Max Pacioretty
American ice hockey player (born 1988)

Maximillian Kolenda Pacioretty is an American former professional ice hockey left winger.
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This entry incorporates text from “Max Pacioretty” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.