{"id":109033,"date":"2025-08-01T01:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109033\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T01:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T01:44:08","slug":"stefan-matteau-announces-retirement-becomes-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/109033\/","title":{"rendered":"Stefan Matteau Announces Retirement, Becomes Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jul. 31st:<\/strong> Matteau will only have to take a different pathway around the bench for the next portion of his career following his playing days on the ice. According to Aaron Portzline of The Athletic<\/a>, Matteau will become the next assistant coach for AHL Cleveland. He\u2019ll replace former coach Mark Letestu<\/a><\/strong>, who became the next head coach of the AHL\u2019s Colorado Eagles this offseason.<\/p>\n

May 12th:<\/strong> Longtime minor-leaguer Stefan Matteau<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>has retired, the AHL\u2019s Cleveland Monsters announced<\/a> Monday.<\/p>\n

Matteau, 31, had spent the last two seasons on AHL deals with the Blue Jackets\u2019 affiliate. Injuries limited him to only four goals and 13 points in 30 games during that time, but he did dress as the team\u2019s captain when healthy in 2024-25 and contributed seven points in 15 games.<\/p>\n

The son of former NHLer\u00a0Stephane Matteau<\/a><\/strong> kicked off his professional career with a bang. A versatile 6\u20192\u2033, 207-lb forward with good skating and a heavy-hitting game, he went 29th overall to the Devils in the 2012 draft. His post-draft season was peculiar \u2013 he was recalled midway through the campaign from his junior team, the QMJHL\u2019s Blainville-Boisbriand Armada. He spent two months with the Devils before finishing the campaign in juniors again. That initial stretch of three points in 17 games in New Jersey for Matteau would end up standing as one of his career\u2019s most extended NHL stretches.<\/p>\n

The Illinois native never spent a full season on an NHL roster and bounced between the Devils, Canadiens, Golden Knights, Avalanche, and Blue Jackets over his 13-year professional career that included seven partial seasons of NHL action. He last played with Colorado in the 2021-22 campaign and totaled a 6-5\u201311 scoring line in 92 appearances with a -18 rating, averaging 10:15 per game.<\/p>\n

Matteau spent nearly all of his career on this side of the Atlantic aside from the 2022-23 campaign, which he split between Sweden\u2019s Link\u00f6ping HC and Germany\u2019s ERC Ingolstadt. He posted 21 points in 35 regular-season games between the two overseas clubs, including 20 in just 19 games with Ingolstadt.<\/p>\n

As for his AHL career, the power winger wraps it up with 76-93\u2013169 in 411 games across 10 seasons with 477 PIMs. All of us at PHR wish Matteau the best in retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jul. 31st: Matteau will only have to take a different pathway around the bench for the next portion…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2995,3110,3104,2994,293,700,62,69531,67,132,68,3116],"class_list":{"0":"post-109033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-colorado-avalanche","9":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","10":"tag-montreal-canadiens","11":"tag-new-jersey-devils","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-retirement","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stefan-matteau","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-vegas-golden-knights"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114950980600863758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}