3L de Rivière-du-Loup or the Rivière-du-Loup 3L is a professional

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey in North America) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an Ice rink, ice skating rink with Ice hockey rink, lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. Tw ...

team in the

Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey The Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH, ''"North American Hockey League"'') is a semi-Professional sports league organization, professional ice hockey league based in the Canadian province of Quebec. Teams in the LNAH compete for the Vertdu ...

(LNAH) based in

Rivière-du-Loup Rivière-du-Loup (; 2021 population 20,118) is a small city (Quebec), city on the south shore of the Saint Lawrence River in Quebec. The city is the seat for the Rivière-du-Loup Regional County Municipality and the Judicial districts of Quebec ...

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. The team was founded in 2004 and first played in the LNAH in the 2008–09 season.

History

From 2004 to 2010, the team was known as the Rivière-du-Loup CIMT, named after the

CIMT-DT CIMT-DT (channel 9) is a television station in Rivière-du-Loup, Quebec, Canada, affiliated with the French-language network TVA. Owned by Télé Inter-Rives, it is part of a twinstick with Noovo affiliate CFTF-DT (channel 29). The two sta ...

, the local TVA affiliate that sponsored the team. The city of Rivière-du-Loup earlier in the decade had teams in the

Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League Quebec is Canada's largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, New Brunswick to the southeast and a coastal border ...

, Quebec Senior Major Hockey League and Quebec Senior Central Hockey League.

References

Ice hockey teams in Quebec Sport in Rivière-du-Loup Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey teams 2004 establishments in Quebec Ice hockey clubs established in 2004 {{Canada-icehockey-team-stub