The Quebec Remparts have announced that they will retire the number of their former alternate captain Jonathan Marchessault.
The number #18 will head to the rafters ahead of the September 21st game against the Victoriaville Tigres.
Marchessault is the ninth Rempart to receive the honour, joining elite company including:
Selected in the 12th round, with the eighth last pick, of the 2007 QMJHL draft, Marchessault was always an underdog.
He donned the Remparts uniform for the entirety of his 254 game QMJHL career, where he scored 98 goals and 141 assists for a total of 239 points. In the playoffs, he notched 54 points (17+37) across 52 games.
He is a one-time addition to the QMJHL first all-star team, and led the 2011-12 QMJHL playoffs in points and assists despite his team getting eliminated.in the third round.
Despite Marchessault’s great production and play, he wouldn’t get drafted instead fighting his way through the minor league system and into the NHL.
He would bounce around the league from Columbus to New York to Tampa Bay and to Florida where he finally broke out.
Despite the monster 30-goal, 51 point season, Florida let him walk to the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2017 NHL expansion draft, where he would evolve once more into a true first line forward.
He and his band of misfits would go on to make the Stanley Cup Finals in year one. Unsatisfied with the result, he and the Knights would claw back to the Stanley Cup Finals in 2023, ultimately winning it all, in large part to his Playoff MVP wining 25 point (13+12) playoff campaign.
The 33=year old has notched 487 career points (230+257) across 637 NHL games, and will look to only add more as he signed a five-year deal with the Nashville Predators this off-season.
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