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max dayton hunter ,
full name: max dayton hunter
nicknames: maxey, hunts
age: twenty four
birthday: november twenty second
education: university of north dakota
occupation: professional hockey player
marital status: married currently seperated
current city: chicago
hometown: winnipeg, manitoba, canada
parents: judith and paul hunter
siblings: gable hunter
other: reilly max hunter, son
max dayton hunter was born with the weight of expectation on his shoulders. to say that he was born into a hockey dynasty would have been an understatement. his grandfather had won a gold medal for canada in the olympic games when he was just eighteen years old. his father had already hoisted the stanley cup three times in his professional career, and his older brother gable was the most steady four year old on skates. so on christmas morning when he was three years old he unwrapped his first pair of skates and the rest, so they say, is history. his father retired soon after and much of max's childhood is simply filled with memories of his father and his brother on skating on the outdoor rink in their back yard until they couldn't see the puck.
by the time he was sixteen he had been shipped off to one of the best boarding schools in the us where the high school hockey program rivaled most college hockey programs. by the time he was graduating high school and committing to playing at north dakota state, he was the top rated draft pick of his year. one year later when he was eligible for the draft he was selected first overall by the chicago blackhawks. all this time if there was word to desirable max, the one word that had been repeated over and over again in countless scouting reports, interviews, and draft analysis, it was the word mature. because max hunter was always aware of the weight of expectation on his shoulders and he relished it his entire life. the chance to strive to be great is what drove him.
for most turning nineteen meant maybe accomplishing your first year of college, for max it meant leading his team to their first playoff appearance in five years and winning rookie of the year. twenty for most might have them anxiously declaring a major or fighting for an internship, for max he was crowned the captain of the blackhawks but more importantly max hunter became a father and husband, in that order, at twenty. max met aubrey when he was nineteen, she was a first year student at university of chicago, and they dated, if you could really call trying to see each other while max was playing an eighty two game season, but they saw each other enough, and they were stable enough. then almost as soon as the season ended aubrey told max that she was pregnant. you can see a lot of a person's true character when they are faced with an unexpected turn in their life. max handled it as he handled most things with maturity and no small amount of stoicism.
max married aubrey two months after their son reilly max hunter was born. aubrey dropped out of school to be a full time mom. in any other circumstances, max would have wanted her to keep going to school but that would just give reilly two absentee parents instead of just one. while reilly was taking his first steps, max scored two points in a three - two victory over pittsburgh. when he came home and heard his reilly say his first words "cap", aubrey simply smiled and said "yes, that's the captain". but when he was twenty two years old and got to skate his son on to the ice where he had just hoisted the stanley cup for the first time in chicago for forty nine years, max felt at peace over the fact that he had missed so much in his kid's life.
the bliss didn't last long. by the next year, the cracks and the holes in his relationship with aubrey were starting to show. the bitterness that she felt over having to drop out of school started to seep into their relationship, the anger that max felt that she blamed him for all this and for not spending enough time with them started to suffocate max. max started to hide the fact that he and his wife were leading completely separate lives at this point. by his twenty fourth birthday, max was living alone in an unfurnished apartment, living out of a suitcase and a hockey bag. he saw reilly as often as he could as many times as his game schedule allowed, and he waited.
[KALIAN , CHICAGO, JONATHAN TOEWS