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CARSON, CA – MARCH 07: GK Maxime Crepeau #16 of the Vancouver Whitecaps warming up during a game between Vancouver Whitecaps and Los Angeles Galaxy at Dignity Health Sports Park on March 07, 2020, in Carson, California. (Photo by Michael Janosz/ISI Photos/Getty Images) /

4. Maxime Crepeau

The only man on our list who is yet to win any silverware during his time in MLS comes in at No.4, a goalkeeper who has spent the entirety of his eight-year tenure in the league north of the border, Maxime Crepeau.

Before making his professional debut he spent the first part of his youth career with Celtic du Haut-Richelieu, before joining the Montreal Impact Academy, where he spent there years before graduating to the first team.

MLS Career & Honours:

Montreal Impact (2013-2018)
Vancouver Whitecaps (2019-)

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Single-game record for saves made (16)

Having spent the 2015 season on loan with FC Montreal, he made his debut for the Impact in the first leg of the 2017 Canadian Championship semi-final against the Vancouver Whitecaps. However, he would only play for the club three times before another loan spell away from the club, this time with Ottawa Fury, where he set a new USL single-season record for shutouts, surpassing the previous record of 15.

Following the 2018 campaign, Crepeau left the Impact, but stayed north of the border, signing for the Whitecaps, where he immediately became the club’s first-choice goalkeeper. He played 26 times for the franchise in the 2019 season and made over 100 saves, one of eight goalkeepers to achieve that amount in the regular-season.

He broke a 22-year-old Major League Soccer record midway through the campaign, as Crepeau made 16 saves in a single game against the San Jose Earthquakes, a fixture in which the ‘Quakes also broke several records for the number of shots they had. Those 16 saves were, unfortunately, not enough to Vancouver the win, but the Canadian shot-stopper broke Tony Meola’s record of 15, set back in 1997.

Before the start of the 2020 campaign, Crepeau claimed his place as Canada’s No.1 goalkeeper, playing in all three friendlies the national side played in January. They defeated Barbados twice, before losing by a single goal to Iceland, with the shot-stopper playing all 270 minutes for his country.

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