After exactly 1,000 AHL games combined with hundreds more in the ECHL and DEL, the Texas Stars top defenseman in every statistical category, Maxime Fortunus, called it a career earlier this month.
Before he was announced as an assistant coach for the Texas Stars, 100 Degree Hockey was able to sit down with him over Zoom for an extended interview. Given the quality of Fortunus’s answers and the sure interest of the Texas Stars fanbase in his replies, I have decided to post a lightly edited transcript of our conversation in the interest of not leaving anything out and letting the always loquacious Fortunus speak for himself.