Brandon Montour

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Brandon Montour (born April 11, 1994) is a Canadian ice hockey defenceman. He is currently playing with the Anaheim Ducks in the National Hockey League (NHL). Montour was selected by the Ducks in the second round, 55th overall, of the 2014 NHL Entry Draft.

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Early life

Montour is of First Nations descent and grew up in Ohsweken, a village inside the reserve of Six Nations of the Grand River. Six Nations is known to have the greatest number of people among all First Nations in Canada. His father, Cam Montour, is Native American. In tribute to this, Brandon has an uncompleted tattoo on his left arm that consists of a headdress and feathers.

Montour spent eight years living in Tilbury, Ontario, where he completed his elementary education. He then moved to Ohsweken, Ontario and attended Assumption College School, in Brantford, Ontario. Montour also grew up playing lacrosse and won a Minto Cup with the Six Nations Arrows.

Montour also played in lacrosse tournaments with Nick Ritchie, a fellow Duck's team member, as well as Ritchie's brother, Brett Ritchie, who plays for NHL's Dallas Stars.

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Playing career

Montour started his hockey journey playing minor hockey in Cambridge, Ontario prior to joining the Brantford Golden Eagles hockey club in 2010-11. Montour then joined the Caledonia Corvairs for one season in 2012-13.

Montour played with the Waterloo Black Hawks of the United States Hockey League and one season with the University of Massachusetts Amherst where he became the highest NHL draft pick in their school program's history. Montour started his professional career, at the age of 21, with the Anaheim Ducks' affiliate, the Norfolk Admirals of the AHL towards the end of the 2014-15 season. He would then play the entire 2015-16 season with the Ducks' relocated AHL affiliate, the San Diego Gulls. Montour was selected to the 2017 AHL All-Star game for the second consecutive year. Despite not playing the entire season for the Gulls, Montour had amassed 21 points in only 25 games.

Montour spent the first half of the 2016-17 ice hockey season with the San Diego Gulls before he was called up to NHL's Anaheim Ducks on December 29, 2016. He scored his first NHL goal in his sixth game against Tampa Bay Lightning on February 6, 2017. He finished the season with 4 assists and 2 goals in 27 games, then provided seven more assists in the next seventeen games of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Montour stuck with NHL's Anaheim Ducks for the 2017-18 season and has contributed 9 goals and 23 assists so far. He averages about 22 minutes of ice time per game. Montour has a salary of $925,000 and a net worth of $2,775,000.