Rocket Announce Vogue Optical "Shooting for the Stars"
October 24, 2011 - Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)
P.E.I. Rocket News Release
Vogue Optical and the PEI Rocket have teamed up to offer an experience to minor hockey players that kids dream of. Vogue Optical "Shooting for the Stars" will have two Atom A or two Novice teams squaring off against each other in a breakaway competition between the first and second periods of select PEI Rocket home games (non-school nights). The team that scores the most goals will receive honorable mention from our in-game hostess and the top two teams for the year will come back to face each other to declare the Vogue Optical "Shooting for the Stars" champion, in March.
To register a team for this great opportunity, fill out the registration form below. If selected, each team will receive a ticket for each player participating and his/her parent, for the game in which they are participating. Don't miss your chance to score goals like the Rocket on their very own ice on game night!!!
Maxime Lagacé Named to Subway Super Series Roster
The following details were released earlier today by the QMJHL:
The Victoriaville Tigres and the Quebec Remparts organizations, in collaboration with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and the Canadian Hockey League, today held simultaneous press conferences to announce the roster of Team QMJHL which will compete against Team Russia in the 2011 Subway Super Series.
The Tigres will host the first game of the series on Monday, November 7th at the Colis�e Desjardins, while the Remparts will host game two at the Colis�e Pepsi on Wednesday, November 9th. Then, Team Russia heads west to play two games versus the OHL and WHL All-Stars. All six contests will be televised nationwide on Rogers Sportsnet while TVA Sports will broadcast the two contests in QMJHL territory.
Each of the three CHL member leagues assembled a selection committee, which worked closely with Hockey Canada's Chief Scout, Kevin Prendergast, to select the players for this year's series. The QMJHL selection committee included QMJHL's Executive vice-president, Marcel Patenaude, the Director of Hockey Operations, PierreLeduc and the general managers of the Quebec Remparts, Patrick Roy, the Victoriaville Tigres, Jérôme Mésonéro and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, Sylvain Couturier. A total of twenty-three players will participate in the event this year. The rosters for each game will be announced at a later date.
Among the players selected, the 3rd, 17th, 26th and 28th first round picks of the 2011 NHL Entry Draft, Jonathan Huberdeau (SNB), Nathan Beaulieu (SNB), Phillip Danault (VIC) and Zack Phillips (SNB) as well as 2nd and 4th round picks Xavier Ouellet (BLB) and Jean-Gabriel Pageau (GAT). It is also worth noting that Drummondville Voltigeurs' centre Sean Couturier, will also be included in the roster if he is released by the Philadelphia Flyers.
Here is the QMJHL roster for the 2011 Subway Super Series:
Goaltenders
Maxime Lagacé (PEI)
Louis Domingue (QUE)
Defensemen
Brandon Gormley (MON)
Morgan Ellis (CAP)
Jérôme Gauthier-Leduc (RIM)
Xavier Ouellet (BLB)
Pierre Durepos (SNB)
Nathan Beaulieu (SNB)
Martin Lefebvre (QUE)
Samuel Carrier (BAC)
Forwards
Zack Phillips (SNB)
Carl Gélinas (BAC)
Charles Hudon (CHI)
Jonathan Huberdeau (SNB)
Jean-Gabriel Pageau (GAT)
Yanick Dubé (VIC)
Philippe Halley (VIC)
Phillip Danault (VIC)
Nathan MacKinnon(HAL)
Raphaël Bussières (BAC)
Zach O'Brien (BAT)
Matthew Bissonnette (BAT)
Michaël Bournival (SHA)
Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League Stories from October 24, 2011
- Regimbald Is Back - Gatineau Olympiques
- Terenzio out 1 Week; MacKinnon Named to Subway Super Series Rosters - Halifax Mooseheads
- Gauthier, Gauthier-Leduc and Huberdeau named TELUS three stars of the week - QMJHL
- Rocket Announce Vogue Optical "Shooting for the Stars" - P.E.I. Rocket
- QMJHL Announces 2011 Subway Super Series Roster - QMJHL
- Macdonald in, Rousseau out - Gatineau Olympiques
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