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That is the month-to-month recap of all the highest information tales from the QMJHL for the month of September.
League:
Amidst rumours of a St. John’s based mostly possession group that’s trying to buy the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, we looked at the history and feasibility of hockey in Newfoundland.
The league saw the additions of five new members to the QMJHL Hall of Fame together with the likes of Patrice Bergeron, Alex Daigle and former commissioner Gilles Courteau.
League commissioner Mario Cecchini confirmed some adjustments for the 2024-25 season, including a shortened schedule, changes to player safety and the renaming of an award in honor of former player David Desharnais.
Moreover, the league raised $16,110 at its first auction for the ‘QMJHL Foundation’. The proceeds from the occasion will go in the direction of funding the tutorial careers of the league’s gamers.
This month additionally noticed the debut of the Quebec Remparts new black third jersey, which debut the weekend of the retirement of Jonathan Marchessault’s number.
Gamers:
Forward of the 2024-25 season, we laid down the highest gamers to observe in plenty of classes:
We also did full breakdowns on the rosters of all 18 of the QMJHL’s teams this past month.
With the season beginning, we also published our second 2025 NHL Draft watchlist.
This season has already seen a great deal of participant motion, with Val-d’Or trading NHL first rounder Matvei Gridin to Shawinigan and overager Samuel St-Hilaire being dealt to Rimouski after starter Quentin Miller goes down with injury.
As for signings, Saint John’s Eriks Matieko and Rimouski’s Spencer Gill have each inked entry degree offers with the Washington Capitals and the Philadelphia Flyers respectively.
Firstly of the month, three Cape Breton Eagles players were involved in a multi-car accident. Fortunately, neither of three obtained critical accidents and Lucas Romeo has already performed in video games this season.
Worldwide:
Alumni:
The QMJHL pre-season might have completed this month, however the NHL pre-season has simply begun. League alumni together with Jakub Zboril, Mike Hoffman, Sammy Blais earned PTOs, the latter two of whom have already got been reduce by the Oilers and Canucks.
With that, we looked at a number of players who may break into NHL lineups.
This summer season, we checked out former QMJHL stars who would possibly go to free company. This month, we instead we pondered about who could get dealt this season.
The final remaining restricted free brokers from the league have signed with their respective groups in Dawson Mercer (New Jersey), Jakob Pelletier (Calgary) and Nikita Alexandrov (St. Louis).
We wrote about the QMJHL’s representation on The Hockey News’ Top 50 player list, together with the likes of Nathan MacKinnon and Sidney Crosby — who just signed a two year extension to stay in Pittsburgh.
Moreover, we wrote about a number of NHL milestones to track throughout this season.
On the finish of the month, the Rimouski Océanic and the Gatineau Olympiques came together to celebrate the life and career of their former goaltender, Creed Jones, who passed away earlier this summer in a motorcycle accident.
Enjoyable:
Former QMJHL star goaltender Olivier Rodrigue attended the NHLPA rookie showcase. He was photographed for promotional materials in addition to for the needs of Higher Deck making a rookie card. Moreover, he possible bought his face scanned for the brand new NHL 25 online game.
Talking of which, Raphael looked at NHL 25’s highest rated former QMJHL talent.
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