Joseph Normand "Ti-Nomme" Dussault (September 26, 1925 – August 28, 2012) was a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice hock ...

player who played 206 games in the

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. Dussault was born in

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, where his father worked as an iceman. He moved to

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional count ...

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, when he was two years old. Dussault played for the

Montreal Canadiens The Montreal CanadiensEven in English, the French spelling is always used instead of ''Canadians''. The French spelling of ''Montréal'' is also sometimes used in the English media. (french: link=no, Les Canadiens de Montréal), officially ...

. Dussault also played

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as an

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, first with the Sherbrooke Canadians in 1946, then with the

Sherbrooke Athletics The Sherbrooke Indians were a minor league baseball team located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. They played in the Provincial League from 1948 to 1951 as the Sherbrooke Athletics and again from 1953 to 1955 as the Indians. They won the first Prov ...

(1948–1950), and finally with the

Sherbrooke Indians The Sherbrooke Indians were a minor league baseball team located in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. They played in the Provincial League (baseball minor league), Provincial League from 1948 to 1951 as the Sherbrooke Athletics and again from 1953 to 19 ...

in 1955.

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