of Fame in 2014. Comeau finished his playing career with the Maine Mariners in the American Hockey League (AHL), with seven games during the 1982–83 AHL season playoffs. Coaching career Comeau began his coaching career with the Saginaw Gears during the 1981–82 IHL season, and the 1982–83 IHL season, until the team folded, acting as the player-coach and general manager. He became a full-time coach with the Calgary Wranglers for the 1983–84 WHL season. Comeau switched to the Saskatoon Blades for the 1984–85 WHL season, and stayed with the team for five seasons. He led Saskatoon to improved records in three successive seasons, reaching the third round of the playoffs in the 1986–87 WHL season. Comeau led Saskatoon to 47 wins and the east division title in the 1987–88 WHL season, and was awarded the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy as the WHL Coach of the Year. The Blades moved out of Saskatoon Arena during his fifth season, into the new Saskatchewan Place, and were scheduled to host the 1989 Memorial Cup. Comeau led Saskatoon to second place in the east division with 42 wins, and into the third round of the 1988–89 WHL season playoffs. At the 1989 Memorial Cup, Comeau's Blades won 5–3 over the Laval Titan, lost 3–2 to the Peterborough Petes, and won 5–4 over the Swift Current Broncos to reach a berth in the finals. Saskatoon was leading in the third period of the Memorial Cup championship game, but were defeated 4–3 in overtime by Swift Current. Comeau stepped down from his position with the Blades on August 10, 1989. Comeau was named director of hockey operations and head coach of the New Haven Nighthawks on August 11, 1989. In his first season coaching in the AHL, Comeau led the New Haven to seventh-place finish, and missed the playoffs. The following season, his team struggled again and Comeau became the first AHL coach to be fired mid-season in nearly six years, on November 29, 1990. Comeau took over as head coach of a struggling Winston-Salem Thunderbirds team in the East Coast Hockey League on January 12, 1991, but was unable to get his new team into the 1990-91 ECHL season playoffs. Comeau was hired as the first head coach for the expansion Tacoma Rockets in the WHL, on April 17, 1991. In his 1992–93 WHL season with Tacoma, he led the team to 45 wins, and