The Chicoutimi Saguenéens are a Canadian

junior ice hockey Junior ice hockey is amateur-level ice hockey for 16 to 20 year-old players. National Junior teams compete annually for the IIHF World Junior Championship. The United States men's national junior ice hockey team are the defending champions from ...

team which plays in the

Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL; , LHJMQ), formerly the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). The league includes teams in Quebec ...

(QMJHL). The team is based in

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 ...

, Quebec, 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 (CHL), a consortium of three Junior ice hockey, major junior ice hockey leagues operating in Canada and parts of the United States. It is a four-team round-robin tou ...

, failing to advance past the round-robin stage on each occasion. The Sags also participated in the 1997 Memorial Cup, as the host Hull Olympiques 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 * Frederic Allard * Joel Baillargeon * Ľuboš Bartečko * Marc Bergevin * Daniel Berthiaume * Nicolas Blanchard * Michel Bolduc * Pierre-Marc Bouchard * François Breault * Julien Brouillette *

Paul Brousseau Paul M. Brousseau (born September 18, 1973) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward. He played for the Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Florida Panthers in the NHL. Playing career Brousseau was selected in the second r ...

* Marc Bureau *

Guy Carbonneau Joseph Harry Guy Carbonneau (born March 18, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player, coach and executive in the National Hockey League. He was also the president of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Chicoutimi Saguenéen ...

* Stéphane Charbonneau * Denis Chassé * Alain Côté * Patrick Coulombe * Glen Cressman * Louis Crevier * Laurent Dauphin * Gilbert Delorme * Marc Denis * Nicolas Deschamps *

David Desharnais David Kevin Denis Desharnais (born September 14, 1986) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), centre. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers and New York Rangers. He al ...

* Gord Donnelly * Daniel Doré * Jeff Drouin-Deslauriers * Luc Dufour * Éric Fichaud * Marc Fortier * Éric Gélinas * Christopher Gibson * David Gosselin * Denis Hamel * Gilles Hamel * Alan Haworth * Yves Héroux * Charles Hudon * Chris Langevin * Hendrix Lapierre * Steve Larouche * Raphaël Lavoie *

Alain Lemieux Alain Lemieux (born May 24, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the St. Louis Blues, Quebec Nordiques, and Pittsburgh Penguins. He is also the older brother of NHL great ...

* Normand Léveillé * Daniel Marois * Stéphane Morin * Alain Nasreddine * Jean-Gabriel Pageau * Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau * Félix Potvin * Daniel Poulin * Yves Preston * Jean-Marc Richard * Stéphane Richer * Antoine Roussel * André Roy * Nicolas Roy * Stéphane Roy * German Rubtsov * Lukáš Sedlák * Louis Sleigher * Sam St. Laurent * Radoslav Suchý * Bob Sullivan * Jimmy Waite

Retired numbers

* 14 – Alain Côté * 15 –

* 16 – Normand Leveille * 18 –

Sylvain Locas Sylvain Locas (born February 17, 1958, in Chicoutimi, Quebec) is a former professional ice hockey Centre (ice hockey), centre. Prior to turning professional Locas played four seasons (1974–78) in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, QMJHL wi ...

* 20 – Marc Fortier * 21 –

* 29 – Félix Potvin

References

External links

Official site
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