Rey Comeau

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CanadaCanada  Rey Comeau Ice hockey player
Date of birth October 25, 1948
place of birth Montreal , Quebec , Canada
size 173 cm
Weight 77 kg
position center
Shot hand Left
Career stations
1965-1966 West Island Flyers
1966-1968 Maple Leafs de Verdun
1968-1971 Cleveland Barons
1971 Voyageurs de Montréal
1971-1972 Nova Scotia Voyageurs
1972-1988 Atlanta Flames
1978-1980 Colorado Rockies
1979-1981 Fort Worth Texans

Reynald Xavier "Rey" Comeau (born October 25, 1948 in Montreal , Québec ) is a former Canadian ice hockey player who played 573 games for the Canadiens de Montréal , Atlanta Flames and Colorado Rockies in the course of his active career between 1966 and 1981 National Hockey League (NHL) has contested on the position of the center . However, Comeau celebrated his greatest career success in the service of the Nova Scotia Voyageurs by winning the Calder Cup of the American Hockey League (AHL) in 1972.

Career

Comeau spent his junior years between 1966 and 1968 with the Maple Leafs de Verdun in the previous leagues of the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ), with which he twice participated in the prestigious Memorial Cup . Previously, he had played a year for league rivals West Island Flyers , in whose service he had made it to the league's Second All-Star Team. Although the striker scored 72 times in 40 missions with the Flyers in his year and increased this yield with one completed game to 79 scorer points in the 1967/68 season, he was not included in the 1968 NHL Amateur Draft due to his slight stature.

Nevertheless, the striker continued to pursue a professional career and therefore signed a contract with the Cleveland Barons from the American Hockey League (AHL) before the 1968/69 season . There the rookie reached 40 scorer points at the end of his first professional season; in the second year he increased his points account to 65. In the summer of 1970 his transfer rights were transferred to the North Stars under a cooperation agreement between the Cleveland Barons and the Minnesota North Stars from the National Hockey League (NHL). However, he continued to run for the Barons until January 1971, before being transferred to the Canadiens de Montréal in exchange for Gord Labossiere . The Franco-Canadians continued to use Comeau in the AHL. By the end of the 1970/71 season he came to work for their farm team Voyageurs de Montréal . The offensive player came to the Vancouver Canucks via the intra-league draft in June 1971 , but the Habs bought him back before the start of the season. With the beginning of the game year 1971/72 he was then in the squad of the new cooperation partner Nova Scotia Voyageurs , with whom he won the Calder Cup at the end of the season. With 20 scorer points in 15 playoff games - and thus next to Germain Gagnon the best scorer of his team - Comeau had a significant share in winning the championship trophy. He also made his NHL debut for the Canadiens during the season, who put him up four times.

With no prospect of a permanent place in the NHL roster, the Canadiens de Montréal sold the attacker in June 1972 to the newly admitted Atlanta Flames . There Comeau managed to get a regular place straight away and he completed 77 matches over the course of the season. With 42 points, including 21 goals, he also set a career record. In the years that followed, the Canadian became a fixture in the squad, missing a total of just twelve games in his six years of franchise membership . In June 1978, the 29-year-old moved as a free agent to the Colorado Rockies , where his offensive production in the 1978/79 season with 18 points from 70 games declined drastically. Before the 1979/80 season he was therefore posted to the Fort Worth Texans farm team in the Central Hockey League (CHL). It was only in March 1980 that he returned to the Rockies' NHL squad by the end of the season and recorded his last appearances in the league. After he had spent the whole game year 1980/81 in the CHL with the Texans, Comeau ended his career as an active player in the summer of 1981.

In the 2012/13 season he worked briefly as a scout for the Voltigeurs de Drummondville in the LHJMQ.

Achievements and Awards

Career statistics

Regular season Playoffs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
1965/66 West Island Flyers LHJMM 37 40 32 72 37 - - - - -
1966/67 Maple Leafs de Verdun LHJMM Statistics not available
1967 Maple Leafs de Verdun Memorial Cup 4th 3 1 4th 2
1967/68 Maple Leafs de Verdun LHJQ 36 29 50 79 - - - - -
1968 Maple Leafs de Verdun Memorial Cup 18th 8th 14th 22nd 40
1968/69 Houston Apollos CHL 1 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1968/69 Cleveland Barons AHL 71 17th 23 40 26th 4th 1 0 1 0
1969/70 Cleveland Barons AHL 71 27 38 65 26th - - - - -
1970/71 Cleveland Barons AHL 41 17th 25th 42 30th - - - - -
1970/71 Voyageurs de Montréal AHL 29 9 14th 23 34 3 1 2 3 4th
1971/72 Nova Scotia Voyageurs AHL 68 23 41 64 63 15th 6th 14th 20th 10
1971/72 Canadiens de Montréal NHL 4th 0 0 0 0 - - - - -
1972/73 Atlanta Flames NHL 77 21st 21st 42 19th - - - - -
1973/74 Atlanta Flames NHL 78 11 23 34 16 4th 2 1 3 6th
1974/75 Atlanta Flames NHL 75 14th 20th 34 40 - - - - -
1975/76 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 17th 22nd 39 42 - - - - -
1976/77 Atlanta Flames NHL 80 15th 18th 33 16 3 0 0 0 2
1977/78 Atlanta Flames NHL 79 10 22nd 32 20th 2 0 0 0 0
1978/79 Colorado Rockies NHL 70 8th 10 18th 16 - - - - -
1979/80 Colorado Rockies NHL 22nd 2 5 7th 6th - - - - -
1979/80 Fort Worth Texans CHL 57 14th 35 49 16 - - - - -
1980/81 Fort Worth Texans CHL 77 19th 16 35 40 5 2 3 5 4th
CHL total 135 33 51 84 56 5 2 3 5 4th
AHL total 280 93 141 234 179 22nd 8th 16 24 14th
NHL overall 564 98 141 239 175 9 2 1 3

( 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 )

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personal data
SURNAME Comeau, Rey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Comeau, Reynald Xavier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada