Ken Montour

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Ken Montour
Born (1979-09-09) September 9, 1979 (age 44)
Six Nations, Ontario, Canada
Nationality Flag of the Iroquois Confederacy.svg Iroquois
Height5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight190 pounds (86 kg)
ShootsRight
PositionGoalie
NLL draft26th overall, 1999
Albany Attack
NLL teams Buffalo Bandits
Philadelphia Wings
Arizona Sting
Columbus Landsharks
Pro career 2002–2010
NicknameMonster

Ken "Monster" Montour (born September 9, 1979 in Six Nations of the Grand River First Nation) is a former professional box lacrosse player in the National Lacrosse League. Montour played 8 seasons in the NLL, most of them with the Buffalo Bandits. Montour is an Ontario Lacrosse Hall of Fame, NLL Champion & Mann Cup Champion.

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National Lacrosse League

Ken Montour was drafted in the 4th round, 26th overall by the Albany attack in 1999.

During the 2001 season, he made his professional debut. He appeared in 6 games that season, and had a record of 1 win and no loses. He had a save % of 0.676 during his first year as a pro.

During the 2009 NLL season, he was named a starter to the All-Star Game [1] and was also named NLL Goaltender of the Year. [2]

During the 2010 season, Montour was hit by Toronto Rock defender Drew Petkoff and suffered a concussion. Montour finished the game but has not played since. He has also missed all but one half-day in his job as a teacher. [3]

In 2017, He was inducted into the ontario lacrosse hall of fame [4]

Early in his Career

Being from Six Nations, Ken Montour began his lacrosse journey as a young boy playing minor box lacrosse on Six Nations. He had early success in his minor playing days; he received several accolades, like the Larry Ruse Award for a leading goalkeeper in a midget in the OLA and a Gold medal in the Indigenous Games field lacrosse in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1995.

As a member of the Six Nations Arrows, he was named the 1999 Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League Most Valuable Player and was a Tom Longboat Award Finalist. After playing for the Arrows, where he was just named to the team’s Hall of Fame, he played almost all of his summer lacrosse as a senior for the Chiefs, except for 2001 and 2002, where he made the move out west and played for the Western Lacrosse Association’s Coquitlam Adanacs, helping Coquitlam win their first ever a Mann Cup in 2001.

At the university field lacrosse level, Montour was a member of the four-time Ontario championship teams at Brock University, and was named an Ontario University Athletics All-Star, and was the MVP of the 2003 championship game

International play

Ken Montour also competed internationally with the Iroquois Nationals. In 1996 and 1999, he represented the Iroquois Nationals Under-19 Field team in Japan and Australia. The 1999 team won bronze. In 2002,& 2007, he represented the Iroquois Nationals Mens Box team and competed in In the Box Lacrosse Championship. He was instrumental in the success of the team in those years, helping the team finish second in both tournaments.


Statistics

NLL

  Regular Season Playoffs
SeasonTeamGPMinGASvGAASv %GPMinGASvGAASv %
2002Buffalo662224621.4667.65%------------
Columbus3125319614.8475.59%------------
2003Columbus16147367814.7468.42%------------
2005Arizona72083910811.2473.47%30000.000.00%
2006Arizona00000.000.00%------------
Buffalo40000.000.00%1172126.8785.71%
2007Philadelphia12102214812.3069.57%------------
2008Buffalo154808234610.2480.84%360124112.0077.36%
2009Buffalo156511044519.5881.26%210416749.2182.22%
2010Buffalo73857026010.9078.79%------------
NLL Totals852,1614051,43311.2477.97%9182301279.9180.89%

Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; GA = Goals-against; GAA =  Goals-against average; Sv = Shots  saved; SV% =  Save percentage;

Awards

2001 - Mann Cup with Coquitlam Adanacs 2009 - NLL Championship

Preceded by NLL Goaltender of the Year
2009 		Succeeded by

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References

  1. ↑ "All-Star reserves announced". NLL.com. February 19, 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
  2. ↑ "Defense, Transition & Goaltender Awards". NLL.com. May 11, 2009. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009. Retrieved 2009-05-12.
  3. ↑ Stamp, Stephen (Apr 7, 2011). "Concussion ends the career of Merrick Thomson; Does lacrosse have a head trauma issue?". ILIndoor.com. Archived from the original on August 14, 2012. Retrieved May 28, 2011.
  4. ↑ https://ontariolacrossehalloffame.com/gallery-item/ken-monster-montour/ [ bare URL ]


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