Mark Hurtubise

Playing career

Hurtubise played major junior hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League from 2001 to 2005 where he scored 161 points in 247 games played. He made his professional debut in the United Hockey League playing with the Adirondack Frostbite for the 2005-06 season.

After two year in the ECHL with the Long Beach Ice Dogs and the Mississippi Sea Wolves, he continued his career overseas.

He joined the Edinburgh Capitals of UK’s Elite Ice Hockey League for the 2008-09 season, followed by some years in Sweden. He spent the 2009-10 season with third-division side Olofströms IK, tallying 35 goals and 40 assists in 40 games and got picked up by Almtuna IS of the country’s second-tier Allsvenskan prior to the 2010-11 campaign. Hurtubise transferred to fellow-Allsvenskan team Leksands IF for the 2011-12 season. After two years with the club he received the chance to prove his skills in Sweden’s top flight SHL: On April 26, 2013, AIK IF announced to have signed Hurtubise for the upcoming 2013/2014 season.

He started 2014-15 campaign with Ilves of the Finnish top flight Liiga. On October 17, 2014, IF Björklöven of the HockeyAllsvenskan, the second-highest league in Sweden, announced the signing of Hurtubise for the rest of the season 2014/2015.

At the beginning of the 2015–16 campaign, Hurtubise played 14 games for HC Red Ice of the Swiss second-division National League B. In December 2015, he moved to Krefeld Pinguine of the German top flight Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) where he inked a deal for the remainder of the season.

In July 2016, he put pen to paper on a contract with EC KAC of the Austrian Hockey League.