Claude Verret (; April 20, 1963 â March 13, 2025) was a Canadian professional ice hockey centre. He was drafted in the eighth round, 163rd overall, by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1982 NHL entry draft.
Verret was born in Lachine, Quebec (in present-day Montreal) but grew up in Quebec City, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1975 and 1976 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournaments with a minor ice hockey team from Beauport, Quebec.
In the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, he tallied 462 points in 200 games over three seasons with the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, winning the Jean Béliveau Trophy in 1981âÂÂ82 as the league's leading scorer. He scored another 183 points in 141 games during his first two seasons in the American Hockey League with the Sabres' farm club, the Rochester Americans, and won the Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award in 1983âÂÂ84 as the league's top rookie.
Despite this success at the junior and minor league levels, Verret did not make much impact in the National Hockey League. He played in just fourteen games with the Sabres, eleven in 1983âÂÂ84 and three in 1984âÂÂ85. He scored two goals and added five assists.
Verret began playing in Europe in 1987, spending many seasons playing in France and Switzerland before retiring in 1999. He died on March 13, 2025, at the age of 61.