Halifax Mooseheads

Halifax Mooseheads
City	Halifax, Nova Scotia
League	Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Division	Atlantic
Founded	1994 (1994)–95
Home arena	Halifax Metro Centre
Colours	green, black, red, white
General manager	Cam Russell
Head coach	Dominique Ducharme
Website www.halifaxmooseheads.ca

The Halifax Mooseheads are a CHL ice hockey club in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The team was founded in 1994 and began play in the Dilio division of the QMJHL for the 1994-1995 season.^[1] While the franchise has never won a league championship, they have appeared in the President's Cup twice, in 2003 and 2005. The team plays their home games in the Halifax Metro Centre with a capacity of 10,595 seats.

History

The team was first envisioned by Moosehead Breweries regional sales manager Harold McKay in 1993, who believed that Halifax could host a QMJHL team. The QMJHL had teams exclusively located in Quebec, so adding a team in the Maritimes would add to travel costs for the other teams. McKay was confident that the Halifax franchise could be successful and received financial backing from Moosehead Breweries President and CEO Derek Oland. After careful negotiations, the QMJHL expanded to the city of Halifax for the 1994-1995 season. In their first year in 1994, the Mooseheads finished in 6th place and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Beauport Harfangs, taking the first place team to seven games. The Mooseheads are considered pioneers for the QMJHL. Following the success of the Mooseheads, the league began accepting franchises through relocation or expansion into Atlantic Canada, who lost their American Hockey League franchises in the mid 1990's. The QMJHL has franchises in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Moncton, New Brunswick, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. While the league has had success with their Atlantic franchises, only the St. John's Fog Devils failed to garner the interest and following as the other franchises and moved to Verdun, Quebec after their second season.

For more information, see Mooseheads History

Coaches

Clement Jodoin - 1994–95 to 1996–97 Shawn MacKenzie - 1996–97*, 2000–01 to 2004–05 Danny Grant - 1997–98 Robert Mongrain - 1998–99 to 1999–2000 Cam Russell - 2000–01* Chris Donnelly - 2003–04*

Marcel Patenaude - 2004–05* Al MacAdam - 2004–05 to 2005–06 Cam Russell - 2006–10 Bobby Smith - 2010 to 2011 Dominique Ducharme - 2011 -

*interim (regular head coach fired, sick or suspended)

Players

NHL alumni

Ramzi Abid Andrew Bodnarchuk David Brine Frederic Cassivi Marc Chouinard Joe DiPenta

Jeremy Duchesne Benoit Dusablon Ryan Flinn Jean-Sebastien Giguere Eric Houde Milan Jurcina

Jason King Pascal Leclaire Joey MacDonald Brad Marchand Ladislav Nagy Alexandre Picard

Brandon Reid Jody Shelley Alex Tanguay Jakub Voracek Petr Vrana

Retired numbers

• 18 Alex Tanguay
• 25 Jody Shelley
• 47 Jean-Sebastien Giguere

Top scorers

List of top scorers by season.

• 1994–95 - Brant Blackned - 97 pts
• 1995–96 - Eric Houde - 88 pts
• 1996–97 - Francois Sasseville - 73 pts
• 1997–98 - Alex Tanguay - 85 pts
• 1998–99 - Ladislav Nagy - 126 pts
• 1999–2000 - Ramzi Abid - 158 pts
• 2000–01 - Jason King - 89 pts
• 2001–02 - Jason King - 99 pts
• 2002–03 - Stuart MacRae - 96 pts
• 2003–04 - Daniel Sparre - 68 pts
• 2004–05 - Daniel Sparre - 68 pts
• 2005–06 - David Brine - 100 pts
• 2006–07 - Jakub Voracek - 86 pts
• 2007–08 - Jakub Voracek - 101 pts
• 2008-09 - Tomas Knotek and Yuri Cheremetiev, tie - 49 pts
• 2009-10 - Tomas Knotek - 59 pts
• 2010-11 - Carl Gelinas - 54 pts

Current roster

#		Player	Position	Age	From	NHL Draft
4		Mitchell Shewfelt	D	17	Halifax, NS	Undrafted
5		Alexandre Grenier	RW	20	Laval, QC	Vancouver Canucks 2011
6		Josh Desmond	D	17	Halifax, NS	Undrafted
7		Trey Lewis	D	18	Moncton, NB	2011
9		Andrew Ryan	LW	17	St. John's, NL	2012
10		Konrad Abeltshauser	D	19	Bad Tolz, Germany	San Jose Sharks 2010
11		Cameron Critchlow	LW	20	Summerside, PEI	Undrafted
16		Travis Randell	RW	20	Twillingate, NL	Undrafted
17		Darcy Ashley	RW	18	Summerside, PE	2011
19		Ryan Falkenham	RW	16	Halifax, NS	2013
21		Gabriel Desjardins	LW	19	Montreal, QC	2011
22		Nathan MacKinnon	RW	16	Cole Harbour, NS	2013
27		Brad Cuzner	LW	19	Glace Bay, NS	Undrafted
31		Zachary Fucale	G	16	Rosemère, QC	2013
44		Steve Gillard	D	19	St. John's, NL	Undrafted
48		Luca Ciampini	LW	17	Montreal, QC	2012
57		Matthew Boudreau	C	18	St-Eustache, QC	2011
73		Anthony Terenzio	G	18	Norwalk, CT	2011
77		Sawyer Hannay	D	19	Moncton, NB	Vancouver Canucks 2010
79		Brent Andrews	LW	18	Hunter River, PE	Nashville Predators 2011
81		Alexandre Côté	C	19	Kirkland, QC	2011
88		Austyn Hardie	D	17	Montreal, QC	2011
91		Martin Frk	RW	18	Karlov Vary, Czech Republic	2012

^[2] Roster as of 06/09/11

Yearly results

Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss

Season	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	OTL	SL	Points	Pct %	Goals for	Goals against	Standing
1994–95	72	24	42	6	-	-	54	0.375	257	317	6th in Dilio
1995–96	70	32	36	2	-	-	66	0.471	258	262	4th in Dilio
1996–97	70	37	29	4	-	-	78	0.557	267	255	3rd in Dilio
1997–98	70	24	41	5	-	-	53	0.379	263	316	5th in Dilio
1998–99	70	46	20	4	-	-	96	0.686	298	206	2nd in Dilio
1999–2000	72	41	20	6	5	-	93	0.611	316	259	2nd in Maritimes
2000–01	72	32	24	10	6	-	80	0.514	235	253	1st in Maritimes
2001–02	72	39	21	9	3	-	90	0.604	267	197	2nd in Maritimes
2002–03	72	44	15	10	3	-	101	0.681	289	206	1st in Maritimes
2003–04	70	17	43	7	3	-	44	0.293	194	274	4th in Atlantic
2004–05	70	42	16	10	2	-	96	0.671	242	172	1st in Atlantic
2005–06	70	35	33	-	1	1	72	0.507	246	258	5th in East
2006–07	70	32	31	-	3	4	71	0.457	269	287	6th in East
2007–08	70	42	23	-	0	5	89	0.600	278	241	1st in East
2008–09	68	19	41	-	3	5	46	0.279	193	290	6th in Atlantic
2009–10	68	13	48	-	3	4	33	0.191	171	288	6th in Atlantic
2010–11	68	20	43	-	2	3	45	0.331	186	262	5th in Maritimes Division

References

1. ^ http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/default.asp?mn=1.7.25 Mooseheads history
2. ^ http://en.lhjmq.qc.ca/roster/index/team/57/sort/last

External links

• Mooseheads official web site
• The Q Files Metro Halifax's Mooseheads Blog
• QMJHL Arena Guide profile
• QMJHL official web site