The Chicoutimi Saguenéens are a junior ice hockey team which plays in the

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (french: Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec; abbreviated ''QMJHL'' in English, ''LHJMQ'' in French) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League. The l ...

(QMJHL). The team is based out of

Chicoutimi Chicoutimi () is the most populous borough (arrondissement) of the city of Saguenay in Quebec, Canada. It is situated at the confluence of the Saguenay and Chicoutimi rivers. During the 20th century, it became the main administrative and co ...

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, Canada (now a part of the city of Saguenay) and owned by the City of Saguenay. The team plays its home games at the Centre Georges-Vézina.

History

The Chicoutimi Saguenéens franchise was granted for the 1973–74 season. The team's name, ''Saguenéens'', literally means "People from the Saguenay." The current junior team is only the most recent to use the name. The "Sags", as they are popularly nicknamed, have won the President's Cup twice in their history, in 1990–91 and in 1993–94. In both instances they advanced to the

Memorial Cup The Memorial Cup () is the national championship of the Canadian Hockey League, a consortium of three major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tournament played between ...

, failing to advance past the round-robin stage on each occasion. The Sags also participated in the 1997 Memorial Cup, as the host

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had won the QMJHL title that year; the Saguenéens also did not advance past the round-robin that year. Finally, the Centre Georges-Vézina hosted Memorial Cup festivities in 1988, but the team did not participate as then-current QMJHL rules forced the host team to make it to at least the President's Cup final, which the Saguenéens did not do in that year.

Yearly results

Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss

Playoffs

Players

NHL alumni

* Ramzi Abid * Joel Baillargeon * Ľuboš Bartečko *

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* Michel Bolduc *

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* Marc Bureau *

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* Stéphane Charbonneau * Denis Chassé * Alain Côté *

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* Glen Cressman *

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* Gilbert Delorme * Marc Denis * Nicolas Deschamps * David Desharnais * Gord Donnelly * Daniel Doré * Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers * Luc Dufour *

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* Éric Gélinas *

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* David Gosselin * Denis Hamel * Gilles Hamel * Alan Haworth *

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* Chris Langevin *

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* Alain Lemieux * Normand Léveillé * Daniel Marois *

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* Alain Nasreddine *

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* Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau *

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* Daniel Poulin *

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* Jean-Marc Richard * Stéphane Richer * Antoine Roussel * André Roy *

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* Stéphane Roy *

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* Lukáš Sedlák * Louis Sleigher *

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* Bob Sullivan *

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Retired numbers

* 14 – Alain Côté * 16 – Normand Leveille * 18 – Sylvain Locas * 20 –

* 21 –

* 29 –

References

External links

Official site
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