Marc Lapointe

**Pierre Marc Lapointe** is a Canadian hockey player originally from Laval, Quebec. Marc is one of the two main characters of the novel *You Could Make a Life,* together with Dan Riley.

## Marc Lapointe

### Nickname(s)

Pointe-dexter, Pointer, Pointe, Lauppi, Diver, Mr. Montreal, Monsieur Montréal, Papa

### Relationships

Dan Riley *(husband)*
Pierre Lapointe *(father)*
Sylvie *(mother)*
Charlie Riley Lapointe *(daughter)*
Leon Lapointe *(son)*
Patrice Lapointe *(brother)*

### Series

You Could Make a Life
Vinny Gets a Life
If All Is Enough

## Player Info

### Team(s)

Shawinigan Cataractes (QMJHL)Toronto Maple Leafs
**Montreal Canadiens**

### Jersey Number(s)

9
 27

### Drafted

1st round (2nd overall)
 2008
Toronto Maple Leafs

## Personal life

He was born in Laval, where his family still lives. He has a little brother, Patrice Lapointe, but their relationship was never good.

He had a girlfriend in high school but was sure he was asexual until he was drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs and met Dan Riley, whom he would later marry (in 2014) and with whom he has two children (Charlotte and Leon). He also met Ulf Larsson there, who will remain his best friend. He came out of the closet in 2011, after Dan Riley was outed. They adopted a dog.

Three years after retirement from hockey, he started working as media relations for the Montreal Canadiens.

He is very politically involved and has taken to the role of out hockey player and social activism.

He published his autobiography in 2040.

## Playing career

### Juniors

He played for the Shawinigan Cataractes in the QMJHL.

### NHL

He was drafted as a forward to the Toronto Maple Leafs in the first round. He won the Stanley Cup with them in 2011.

During the 2012/2013, the team changed the style of play and fans, media and coach blamed the struggles under the new system on him. Management approached him about a trade or a buy-out. In the spring of 2013, he got traded, along with his then-boyfriend Dan Riley, to the Montreal Canadiens. Since his number (9), was retired by the team, he picked a random one. After getting married to Dan Riley in January 2014, he took Dan's number (27).

Marc played the majority of his career for the Montreal Canadiens and his jersey number was retired at that club. He retired with them in 2030, after a game against the Bruins. He won two Stanley Cups with the Habs, the second one in 2026. He wore an A from his third year there and was offered the captaincy, but refused.

He was named to the ASG in 2019 in Montreal, where he captained one of the teams.

He played against his husband in the playoffs at least once, and it wasn't pretty.

At 50, he played in a Sens-Habs Alumni game.

He was inducted into the HHOF.

### International

He represented Canada in the Olympics in 2014, 2018 and 2022. He won Gold in 2018, where he scored the GWG assisted by Adam Rousseau. He also won Silver at the Olympics, Silver and Gold in Juniors and Bronze in Worlds.

## Physical appearance and personality

He has deep-blue eyes and sandy blond hair. In the thicc scale, he is **Smol (except not at all, just for a hockey player)!**.

He cannot grow a beard to save his life. His hair is sandy blond and remains so by the time he's 45. He looks very hot in glasses, according to his husband, but has also been described as teen idol pretty by other people. His style could be described as vaguely hipster.

In the Global 5-SLOAN Multidimensional Typing System, he would be RCUEI and he's an INFP. He's a little evil, which he gets from his mother. His Enneagram type is 8/4 with secondary 5. He's contrary. His love language is Quality Time.

## Trivia

* He was a Montreal Canadiens fans growing up.
* His play is similar to that of Maurice Richard. Contemporary, his play is similar to that of Matt Duchene.
* He's in the "don’t expect them to get into fights and they are as terrible as you thought" category.
* In the Canadian Bird debate, he would be in Team Snowy Owl.
* He confiscates his husband's maple-leaf-shaped sunglasses during the Sochi Olympics because he is not fun.
* He wants to dress his kids in punny costumes for Halloween.
* He often plays with his son Leon and Leon's chemistry kit, sometimes causing small accidents.
* In an AU where he was a reporter, he would have studied Sexual Diversity Studies in UoT.
* He realised he was in love with his boyfriend Dan Riley during a dinner with his mother in Vegas, after losing the Calder, but he realised he was falling for him when he stopped to think why he was mad at Dan's disappearances during their rookie year.
* He thinks Dan is the greatest guy to ever walk the Earth and the world is BLIND for not seeing it.
* He has a tendency to lose glasses, which he needs to read.
* He dislikes Dan's refusal to be politically involved.
* He uses all the hot water.
* He's the little spoon.
* He steals the blankets.
* He gets sex ideas from fanfiction starring himself and his husband.
* He almost failed science (don't tell anybody).
* He always puts his left skate on first.
* He has had some injuries but is almost suspiciously healthy.
* He once staged a team-wide boycott of a Montreal newspaper who insulted Dan.
* He genuinely likes Thomas Vincent.
* He thinks Molson Export beer is a punishment.
* He scoffs at Harry Potter, but cares enough to rant.
* He would be uninterested in fucking his own clone, but he would be ok with a threesome with his clone and Dan.
* He believes Goddard is overrated.
* He loses at Hungry Hungry Hippos. He doesn't deal well with that.
* In a Hogwarts AU, he would be a Slytherin and would be very vocal about discrimination against his House. He would later become a reporter for The Daily Prophet.
* Initially, he was not going to take part in the Sochi Olympics. That changed later.
* He loves chocolate.
* He and his husband rarely argue, but they do not talk when their teams play each other in the playoffs. The biggest fight they had was years in their marriage, due to Marc suggesting Dan was not faithful.
* He's the parent who can't deny his kids anything.
* He gives contradictory interviews in English and French.
* He drives like a mad man.
* He's a good cook, when he bothers (which isn't often).
* If he were a dog, he would be a poodle.
* He has an accent.
* He made sure "Can't help falling in love" was played at his and Dan's wedding. They danced to it.
* He kills spiders.
* He tried gardening to relax before Charlie was born, but he was terrible at it.
* In the reaction to cold scale, he's "All I need is a coat, if that, if I’m shivering that just makes me STRONGER."
* Marc wears briefs out of necessity – skinny jeans – and in his forties has an amazing collection of hilarious boxers because they become a Riley-Lapointe Christmas tradition to get him annoyingly patterned boxers he blanches at and then inevitably actually wears to bed.
* Doesn’t cry at weddings and wouldn’t cry at his own.

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