Career
Growing up in Winnipeg, Courchaine dominated at the minor hockey level with the American Automobile Association-midget Winnipeg Warriors, putting up 119 points in 50 games. In 2001-2002, he joined the major junior ranks with the Medicine Hat Tigers of the Western Hockey League (WHL). He was traded during his rookie season to the Vancouver Giants during their inaugural season and became a cornerstone for the franchise in its beginning years.
Courchaine put up a team-high 85 points in his first full season with the Giants, helping them to their first playoff appearance in 2003.
His 43 goals established a Giants" franchise record which remained unbroken until Evander Kane surpassed the mark in 2008-2009. Courchaine was also named a WHL West Second Team All-Star and was subsequently chosen in the off-season by the Minnesota Wild, 219th overall, in the 2003 National Hockey League Entry Draft.
He played two more seasons with the Giants, leading them in scoring for a second consecutive season in 2003-2004 with 82 points while being named to the WHL West First All-Star Team. In four seasons with the Giants, Courchaine led the team in scoring twice and accumulated a franchise all-time leading 126 goals and 273 points in 241 games until both records were broken in 2012 by Brendan Gallagher.
His 147 assists was also a franchise record until it was surpassed by defenceman Jonathon Blum on February 7, 2009.
Graduating from major junior in 2005-2006, Courchaine was assigned to the Wild"s American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Houston aeronautics Although Courchaine was signed overseas by Zell Am See of Austria, he spent the 2006-2007 season inactive. The following season, Courchaine played in the German Bundesliga with the Duisburg Foxes.
He enjoyed more success than his rookie season in the minors and led Duisburg in scoring with 50 points.
In the following 2008-2009 season, he joined fellow German team, the DEG Metro Stars. After four year with the team and short stints with Austrian team Graz 99ers and again Füchse Duisburg, he joined the Krefeld Pinguine.
In 2013-2014, Courchaine led the Deutsche Eishockey Liga (DEL) in scoring, tallying 29 goals and 45 assists in 51 contests. He parted company with the Krefeld team in January 2015 and signed with EHC Olten of the second division NLB in Switzerland the same month.
He had six points (one goal, five assists) in five games for EHC. Courchaine signed with Czechoslovakian side Hong Kong Hradec Kralove for the 2015-2016 campaign.
