Xavier Parent

Xavier Parent (born March 23, 2001) is a Canadian ice hockey forward for the Utica Comets of the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL).

Playing career Junior Parent was selected fourth overall in the 2017 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) draft by the Halifax Mooseheads, for whom he would record 63 points in 130 games over his first two seasons. Following his second season with Halifax, in the summer of 2019, he was traded to the Sherbrooke Phoenix for defenceman Cameron Whynot and a third-round pick in 2021.

Over the next two seasons, Parent would play just 49 games, missing significant time due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a back injury. He was not selected by NHL teams in his draft-eligible seasons.

Professional Parent made his professional debut not with the Comets, but with their ECHL affiliate, the Adirondack Thunder. In his first professional season in 2022–23, he recorded 51 points in 50 games.

In the 2023–24 season, his first full season in the AHL, Parent recorded 15 goals and 45 points in 71 games, including a hat trick, his first in the AHL, against his hometown Laval Rocket.

The Comets re-signed Parent to a one-year contract for the 2024–25 season. Although Parent began the year with Utica, he was called up to the Devils after Timo Meier took a personal leave of absence. He made his NHL debut on December 11, 2025, in an 8–4 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Career statistics Regular season and playoffs

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