Ben Guité
Benjamin Pierre Guité (born July 17, 1978) is a Canadian ice hockey coach and former professional forward. Guité played 13 seasons of professional hockey, most notably in the National Hockey League with the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, and the Nashville Predators. He is the son of former World Hockey Association player Pierre Guité. After his playing career, he began coaching. In 2021 he was the head coach of the Maine Mariners in the ECHL. As of July 2022, he is the head coach of the Bowdoin College Men's hockey team. Playing career As a youth, Guité played in the 1992 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from the Lac-Saint-Louis area of Montreal. Guité was drafted 172nd overall in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft by the Montreal Canadiens. Guité played junior hockey for the Capital District Selects of the Eastern Junior Hockey League, before continuing his career at the University of Maine in the Hockey East division. Unsigned, Guité made his professional debut in 2000 with the Tallahassee Tiger Sharks of the ECHL before signing with the New York Islanders as a free agent on August 1, 2001. On March 19, 2002, while playing with the