The Sherbrooke Castors or Beavers (in English) was the name of two different
junior ice hockey
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teams in the
Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
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and another team in the Quebec Eastern Provincial Hockey League. Both later franchises played at the
Palais des Sports in
Sherbrooke
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,
Quebec
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, Canada.
Earlier Castors
The earlier Sherbrooke Beavers were a
senior ice hockey
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Senior hockey leagues operate under the jurisd ...
team which won the
1965 Allan Cup, and previously played in the Quebec Eastern Provincial Hockey League, an amateur league and team from 1959 to 1962.
Original Castors
The Sherbrooke Castors (1969-1982) moved to
Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu,
Quebec
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in 1982, named the
Saint-Jean Castors Saint-Jean (French for Saint John) may refer to:
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Canada
*Lac Saint-Jean
*Lac-Saint-Jean-Est Regional County Municipality
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. In 1989 they were renamed the
Saint-Jean Lynx
Saint-Jean Lynx were a junior ice hockey team which played from 1989 to 1995 in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They played at the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur. In 1982 they moved from Sherbrooke and were formerly the Sherbrooke Castors. Th ...
. In 1995 the team moved to
Rimouski
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,
Quebec
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to become the
Rimouski Océanic
The Rimouski Océanic are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The franchise was granted for the 1969–70 season as the Sherbrooke Castors. The Castors played in Sherbrooke from 1969 to 1982 before moving t ...
.
This original Castors franchise won the
President's Cup
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in 1975, 1977 and 1982. The second incarnation never won. The Castors played in the
Memorial Cup
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in those three years, and came closest to winning in 1982, when they lost in the tournament final to the
Kitchener Rangers
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.
Sherbrooke Faucons/Castors
The second Sherbrooke Castors team (1998-2003), originally the
Trois-Rivières Draveurs
The Trois-Rivières Draveurs ("Raftmen") were a Canadian junior ice hockey team playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). They played home games at the Colisée de Trois-Rivières, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The team was origina ...
, franchise moved to Sherbrooke in 1992 as the
Sherbrooke Faucons
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("Falcons"). The Faucons were renamed to Castors in 1998 and moved to
Lewiston, Maine
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in 2003, to be renamed the
Lewiston Maineiacs. The Maineiacs folded in 2011, and the City of Sherbrooke received an expansion franchise in 2012 in the form of the
Sherbrooke Phoenix
The Sherbrooke Phoenix is a major junior ice hockey team based in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada, that plays in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The team plays its home games at the Palais des Sports Léopold-Drolet.
History
The franchi ...
.
NHL alumni
The following Castors/Faucons later played in the
National Hockey League
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Dmitry Afanasenkov
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Norm Aubin
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The Toronto Maple Leafs (officially the Toronto Maple Leaf Hockey Club ...
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Alain Belanger
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Yves Bélanger
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Serge Boisvert
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Paul Boutilier
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Fred Burchell
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Claude Cardin
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Ron Carter
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John Chabot
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Dan Chicoine
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Rejean Cloutier
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Jean Cusson
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Claude Cyr
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Mathieu Dandenault
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He was a member of the 1997, 1998, a ...
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Gord Donnelly
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Gilles Dube
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Norm Dube
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Norm Dussault
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Jean-Francois Fortin
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Ray Fortin
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Fortin died on May 7, 2023, at the age of 82.
Caree ...
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Gerard Gallant
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Jean-Marc Gaulin
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Jere Gillis
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Alan Haworth
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Pierre Jarry
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Brian Johnson
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Claude Larose
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Fern LeBlanc
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Rejean Lemelin
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Jean Lemieux
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Mario Lessard
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Gilles Lupien
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Drew MacIntyre
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Jimmy Mann
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Peter Marsh
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Sean McKenna
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Corrado Micalef
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Richard Mulhern
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Simon Nolet
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Michel Petit
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Noel Picard
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Roger Picard
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Pascal Rheaume
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Dany Sabourin
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Richard Sevigny
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Bobby Simpson
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Claude St. Sauveur
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Radoslav Suchy
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Jocelyn Thibault
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Rick Vaive
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Sid Veysey
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Kurt Walker
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Ice hockey clubs established in 1969
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1969 establishments in Quebec
1982 disestablishments in Quebec
1998 establishments in Quebec
2003 disestablishments in Quebec