Max Pacioretty

United States Max Pacioretty


Date of birth	November 20, 1988
place of birth	New Canaan , Connecticut , USA
size	185 cm
Weight	92 kg

position	Left wing
number	# 67
Shot hand	Left

Draft

NHL Entry Draft	2007 , 1st lap, 22nd position Canadiens de Montréal

Career stations

2006-2007	Sioux City Musketeers
2007-2008	University of Michigan
2008-2018	Canadiens de Montréal
since 2018	Vegas Golden Knights

Max Pacioretty (born November 20, 1988 in New Canaan , Connecticut ) is an American ice hockey player . The left winger has been under contract with the Vegas Golden Knights of the National Hockey League since September 2018 . Before that, he spent ten years with the Canadiens de Montréal , which he also led for three years as captain .

Career

Pacioretty (right) in the University of Michigan jersey

Max Pacioretty began his career as a hockey player with the Sioux City Musketeers, for which he was active in the United States Hockey League in the 2006/07 season . He was then selected in the NHL Entry Draft 2007 in the first round as a total of 22nd player by the Canadiens de Montréal . However, the attacker initially spent a season with the University of Michigan team before making his National Hockey League debut for the Canadiens in the 2008-09 season . For this he scored a total of eleven points scorer in 34 games, including three goals. In addition, the American was on the ice in 37 games for the Canadiens farm team from the American Hockey League , the Hamilton Bulldogs . There he contributed 29 scorer points, including six goals. Pacioretty was seriously injured on March 8, 2011 when Zdeno Chára checked a so-called turnbuckle. He broke the fourth cervical vertebra. Pacioretty made a successful comeback at the beginning of the 2011/12 season .

For the duration of the NHL lockout in the 2012/13 season, the striker was signed by the Swiss club HC Ambrì-Piotta in September 2012 . On October 16, 2012 Pacioretty left the club due to an elbow injury.

In the 2014/15 season, he and Nikita Kutscherow from the Tampa Bay Lightning won the NHL Plus / Minus Award, which was not officially awarded . In the off-season that followed , his teammates voted him the third US team captain in franchise history.

After a total of ten years in the organization of the Canadiens, Pacioretty was handed over to the Vegas Golden Knights in September 2018 after rumors of change that had existed for some time . In return, Tomáš Tatar , Nick Suzuki and a second-round vote for the 2019 NHL Entry Draft moved to Montréal. The American then signed a new four-year contract in Vegas, which should bring him an average annual salary of seven million US dollars from the start of the 2019/20 season.

International

For the USA Pacioretty took part in the U20 World Junior Championship in 2008 , with which he finished fourth. The striker remained without a scorer point in six games. He was also part of the US selection at the 2014 Winter Olympics and the 2016 World Cup of Hockey .

Achievements and Awards

2007 USHL Rookie of the Year
2007 USHL All-Rookie Team
2007 participation in the USHL All-Star Game
2008 CCHA Championship with the University of Michigan
2008 CCHA Rookie of the Year
2008 CCHA All-Rookie Team

2011 participation in the AHL All-Star Classic
2012 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
2015 NHL Plus / Minus Award (together with Nikita Kutscherow , not officially awarded)
2020 participation in the NHL All-Star Game

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
2006/07	Sioux City Musketeers	USHL	60	21st	42	63	119	7th	4th	6th	10	10
2007/08	University of Michigan	NCAA	36	15th	23	38	59
2008/09	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	37	6th	23	29	43	-	-	-	-	-
2008/09	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	34	3	8th	11	27	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	52	3	11	14th	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2009/10	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	18th	2	9	11	10	5	1	0	1	2
2010/11	Hamilton Bulldogs	AHL	27	17th	15th	32	20th	-	-	-	-	-
2010/11	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	37	14th	10	24	39	-	-	-	-	-
2011/12	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	79	33	32	65	56	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	HC Ambrì-Piotta	NLA	5	1	0	1	4th	-	-	-	-	-
2012/13	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	44	15th	24	39	28	4th	0	0	0	4th
2013/14	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	73	39	21st	60	35	17th	5	6th	11	8th
2014/15	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	80	37	30th	67	32	11	5	2	7th	16
2015/16	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	82	30th	34	64	34	-	-	-	-	-
2016/17	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	81	35	32	67	38	6th	0	1	1	7th
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL	64	17th	20th	37	30th	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Vegas Golden Knights	NHL	66	22nd	18th	40	36	7th	5	6th	11	4th
NCAA overall			36	15th	23	38	59
AHL total			82	25th	47	72	73	5	1	0	1	2
NHL overall			692	248	240	488	375	45	15th	15th	30th	39

International

Represented the USA at:

year	team	event	result	Sp	T	V	Pt	SM
2008	United States	U20 World Cup	4th Place	6th	0	0	0	8th
2012	United States	WM	7th place	8th	2	10	12	4th
2014	United States	Olympia	4th Place	5	0	1	1	4th
2016	United States	World cup	7th place	3	0	0	0	2
Juniors overall				6th	0	0	0	8th
Men overall				16	2	11	13	10

( 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 )