Maxime Ouellet

Maxime Ouellet ( born June 17, 1981 in Quebec City, Quebec ) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender, who was last to 2009 when the Poutrelles Delta de Sainte -Marie in the Ligue Nord - Americaine de Hockey under contract.

• 2.1 International

Career

Maxime Ouellet began his career in 1997 in the Canadian Junior Football League QMJHL Quebec Remparts at the. He was voted the best goalkeeper in the league and selected a short time later in the NHL Entry Draft in 1999 by the Philadelphia Flyers in the first round to 22 out of 1999. He played one more year with the Remparts, before moving to the National Hockey League.

At the beginning of the 2000/01 season he played two games in the NHL and also two in the AHL for the Philadelphia Phantoms, the farm team of the Flyers. Then he was sent but again in the QMJHL, where he managed the rest of the season played in the Rouyn -Noranda Huskies.

The season 2001/02 season he played with the Philadelphia Phantoms to it by the Flyers Only, was transferred to a second and a third round draft pick for Adam Oates to the Washington Capitals along with a. The rest of the season, he completed the farm team of the Capitals of the AHL, the Portland Pirates. He remained there until 2005. Between, he came in the 2003/04 season to six inserts for the Capitals in the NHL.

In December 2005 he was transferred for a fifth- round draft pick to the Vancouver Canucks. There, too, he played most of the season in the AHL, this time for the Manitoba Moose. But he was at least four times in the season for the Canucks used.

After the season, his contract was not renewed in Vancouver and until the end of December 2006, he was in one of his former teams, the Portland Pirates, a new employer. There he but was dismissed in January 2007, and subsequently signed a contract with the Kassel Huskies.

In the summer of 2007 he returned to North America and was engaged by the New York Islanders. For this, however, he did not play. Instead, he graduated to the end of the 2007/08 season five games in the ECHL for the Trenton Devils. The season 2008/ 09 he spent at the Poutrelles Delta de Sainte -Marie in the Ligue Nord - Americaine de Hockey. Since they had to set the game mode early even during the current season he is vertragslos.

Internationally

For Canada, Ouellet took part in the U20 World Junior Championships in 2000 and 2001. He played a total of 13 missions.

Awards and achievements

Internationally

• 2000 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships
• 2001 bronze medal at the U20 World Junior Championships