Victor Mete

Victor Mete
Date of birth	June 7, 1998
place of birth	Toronto , Ontario , Canada
size	175 cm
Weight	83 kg
position	defender
number	# 53
Shot hand	Left
Draft
NHL Entry Draft	2016 , 4th round, 100th position Canadiens de Montréal
Career stations
2014-2017	London Knights
since 2017	Canadiens de Montréal

Victor Mete (born June 7, 1998 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian ice hockey player who has been under contract with the Canadiens de Montréal from the National Hockey League since March 2017 and plays for them in the position of defender .

Career

Victor Mete was born in Toronto and went through the junior teams of the Toronto Jr. Canadiens . In the Priority Selection of the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), the defender was selected by the Owen Sound Attack in eighth position in 2014 , but handed over to the London Knights a few months later and without having played a competitive game . In return, Owen Sound received six draft votes from the Knights. Thus Mete ran for the London Knights in the OHL at the beginning of the 2014/15 season and came there as a rookie in 58 games on 23 points , so that he was elected to the OHL Second All-Rookie Team . His breakthrough at the Knights came the following year, when he and the team won both the OHL playoffs for the J. Ross Robertson Cup and the subsequent Memorial Cup and led all defenders in the league in the plus / minus statistics ( +53). As a result, Mete was considered in the NHL Entry Draft 2016 in 100th position by the Canadiens de Montréal .

The Canadiens provided the Canadian with an entry level contract after another OHL season in March 2017 , before surprisingly in the subsequent preparation for the season - both because of his late draft choice and because of his height of 1 for NHL standards , 75 meters below average physique - a place in the Canadiens roster. As a result, Mete made his debut in October 2017 in the National Hockey League (NHL).

International

On an international level, Mete made his debut at the World U-17 Hockey Challenge in November 2014 , where he finished sixth with Team Canada Red . In August 2015, he participated in the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament , with the defender winning the gold medal with the Canadian selection. When he was appointed to the Canadian U20 team for the first time , he also won the gold medal in the 2018 U20 World Junior Championship .

Achievements and Awards

• 2015 OHL Second All-Rookie Team
• 2016 J. Ross Roberton Cup win with the London Knights
• 2016 Memorial Cup win with the London Knights

International

• 2015 gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament
• 2018 gold medal at the U20 World Junior Championship

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
2014/15	London Knights	OHL		58	7th	16	23	+19	14th		10	1	7th	8th	-4	2
2015/16	London Knights	OHL		68	8th	30th	38	+53	18th		18th	4th	7th	11	+15	0
2016	London Knights	Memorial Cup									4th	1	0	1	+5	2
2016/17	London Knights	OHL		50	15th	29	44	+36	14th		14th	1	6th	7th	-3	4th
2017/18	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		49	0	7th	7th	+5	4th		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Rocket de Laval	AHL		7th	1	3	4th	+2	0		-	-	-	-	-	-
2018/19	Canadiens de Montréal	NHL		71	0	13	13	+17	6th		-	-	-	-	-	-
OHL total				176	30th	75	105	+108	46		42	6th	20th	26th	+8	6th
NHL overall				120	0	20th	20th	+22	10		-	-	-	-	-	-

International

Represented Canada to:

• World U-17 Hockey Challenge 2014 (November)
• Ivan Hlinka Memorial Tournament 2015
• U20 World Junior Championship 2018

year	team	event	result		Sp	T	V	Pt	+/-	SM
2014	Canada Red	WHC	6th place		5	1	1	2		4th
2015	Canada	Hlinka Memorial			4th	0	1	1	+1	0
2018	Canada	U20 World Cup			6th	0	3	3	+11	2
Juniors overall					15th	1	5	6th		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

• Player biography on the Canadiens de Montréal website
• Victor Mete at eliteprospects.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knights acquire Mete. londonknights.com, September 8, 2014, accessed October 22, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Canadiens sign defenseman Victor Mete. nhl.com, March 27, 2017, accessed October 22, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Pat Hickey: Canadiens rookie Victor Mete pushing for NHL job. montrealgazette.com, September 26, 2017, accessed October 22, 2017 . 
4. ^ Andrew Berkshire: An early analysis of how Victor Mete is fitting in with the Canadiens. sportsnet.ca, October 11, 2017, accessed on October 22, 2017 .