Marcel Comeau was born on March 1,1952 and is a Canadian ice hockey scout, and former player, coach, and National Hockey League team executive.
19 Facts About Marcel Comeau
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Marcel Comeau played eleven seasons in the International Hockey League, where he was the league's top scorer and won the IHL Most Valuable Player Award in 1981.
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Marcel Comeau later coached in the Western Hockey League, winning two WHL Coach of the Year Awards, and a Canadian Hockey League Coach of the Year Award.
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Marcel Comeau led Team Canada to a gold medal at the 1996 World Juniors, and later served as a team executive for the Atlanta Thrashers, and the Winnipeg Jets.
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Marcel Comeau was born on March 1,1952, in Edmonton, Alberta.
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Marcel Comeau played minor ice hockey in town and attended Ponoka Composite High School.
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Marcel Comeau played shortstop on the Ponoka Royals fast-pitch softball club as a youth, and played semi-professional softball in summers.
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Marcel Comeau never played in the National Hockey League, and spent eleven seasons playing with the Saginaw Gears in the International Hockey League.
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Marcel Comeau stepped down from his position with the Blades on August 10,1989.
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Marcel Comeau was named director of hockey operations and head coach of the New Haven Nighthawks on August 11,1989.
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Marcel Comeau was hired as the first head coach for the expansion Tacoma Rockets in the WHL, on April 17,1991.
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Marcel Comeau received the Coach of the Year Award for the Canadian Hockey League in the same season.
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Marcel Comeau was head coach of the Canada men's national under-18 ice hockey team which captured the gold medal at the 1994 La Copa Mexico in Mexico City.
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Marcel Comeau served as the executive director of the Sno-King Amateur Hockey Association in the Snohomish County and King County areas, from 1996 to 2000.
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Marcel Comeau worked as a scout with the Independent RHO Hockey Service, and coached the Pacific under-17 team at the 1999 USA Hockey Festival.
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Marcel Comeau was hired as a part-time scout for the Atlanta Thrashers by Don Waddell, a former teammate on the Saginaw Gears.
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Marcel Comeau scouted part-time in Western Canada and the United States from October 1998, until becoming a full-time scout in the same regions in June 2000.
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Marcel Comeau remained in the same position with the organization when it became the second incarnation of the Winnipeg Jets in 2011.
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In 2015, Marcel Comeau stepped down from his position, but remained with the Jets as an amateur scout.