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 The Centre Georges-Vézina, formerly the Colisée de Chicoutimi, is a 4,724 capacity (3,683 seated) multi-purpose arena in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. The arena was built in 1949 and features an Olympic-sized ice pad of 200' X 100'. It is named ...

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

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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 The 1997 Memorial Cup occurred May 10–18 at the Robert Guertin Centre in Hull, Quebec. It was the 79th annual Memorial Cup competition and determined the major junior ice hockey champion of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). Participatin ...

, 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

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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 ...

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References

External links

Official site
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