The Trois-Rivières Draveurs ("Raftmen") were 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 playing in the

Quebec Major 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). They played home games at the Colisée de Trois-Rivières, in

Trois-Rivières Trois-Rivières (, ; ) is a city in the Mauricie administrative region of Quebec, Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Saint-Maurice River, Saint-Maurice and Saint Lawrence River, Saint Lawrence rivers, on the north shore of the Sain ...

, Quebec. The team was originally known as the Trois-Rivières Ducs ("Dukes") and were a founding member of the QMJHL in 1969. They were renamed the Draveurs in

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History

The Draveurs finished first place in the QMJHL in 1977–78 with 101 points, and again in 1978–79 with 122 points. Those two seasons, Trois-Rivières won consecutive President's Cups. The Draveurs were also league finalists in 1980–81, 1981–82, and 1991–92, during the final season in Trois-Rivières. During the 1991–92 season, Manon Rhéaume was a goaltender for the Draveurs and became the first female to play in the

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. The team moved to

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( , ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François River, Saint-François and Magog River, Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territ ...

, in

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, where they were renamed the Sherbrooke Faucons, and later, the Sherbrooke Castors. They moved again in 2003 to become the Lewiston Maineiacs only to fold in 2011.

Notable coaches

* Jean Bégin * Michel Bergeron * Alain Vigneault

Notable players

* Luc Tardif (later president of the International Ice Hockey Federation)

NHL alumni

List of Trois-Rivières players who also played in the

National Hockey League The National Hockey League (NHL; , ''LNH'') is a professional ice hockey league in North America composed of 32 teams25 in the United States and 7 in Canada. The NHL is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Cana ...

(NHL). * Pierre Aubry * Joel Baillargeon *

Ray Bourque Raymond Jean Bourque (born December 28, 1960) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey player. He holds records for most career goals, assists, and points by a defenceman in the National Hockey League (NHL). He won the James Norris Memorial ...

* Francois Breault *

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 ...

* Eric Charron * Enrico Ciccone * Jacques Cloutier * Roland Cloutier * Alain Daigle * Richard David * Martin Desjardins * André Doré * Donald Dufresne *

Benoit Gosselin Benoit Gosselin (born July 19, 1957) is a Canadian retired professional ice hockey left wing. He played seven games in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers during the 1977–78 season. He spent the rest of his career, whic ...

* Gilles Hamel * Denis Herron * Jean-François Labbé * Pierre Lacroix * Claude Lapointe * Steve Larouche *

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 ...

* Claude Lemieux * Eric Messier *

Bob Mongrain Robert Julien Mongrain (born August 31, 1959) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played in the National Hockey League with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings between 1979 and 1986. The rest of his career, which lasted f ...

* Yanic Perreault * Michel Picard * Alain Raymond * Pascal Rheaume *

Normand Rochefort Normand Rochefort (born January 28, 1961) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman. Biography Rochefort was born in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. As a youth, he played in the 1974 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a mi ...

* Dominic Roussel * Yves Sarault * Jean-François Sauvé * Martin St. Amour * Christian Tanguay * Jocelyn Thibault * Brent Tremblay * Pascal Trepanier * Claude Verret * Alain Vigneault

References

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