How About A Goalie Goal...???

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For this, which is always cool, we go to the Quebec Major Junior League

Cape Breton (which is responsible for the video) Screaming Eagles goalie Francois Brassard pulled this off against Quebec


According to the QMJHL, Brassard becomes only the fourth goaltender in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League history to score, behind Antoine Lafleur (P.E.I., 2005), Maxim Gougeon (Rimouski, 2008) and Peter Delmas (Lewiston, 2008).

Salud...

Quebecor Buys Remparts: Is This The First Step...???

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The HQ believes it is, yes...

For a reported $20-25 million pricetag, Quebecor Media has picked up the QMJHL's Quebec Remparts franchise and will move them into their soon-to-be-constructed Quebecor Arena in September 2015.

This should be the first step in proving, once and for all, that the city is ready for multiple franchises on multiple levels in an integrated fashion not seen yet (top to bottom) in a franchise farm system.

"The Remparts organization has passion, hard work and success in its DNA. We are honoured to become its owners, and we want to continue this ‘sacred’ tradition by keeping the Remparts at the same level of excellence while providing the best possible experience for Quebec City hockey fans,” said Québecor president and CEO Pierre Dion.

The Remparts have been busy in the past week doing things like this against Sherbrooke
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They're currently third in the East Division- four points out of first behind Rimouski and Baie-Comeau.

“I am very happy to see that the Remparts will have the chance to inaugurate the new arena next season and continue the Vieille Capitale’s great junior hockey tradition,” said Quebec Major Junior Hockey League commissioner Gilles Courteau.

Junior Hockey Player Loses Finger On Slapshot

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Okay, before you click...

The story is more gross than the video below...


From the QMJHL, Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Jason Fuchs was playing D and the power of the shot sheared his finger from his hand. It was, thankfully, sewn back on and he will be able to recover. But there's no timetable on his return to the ice in his team's playoff series with the Quebec Remparts...

15 Goals In One Game... For One Team...

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15 goals on one side is one thing, but giving up 15 is something entirely different...

The Halifax Mooseheads scored 15 against the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies last night...

Here's all 15...


The breakdown...

The teams were tied at four after the first period, but Halifax scored five goals in the second and six more in the third.

Andrew Ryan, Nikolaj Ehlers and Brent Andrews had two goals and three assists each.
Danny Moynihan and Jonathan Drouin also scored twice.
Brendan Duke, Jesse Lussier, Darcy Ashley, Matt Murphy and Austyn Hardie also had a goal on the score sheet.

And all their mothers are pleased with the outcome...

16 Year-Old Junior Hockey Prospect Dies On Ice

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Sadly, the community of Bathurst, New Brunswick has been the place for too much tragedy over the last few years.

Another event, this time during the Acadie-Bathurst Titan training camp, has shaken the small community and the junior hockey world.

16-year-old Jordan Boyd collapsed during a skating drill. A physical therapist provided CPR after Boyd fell on the ice, lost consciousness and stopped breathing.

Results from an autopsy are expected later this week.

Shawn McKenzie was in Bathurst to see how the franchise and the town are feeling at present...
Dan Arsenault of the Chronicle Herald newspaper caught up with those who knew Boyd: Bill Short of the Hockey Nova Scotia High Performance Program was on the ice last week with Boyd and other young players preparing for junior camps. “He never worked so hard in his life as he did this summer,” Short said, adding that Jordan told him he was very excited to be heading to a QMJHL camp. “We talked last Tuesday night about it, quite a bit. He couldn’t wait to get there because it was the most prepared he’s ever been.”

Two Full Teams Fight On Ice In Juniors (UPDATED With Suspensions)

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The HQ is not above putting a good brawl on the page, but a good brawl involving two full squads...???

You betcha...especially one that starts as the game ends...

We go to Quebec Major Juniors, or the QMJHL, where two of the coolest nicknames went at it in game 4 of a seven-game semifinals series that is now tied at two games apiece after the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada defeated the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 4-3...

See...? Told you the nicknames were cool...

Anyway... even the back-up goalies got into it...and the call is in French...
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The littering is immense...

Game 5 is Friday night in Baie-Comeau- for those of you who want to try and see Round 2...

PM UPDATE: According to the Canadian Press, the QMJHL suspended 12 players, fined one, banned both coaches for two games and fined the two teams C$5,000 each.

Blainville-Boisbriand will be without five players- Ryan Tesink was suspended two games. Aaron Hoyles, Yassin Cisse and goalies Etienne Marcoux and Guillaume Decelles each got one game.

Baie-Comeau's Bokondji Imama was suspended two games. Jeremie Gregoire, Gabriel Verpaelst, Jon Banville, Alexandre Ranger and goalies Philippe Cadorette and Francis Desrosiers each got one game.

Blainville-Boisbriand forward Cedric Paquette, who looked like he started the brawl when he taunted the visitors, was fined $1,000 for "inappropriate behaviour."

Armada coach Jean-Francois Houle and Baie-Comeau's Eric Veilleux were each suspended two games.

The teams will have to use third-string goalies in Game 5.
Whaddya wanna bet that the "over" will be the play here...???