Draveurs de Trois-Rivières

Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
founding	1969
resolution	1992
history	Ducs de Trois-Rivières 1969–1973 Draveurs de Trois-Rivières 1973–1992 Faucons de Sherbrooke 1992–1998 Castors de Sherbrooke 1998–2003 Lewiston MAINEiacs 2003–2011
Stadion	Colisee de Trois-Rivières
Location	Trois-Rivières , Quebec
league	Québec Major Junior Hockey League
Memorial Cups	no
Coupes du President	1977/78 , 1978/79

The Draveurs de Trois-Rivières were a Canadian ice hockey team from Trois-Rivières , Québec . The team played from 1969 to 1992 in one of Canada's three highest junior ice hockey leagues, the Québec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL).

history

The team was founded in 1969 under the name Ducs de Trois-Rivières as a franchise of the Québec Major Junior Hockey League , making them one of the founding members of the league. After the 1973/74 season, the name was changed to Draveurs de Trois-Rivières, under which they played until 1992. The draveurs achieved their greatest success by winning the Coupe du Président in the 1977/78 and 1978/79 seasons. First they defeated Junior de Montréal 8-0 in the 1978 final and a year later the Castors de Sherbrooke with the same result. As champions of the QMJHL, they then qualified for the final tournament for the Memorial Cup , in which they could not prevail against the other teams in the Canadian Hockey League . In addition to winning titles in the QMJHL, the team from Trois-Rivières failed in the final in 1981, 1982 and 1992.

Following the 1991/92 season, the franchise was relocated to Sherbrooke , where it then took part in the QMJHL game operations under the name Faucons de Sherbrooke .

Former players

The following players, who were active for the Ducs / Draveurs de Trois-Rivières, played in the National Hockey League during their career :

Pierre Aubry Joel Baillargeon Ray Bourque Francois Breault Paul Brousseau Eric Charron Enrico Ciccone Jacques Cloutier Roland Cloutier Alain Daigle

Richard David Martin Desjardins Andre Dore Donald Dufresne Benoit Gosselin Gilles Hamel Denis Herron Jean-François Labbé Pierre Lacroix Claude Lapointe

Steve Larouche Alain Lemieux Claude Lemieux Eric Messier Bob Mongrain Yanic Perreault Michel Picard Alain Raymond Pascal Rhéaume Normand Rochefort

Dominic Roussel Yves Sarault Jean-François Sauvé Martin St. Amour Christian Tanguay Jocelyn Thibault Brent Tremblay Pascal Trepanier Claude Verret Alain Vigneault

Team records

Career records

Games: 270 Jacques Cloutier

Goals: 191 Yanic Perreault

Assists: 296 Claude Verret

Points: 462 Claude Verret

Penalty minutes: 957 Sylvain Nantel

Web links

• The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Ducs de Trois-Rivières
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Ducs de Trois-Rivières
• The Internet Hockey Database - Statistics Draveurs de Trois-Rivières
• The Internet Hockey Database - Player List Draveurs de Trois-Rivières