Max Pacioretty Parents: Meet Raymond Pacioretty, Ana Pacioretty

Max Pacioretty is a professional ice hockey player from the United States. He is the son of Raymond Pacioretty and Ana Pacioretty.

Max Pacioretty revealed in an interview with the Montreal Gazette that his parents knew very little about the game before he got interested in it as a youngster. However, they were supportive.

“I was such a crazy kid that my parents just brought me to the rink to get me out of the house because I was driving them nuts,” Pacioretty recalled. “My mom grew up in Mexico and had never been ice skating before in her life. So I went out there the first time and I fell on my face and cut open my chin.”

Max Pacioretty’s mother assumed her son would never want to skate again. But when Pacioretty asked to return to the rink the next day, his mother decided they needed to find a helmet with a facemask.

Max Pacioretty’s mother became interested in hockey after realizing her son had the potential to earn a university scholarship, which Pacioretty eventually did at the University of Michigan.

Max Pacioretty was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens in the first round, 22nd overall, in the 2007 NHL entry draft.