Maxime Boisclair

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Maxime Boisclair (b. February 14th 1985 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a canadian ice hockey player. Until 2006, he played for the Chicoutimi Saguenéens of the QMJHL, where he left his mark, being a gifted left winger. The former number 97 was best scorer of the league for the season 2005-06, notching 70 tallies and 130 points.

Despite his impressive numbers, Boisclair was never drafted to the NHL, even though he was eligible for the 2005 and 2006 drafts. The scouts usually agreed to criticize his lack of mobility on the ice and his lacunes of work ethic such as intensity, hard work and quickness of execution, all being required attributes to perform well in the very competitive elite level of professional hockey.

He took part of the rookie training camp of the Tampa Bay Lightning in 2005; he however wasn't selected and went back to Chicoutimi. In September 2006, he attended to the American Hockey League's Springfield Falcons training camp. Considering the lack of open spots in their lineup, Boisclair was cut and temporarily assigned to their ECHL's farm team, the Johnstown Chiefs, where he was reunited with his Chicoutimi teammate Stanislav Lascek.