Maxime Ouellet
Ouellet with the Hershey Bears in 2005
Born (1981-06-17) June 17, 1981
Beauport, Quebec, Canada
Height 6 ft 2 in (188 cm)
Weight 195 lb (88 kg; 13 st 13 lb)
Position Goaltender
Caught Left
Played for Philadelphia Flyers
Washington Capitals
Vancouver Canucks
NHL Draft 22nd overall, 1999
Philadelphia Flyers
Playing career 20002009

Maxime Ouellet (born June 17, 1981) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and Vancouver Canucks from 2000 to 2006. He also played several years in the American Hockey League, retiring in 2009. Internationally he played for the Canadian national junior team at both the 2000 and 2001 World Junior Championships, winning a bronze medal each year.

Playing career

Medal record
Representing  Canada
World Junior Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sweden
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Russia

As a youth, Ouellet played in the 1994 and 1995 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Beauport, Quebec City.[1]

Ouellet was drafted by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round, 22nd overall at the 1999 NHL Entry Draft. He later was traded with a first, second, and third round draft choice in 2002 NHL Entry Draft to the Washington Capitals for Adam Oates. He holds several records for the former AHL affiliate of the Washington Capitals, the Portland Pirates. On December 2, 2005, the Washington Capitals traded Ouellet to the Canucks in exchange for a fifth round selection in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft (Maxime Lacroix).

After not playing to start the 2006–07 season, in late December 2006, Ouellet was signed by the Portland Pirates to goal tend alongside Dov Grumet-Morris. One week later in January 2007, he left Portland without playing a game and was reportedly trying to sign with a European team. In January 2007, Ouellet signed to a contract with the German hockey club Kassel Huskies.

Ouellet was signed by the New York Islanders to a minor-league contract with the Bridgeport Sound Tigers on July 26, 2007. After failing to make the team, he signed a contract on November 11, 2007, with the Salzburg Red Bulls of the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga in Austria.[2]

On January 24, 2008, Ouellet signed a contract with the Mississippi Sea Wolves of the ECHL.[3] He was traded from the Sea Wolves to the Trenton Devils where he played 5 games with a 3.21 GAA and a 0.877 save percentage.

On October 16, 2008, it was announced that Ouellet had signed with the St. Marie Poutrelles Delta of the LNAH.

Career statistics

Regular season and playoffs

Regular season Playoffs
Season Team League GPWLTOTLMINGASOGAASV% GPWLMINGASOGAASV%
1996–97 Sainte-Foy Gouverneurs QAAA 29168014708102.75 9455553103.37
1997–98 Quebec Remparts QMJHL 24127111886603.33.893 7313051603.15.892
1998–99 Quebec Remparts QMJHL 5940126344715532.70.909 13678034113.06.910
1999–00 Quebec Remparts QMJHL 5331164298413322.67.916 11746382822.63.912
2000–01 Rouyn-Noranda Huskies QMJHL 25186114716532.65.913 8444902503.06.904
2000–01 Philadelphia Flyers NHL 201076302.38.889
2000–01 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 210086402.78.926
2001–02 Philadelphia Phantoms AHL 4116138229410412.72.911
2001–02 Portland Pirates AHL 63303581702.85.923
2002–03 Portland Pirates AHL 4822167277311172.40.929 211120804.00.889
2003–04 Washington Capitals NHL 62313651913.12.910
2003–04 Portland Pirates AHL 52152983050101101.99.930 522303801.59.942
2004–05 Portland Pirates AHL 4015203230511102.89.911
2005–06 Hershey Bears AHL 100041507.37.737
2005–06 Vancouver Canucks NHL 40212221203.25.894
2005–06 Manitoba Moose AHL 169709464602.92.894 301127602.85.919
2006–07 Kassel Huskies GER-2 23.53
2007–08 Trenton Devils ECHL 53202991603.21.887
2008–09 Sainte-Marie Poutrelles Delta LNAH 95.42.870
AHL Totals 206818826011853499182.53.919 10345502402.61.915
NHL totals 1226116633413.08.903

International

Year Team Event GPWLTMINGASOGAASV%
2000 Canada WJC 63223601101.83
2001 Canada WJC 74213981011.51
Junior totals 137437582111.66

References

  1. "Pee-Wee players who have reached NHL or WHA" (PDF). Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament. 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-10.
  2. Red Bull Salzburg - Icehockey Archived 2007-06-27 at archive.today
  3. ECHL Transactions Archived 2008-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
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