	Minnesota Wild	NHL		66	13	8th	21st	+6	26th		9	1	1	2	± 0	2
2014/15	Minnesota Wild	NHL		71	9	22nd	31	+13	12		6th	1	1	2	± 0	2
2015/16	Minnesota Wild	NHL		60	5	11	16	+3	20th		4th	0	0	0	-1	0
2016/17	Hartford Wolf Pack	AHL		50	9	21st	30th	-3	20th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Bakersfield Condors	AHL		15th	2	9	11	+6	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2017/18	HK Dinamo Minsk	KHL		52	13	17th	30th	-8th	33		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Kunlun Red Star	KHL		54	8th	14th	22nd	-14	16		-	-	-	-	-	-
AJHL total				114	57	100	157		108		14th	4th	11	15th		14th
NCAA overall				159	62	102	164	+18	90
AHL total				202	50	102	152	+8	76		9	3	5	8th	-4	4th
NHL overall				197	27	41	68	+22	58		19th	2	2	4th	-1	4th
KHL total				106	21st	31	52	-22	49		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World Junior A Challenge 2006

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2006	Canada West	U19-WJAC			4th	0	2	2	6th
Juniors overall					4th	0	2	2	6th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; ¹  play-downs / relegation )

Web links

• Justin Fontaine in the database of the National Hockey League (English)
• Justin Fontaine at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Andrew Mendler: Fontaine finding his way in the NHL. (No longer available online.) Bonnyvillenouvelle.ca, March 4, 2014, archived from the original on March 7, 2016 ; accessed on March 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ AJHL Announces Top 50 Players of All-Time. ajhl.ca, January 18, 2014, accessed March 7, 2015 (English). 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Justin Fontaine at hockeysfuture.com (accessed on March 7, 2015)
4. ↑ Glen Andresen: Wild Signs UMD Winger Justin Fontaine. wild.nhl.com, April 19, 2011, accessed March 7, 2015 . 
5. ↑ mdoylewild: Wild Re-signs Two RFAs. wildlighthouse.wordpress.com, July 18, 2013, accessed March 7, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Wild Re-Signs Fontaine. wild.nhl.com, July 29, 2014, accessed March 7, 2015 . 
7. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Kölner Haie sign former NHL striker Fontaine. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .