There’s been a mini-mass exodus of gamers leaving the NHL to affix the Russian Kontinental Hockey League this offseason, and former Anaheim Geese second-round decide Maxime Comtois is the newest one.
On Thursday morning, HC Dynamo Moscow formally introduced it had signed Comtois for the 2024-25 season.
“Maxime Comtois is a quick, highly effective striker,” Dynamo head coach Alexey Kudashov mentioned. “After all, he should strengthen the primary two attacking traces. Not afraid to work in each space of the location. Nice skilled. At coaching camp, he’ll already work with the workforce.”
Comtois was the fiftieth total decide in 2017, however he by no means actually discovered a task in his 5 seasons in Anaheim. His greatest yr got here through the COVID-shortened 2020 season when he notched 16 objectives and 33 factors in 55 video games. However in comparison with the remainder of his tenure, his manufacturing that yr appeared extra of an outlier than the rest.
Comtois signed knowledgeable tryout take care of the Vegas Golden Knights final offseason however did not make the workforce out of coaching camp.
He signed a one-year contract with the Chicago Wolves of the American Hockey League (he scored 19 objectives and 44 factors in 65 video games) and signed a one-year deal for the remainder of the season with the Carolina Hurricanes in March, although he appeared in only one recreation and tallied an help.
Not tendered a qualifying provide by Carolina, Comtois adopted within the footsteps of Evgeny Kuznetsov, Egor Afanasyev, Wade Allison, Rourke Chartier, Ruslan Iskhakov and Steven Kampfer as NHL/AHLers to depart for Russia.
