Max Comtois

Max Comtois
Date of birth	January 8, 1999
place of birth	Longueuil , Quebec , Canada
size	188 cm
Weight	95 kg
position	Left wing
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2017 , 2nd round, 50th position Anaheim Ducks
Career stations
2015-2018	Tigres de Victoriaville
2018-2019	Voltigeurs de Drummondville
since 2018	Anaheim Ducks San Diego Gulls

Maxime "Max" Comtois (born January 8, 1999 in Longueuil , Québec ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League since March 2018 and in parallel for their farm team, the San Diego Gulls , in the American Hockey League is used.

Career

Max Comtois was born in Longueuil, a large city in the Montréal metropolitan area . There he was in his youth, among others, for the Lac St-Louis Grenadiers and the Châteauguay Grenadiers on before the Entry Draft of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (LHJMQ) of 2015 to the third position from the Victoriaville Tigres selected . For the Tigres, the winger was active in the LHJMQ, the highest-ranking junior league in his home province of Québec , from the start of the 2015/16 season . As a rookie , he scored 60 points in 62 games, so he was appointed to the LHJMQ All-Rookie Team . With 51 points, he did not quite succeed in confirming this performance the following year, before he was selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2017 in 50th position by the Anaheim Ducks .

For the time being, however, Comtois returned to Victoriaville and increased his personal statistics in the 2017/18 season to 85 scorer points from 54 games, so that he was elected to the second all-star team of the league. He then signed an entry-level contract with the Ducks in March 2018 . As part of the preparation for the 2018/19 season, the Canadian finally won a place in Anaheim's squad, so that he made his debut in the National Hockey League (NHL) in early October 2018 . After ten NHL appearances and seven scorer points, he was sent to Anaheim's farm team , the San Diego Gulls , in the American Hockey League (AHL) before returning to the LHJMQ after another four games there. From then on, the attacker ran for the Voltigeurs de Drummondville , who had already acquired his rights from the Tigres de Victoriaville in June 2018.

At the beginning of the 2019/20 season, Comtois switched permanently to the organization of the Ducks and has since been used in regular alternations between the NHL and AHL.

International

At the international level, Comtois gained its first experience as part of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 , with the team taking fourth place. At U18 level, he took part in the U18 World Championships in 2016 and 2017 and in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016 , in which the Canadian selection also missed the medal ranks. He then represented the Canadian U20 national team at the 2018 U20 World Cup , where he won the gold medal with the team. The following year he led the Canadian squad at the U20 World Cup 2019 as team captain on the ice, but only reached sixth place with the team after being eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Achievements and Awards

• 2016 LHJMQ All-Rookie Team
• 2017 Participation in the CHL Top Prospects Game
• 2018 LHJMQ Second All-Star Team

International

• 2015 All-Star Team of the World U-17 Hockey Challenge
• 2018 gold medal at the U20 World Cup

Career statistics

Status: end of the 2019/20 season

				Regular season							Playoffs
season	team	league		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015/16	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		62	26th	34	60	+4	68		5	1	5	6th	-4	4th
2016/17	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		64	22nd	29	51	–7	88		4th	1	0	1	-5	8th
2017/18	Tigres de Victoriaville	LHJMQ		54	44	41	85	+43	79		13	4th	8th	12	+1	16
2018/19	Voltigeurs de Drummondville	LHJMQ		25th	31	17th	48	+31	32		16	11	4th	15th	+5	24
2018/19	San Diego Gulls	AHL		4th	1	0	1	-2	2		12	5	4th	9	+4	4th
2018/19	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		10	2	5	7th	+3	7th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	San Diego Gulls	AHL		31	9	15th	24	+7	53		-	-	-	-	-	-
2019/20	Anaheim Ducks	NHL		29	5	6th	11	-4	24		-	-	-	-	-	-
LHJMQ total				205	123	121	244	+71	267		38	17th	17th	34	-3	52
AHL total				35	10	15th	25th	+5	55		12	5	4th	9	+4	4th
NHL overall				39	7th	11	18th	-1	31		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2015 U18 World Championship 2016 Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2016

U18 World Championship 2017 U20 World Cup 2018 U20 World Cup 2019

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2015	Canada Red	WHC	4th Place		6th	1	6th	7th		8th
2016	Canada	U18 World Cup	4th Place		7th	1	1	2	+1	12
2016	Canada	Hlinka Memorial	5th place		4th	4th	1	5	+3	8th
2017	Canada	U18 World Cup	5th place		5	2	0	2	-5	28
2018	Canada	U20 World Cup			7th	3	3	6th	+6	4th
2019	Canada	U20 World Cup	6th place		5	5	1	6th	+5	8th
Juniors overall					34	16	12	28		68

( 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

• Player biography on the Anaheim Ducks website
• Max Comtois at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ducks Sign Comtois to Entry-Level Contract. nhl.com, March 4, 2018, accessed October 23, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Confirmation transaction: Comtois et Lauzon passent aux Voltigeurs. voltigeurs.ca, June 1, 2018, accessed on December 27, 2018 (French).