Phoenix de Sherbrooke

Phoenix de Sherbrooke
founding	May 31, 2011
history	Phoenix de Sherbrooke since 2012
Stadion	Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet
Location	Sherbrooke
Team colors	Navy blue, light blue, beige
league	Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Quebec
division	Telus Ouest
Head coach	Judes Vallée
Team captain	vacant
General manager	Patrick Charbonneau
owner	Investor group around Jocelyn Thibault
Memorial Cups	no
Coupes du President	no

The Phoenix de Sherbrooke ( English Sherbrooke Phoenix ) are a Canadian ice hockey franchise from Sherbrooke in the province of Québec . The team was founded on May 31, 2011 and will play from the 2012/13 season in one of the three highest Canadian junior ice hockey leagues , the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec (LHJMQ). The team plays in the 4,176-seat Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet . The team colors are navy blue, light blue and beige.

history

The Lewiston MAINEiacs had been relocated from Sherbrooke to Lewiston in the US state of Maine in 2003 , which meant that the city was no longer represented in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec . The MAINEiacs had a successful period before they were bought out by the league for $ 3.5 million due to financial difficulties after the 2010-11 season . For the 2011/12 season , the game was therefore stopped and the number of teams in the LHJMQ fell to 17 participants.

At the same time, the league management awarded the license to the city of Sherbrooke. On November 24, 2011, Team President Denis Bourque announced that the franchise would be named Phoenix . The officials deliberately gave the team a nickname in English , as a smaller junior team with the French nickname Phénix already exists in the city .

Season statistics

Abbreviations: GP = games, W = wins, L = defeats, T = draws, OTL = defeats after overtime, SOL = defeats after shootout , Pts = points, GF = goals scored, GA = goals against, PIM = penalty minutes

season	GP	W.	L.	OTL	SOL	Pts	GF	GA	space	Playoffs
2012/13	68	21st	38	3	6th	51	188	282	6th, Telus Ouest	First round loss, 0-4 ( Drakkar de Baie-Comeau )
2013/14	68	16	43	4th	5	41	180	300	6th, Telus Ouest	not qualified
total	136	37	81	7th	11	92	368	582		1 playoff participation 1 series: 0 wins, 1 loss 4 games: 0 wins, 4 losses

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Neate Sager: QMJHL: Pass or fail? Introducing the Sherbrooke Phoenix. (No longer available online.) Yahoo! Sports , November 27, 2011, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 14, 2012 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ ^{a b} The Canadian Press : QMJHL buys Mainiacs and prepares to dissolve franchise, announces Sherbrooke team. National Hockey League , June 1, 2011, accessed February 14, 2012 . 
3. ^ The Canadian Press : New QMJHL team named Sherbrooke Phoenix. CBC , November 24, 2011, accessed February 14, 2012 .