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Maxime Ouellet - #33


      Position: G
      Glove: Left
      Height: 6' 2"
      Weight: 195 lbs.
      Born: June 17, 1981
      Age: 24 Years
      Nationality: Canadian
      Birthplace: Beauport, Quebec
      Drafted: Philadelphia
      Flyers, 1st round,
      22nd overall, 1999

      Contract Particulars:
      One-year, two-way contract
      (Signed August 15, 2005)

      Salary: $856,900 (2005-06)


Contract Particulars:
Maxime Ouellet signed a three-year, entry-level, two-way contract with the Philadelphia Flyers on September 13, 2000, for the $1,025,000 million per year rookie limit allowable under the 1995-2004 CBA for 1999 draft picks, plus performance and signing bonuses.

He played only two games with the Flyers in the 2000-01 season, and therefore the first year of the contract was only triggered with the start of the 2001-02 season. Ouellet's entry-level contract expired with the completion of the 2003-04 season, making him a Restricted Free Agent (RFA). Looking back, Ouellet made very rare NHL appearances over the course of his first NHL contract, and he made $425,000 in the AHL in the final year of his two-way deal.

The Capitals extended Ouellet a qualifying offer on June 30, 2004, which according to the rules of the 1995-2004 CBA constituted 110 percent of his previous year's contract, since his salary was below the average NHL salary in that year. This came out to a two-way, one-year contract that paid an NHL salary of $1,127,500 for 2004-05. The NHL lockout precluded Ouellet from drawing his NHL salary, however, and he played the entire season with the AHL Portland Pirates, drawing his AHL salary.

The Capitals tendered Ouellet a qualifying offer following the expiration of the 2004-05 NHL lockout and corresponding transaction freeze. On August 15, 2005, Ouellet accepted the one-year, two-way contract offer. Per the terms of the new CBA, since Ouellet's NHL salary for 2004-05 exceeded $1 million, the Capitals were required to qualify him at only 100% of his previous year's salary ($1,127,500). This was then re-adjusted to allow for the 24% rollback as agreed to by the NHL and the NHLPA in the CBA negotiations, pegging Ouellet's 2005-06 NHL salary at $856,900.


Career statistics: HockeyDB.com

Updated: August 15, 2005


Brian Marshall


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