Rey Comeau
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
- 1966 LHJMM Second All-Star Team
- 1972 Calder Cup win with the Nova Scotia Voyageurs
Career statistics
Regular season | Playoffs | |||||||||||||
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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 )
Web links
- Rey Comeau at legendsofhockey.net ( Memento from March 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Rey Comeau at eliteprospects.com (English)
personal data | |
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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 |