2008–09 QMJHL season

2008–09 QMJHL season
League	Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Duration	Preseason Regular season 2008-09-11–2009-03-15 Playoffs 2009-03-20–2009-05-12
Champions	Drummondville Voltigeurs
Number of teams	18
Commissioner	Gilles Courteau
QMJHL seasons
← 2007–08	2009–10 →

2008–09 CHL season
League	Canadian Hockey League
Duration	OHL 2008-09-17–2009-03-15 QMJHL 2008-09-11–2009-03-15 WHL 2008-09-18–2009-03-15
Number of teams	60
TV partner(s)	Réseau des sports Rogers Sportsnet Rogers TV Shaw TV

The 2008–09 QMJHL season was the 40th season of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The regular season began on September 11, 2008, and ended on March 15, 2009. The 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge series, featuring Team QMJHL versus the Russian Selects, took place on November 17 and 19, 2008. Eighteen teams played 68 games each. The Drummondville Voltigeurs ,who finished first overall in the regular season went on to capture their first President's Cup vs. Shawinigan Cataractes in an intense series they won 4-3.

QMJHL 40th anniversary logo

Notable dates

Offseason

• June 20–21, 2008—27 QMJHL players were selected in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

Regular season

• November 17, 2008–Team QMJHL defeats the Russian Selects 5–3 in Game 1 of the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge held in Sydney, Nova Scotia.
• November 19, 2008–Team QMJHL defeated by Russian Selects 4–3 in Game 2 of the ADT Canada-Russia Challenge held in Saint John, New Brunswick

Playoffs

Standings

Division Standings

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses ; SL - Shootout losses ; GF = Goals for ; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points

Division Telus Centre	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	GF	GA	Pts
Drummondville Voltigeurs z	68	54	10	0	4	345	189	112
Shawinigan Cataractes x	68	51	14	3	0	308	183	105
Victoriaville Tigres x	68	32	32	2	2	219	249	68
Lewiston MAINEiacs x	68	22	43	1	2	190	286	47

Division Telus Est	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	GF	GA	Pts
Québec Remparts z	68	49	16	0	3	282	184	101
Rimouski Océanic x	68	44	23	1	0	267	223	89
Chicoutimi Saguenéens x	68	24	32	4	8	215	256	60
Baie-Comeau Drakkar x	68	22	37	7	2	206	297	53

Division Atlantique	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	GF	GA	Pts
Moncton Wildcats z	68	48	14	2	4	236	149	102
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles x	68	46	18	3	1	252	201	96
Saint John Sea Dogs x	68	34	30	2	2	222	232	72
P.E.I. Rocket x	68	26	32	5	5	229	243	62
Acadie-Bathurst Titan x	68	20	35	7	6	187	256	53
Halifax Mooseheads	68	19	41	3	5	193	290	46

Division Telus Ouest	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	GF	GA	Pts
Gatineau Olympiques z	68	38	25	2	3	232	232	81
Montreal Junior Hockey Club x	68	34	30	2	2	211	202	72
Rouyn-Noranda Huskies x	68	30	30	5	3	210	245	68
Val-d'Or Foreurs	68	19	41	3	5	206	293	46

Overall Standing

• determines standings for the second round of the playoffs.

Note: GP = Games played; W = Wins; L = Losses; OTL = Overtime losses ; SL - Shootout losses ; GF = Goals for ; GA = Goals against; Pts = Points

Rank	Team	GP	W	L	OTL	SL	GF	GA	Pts
1	Drummondville Voltigeurs z	68	54	10	0	4	345	189	112
2	Moncton Wildcats z	68	48	14	2	4	236	149	102
3	Québec Remparts z	68	49	16	0	3	282	184	101
4	Gatineau Olympiques z	68	38	25	2	3	232	232	81
5	Shawinigan Cataractes x	68	51	14	3	0	308	183	105
6	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles x	68	46	18	3	1	252	201	96
7	Rimouski Océanic x	68	44	23	1	0	267	223	89
8	Montreal Junior Hockey Club x	68	34	30	2	2	211	202	72
9	Saint John Sea Dogs x	68	34	30	2	2	222	232	72
10	Victoriaville Tigres x	68	32	32	2	2	219	249	68
11	Rouyn-Noranda Huskies x	68	30	30	5	3	210	245	68
12	P.E.I. Rocket x	68	26	32	5	5	229	243	62
13	Chicoutimi Saguenéens x	68	24	32	4	8	215	256	60
14	Baie-Comeau Drakkar x	68	22	37	7	2	206	297	53
15	Acadie-Bathurst Titan x	68	20	35	7	6	187	256	53
16	Lewiston MAINEiacs x	68	22	43	1	2	190	286	47
17	Val-d'Or Foreurs	68	19	41	3	5	206	293	46
18	Halifax Mooseheads	68	19	41	3	5	193	290	46

x - team clinched QMJHL Playoff spot

z - team has cliched division

Scoring leaders

Note: GP = Games played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; PIM = Penalty minutes

Player	Team	GP	G	A	Pts	PIM
Yannick Riendeau	Drummondville Voltigeurs	64	58	68	126	31
Dany Masse	Drummondville Voltigeurs	68	44	66	110	52
Cedric Lalonde-McNicoll	Shawinigan Cataractes	65	38	66	104	22
Paul Byron	Gatineau Olympiques	65	33	66	99	32
Mike Hoffman	Drummondville Voltigeurs	62	52	42	94	86
Nicholas Petersen	Shawinigan Cataractes	68	37	53	90	42
Felix Petit	Baie-Comeau Drakkar	68	25	65	90	28
Matthew Pistilli	Shawinigan Cataractes	63	45	41	86	37
Alexandre Quesnel	Gatineau Olympiques	63	37	45	82	88
Robert Slaney	Cape Breton Screaming Eagles	63	36	45	81	78

Leading goaltenders

Note: GP = Games played; Min = Minutes played; W = Wins; L = Losses; SOL = Shootout losses ; GA = Goals against; SO = Total shutouts; SV% = Save percentage; GAA = Goals against average

Player	Team	GP	Min	W	L	GA	SO	Sv%	GAA
Nicola Riopel	Moncton Wildcats	59	3487	43	15	117	5	.931	2.01
Charles Lavigne	Quebec Remparts	51	2839	34	13	112	6	.916	2.37
Gabriel Girard	Shawinigan Cataractes	30	1638	22	5	70	2	.895	2.57
Timo Pielmeier	Shawinigan Cataractes	43	2408	29	11	106	2	.914	2.64
Antoine Tardif	Drummondville Voltigeurs	43	2378	32	7	109	0	.893	2.75

Players

2008 NHL Entry Draft

In total, 27 QMJHL players were selected at the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

Trades

Date	Deal Made
January 8, 2009	To Shawinigan Cataractes Mathieu Bolduc	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens 1st round pick, 2011
January 8, 2009	To Montreal Juniors Philippe Fontaine	To Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 5th round pick, 2010
January 8, 2009	To Gatineau Olympiques Dave Nolin John Esposito	To Victoriaville Tigres Bradley MacDonald 2nd round pick, 2010
January 8, 2009	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan Artem Demkov	To Cape Breton Screaming Eagles 8th round pick, 2009
January 8, 2009	To Shawinigan Cataractes Nicolas Marcoux-Larocque	To Saint John Sea Dogs 5th round pick, 2009 (Halifax Mooseheads)
January 8, 2009	To Shawinigan Cataractes Maxime Macenauer	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Brad Yetman 4th round pick, 2009
January 8, 2009	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Francis Schanck	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 10th round pick, 2009
January 8, 2009	To PEI Rocket Jarrad Struthers	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 2nd round pick, 2009 (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies) 3rd round pick, 2009 (Acadie-Bathurst Titan)
January 8, 2009	To Halifax Mooseheads Andrew Smith	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens 8th round pick, 2009
January 8, 2009	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens Louis Leblanc Maxim Guérin Marc-André Carré	To Val-d'Or Foreurs 3rd round pick, 2009 9th round pick, 2009
January 8, 2009	To Moncton Wildcats Tomy Joly	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan Julien Tremblay 2nd round pick, 2009 (Victoriaville Tigres) 2nd round pick, 2010
January 8, 2009	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan Jérémie Blain	To Victoriaville Tigres Olivier Jannard 4th round pick, 2010 5th round pick, 2010
January 8, 2009	To Baie-Comeau Drakkar Anthony Taylor	To Montreal Juniors Félix-Antoine Poulin
January 8, 2009	To Saint John Sea Dogs Olivier Ouellet	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens 2nd round pick, 2009 (Shawinigan Cataractes)
January 7, 2009	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Keven Charland-Guérette	To Saint John Sea Dogs 3rd round pick, 2009 (Halifax Mooseheads)
January 7, 2009	To Baie-Comeau Drakkar Nathan Dunnett 7th round pick, 2009 (Rouyn-Noranda Huskies) 3rd round pick, 2010	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Marco Cousineau
January 7, 2009	To Gatineau Olympiques 3rd round pick, 2009	To Drummondville Voltigeurs 3rd round pick, 2010 (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
January 7, 2009	To Baie-Comeau Drakkar Jordan Bernier Charles Vouligny	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan 5th round pick, 2009 (Acadie-Bathurst Titan)
January 7, 2009	To Baie-Comeau Drakkar Francois Lacerte 4th round pick, 2009 (Lewiston MAINEiacs)	To Rimouski Océanic Maxime Ouimet
January 7, 2009	To Victoriaville Tigres Tyler Noseworthy	To Moncton Wildcats 6th round pick, 2010
January 7, 2009	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Michel Kowalew	To Montreal Juniors 10th round pick, 2009
January 6, 2009	To Saint John Sea Dogs Mathieu Gingras Simon Giroux 1st round pick, 2009 2nd round pick, 2010	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Christopher DiDomenico
January 5, 2009	To Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Brad Tesink	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan Olivier Dame-Malka
January 6, 2009	To Rimouski Océanic Marc-André Bourdon Matthew Dopud Justin MacNaughton	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 1st round pick, 2009 (Quebec Remparts) 2nd round pick, 2009 3rd round pick, 2009 (Quebec Remparts) 7th round pick, 2009 1st round pick, 2010 4th round pick, 2010
January 5, 2009	To Halifax Mooseheads Pascal Amyot 1st round pick, 2009 (EU)	To Saint John Sea Dogs 1st round pick, 2009 (EU) 4th round pick, 2010
January 5, 2009	To Shawinigan Cataractes Alex Grant 5th round pick, 2010	to Saint John Sea Dogs Danick Gauthier 2nd round pick, 2009 1st round pick, 2010
January 5, 2009	To Rimouski Océanic Jason Demers	To Victoriaville Tigres 8th round pick, 2009
January 5, 2009	To Quebec Remparts Alexandre Néron	To Rimouski Océanic 1st round pick, 2009 3rd round pick, 2009
January 2, 2009	To Gatineau Olympiques Alexei Dostoinov	To Saint John Sea Dogs 5th round pick, 2010
December 31, 2008	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens Drew Paris	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan 4th round pick, 2009 4th round pick, 2010
December 31, 2008	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Matthew Lachaine Jeremiah Coon-Come	To PEI Rocket Jason Legault Maxime Lévesque
December 31, 2008	To Shawinigan Cataractes Nicolas Deslongchamps 9th round pick, 2009	To Victoriaville Tigres Jean-Michel Fortier
December 30, 2008	To Moncton Wildcats Joe Dillon	To Val-d'Or Foreurs 12th round pick, 2009
December 30, 2008	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Mickael Audette	To Quebec Remparts 2nd round pick, 2009 (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
December 29, 2008	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Sasha Famin	To Moncton Wildcats Mitch Morgan 3rd round pick, 2009 1st round pick, 2010 (EU)
December 27, 2008	To Shawinigan Cataractes 4th round pick, 2009 (Shawinigan Cataractes)	To Lewiston MAINEicas 5th round pick, 2009
December 27, 2008	To Halifax Mooseheads Jan Stransky	To Gatineau Olympiques 5th round pick, 2010 (Chicoutimi Saguenées)
December 26, 2008	To Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Michael Ward Stephen Horyl	To Lewiston MAINEiacs Samuel Finn Murdock MacLellan 5th round pick, 2010
December 26, 2008	To Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Taylor MacDougall	To Montreal Juniors Jérémy Gouchie
December 23, 2008	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Gabriel Coté	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan 7th round pick, 2009 (Val-d'Or Foreurs)
December 23, 2008	To Rimouski Océanic Logan MacMillan	to Halifax Mooseheads Guillaume Pelletier 4th round pick, 2009 2nd round pick, 2010 2nd round pick, 2011 3rd round pick, 2011
December 22, 2008	To Saint John Sea Dogs Benjamin Lecomte	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies 6th round pick, 2009 (Rimouski Océanic)
December 22, 2008	To Lewiston MAINEiacs Nick Huard	To Victoriaville Tigres Pierre-Luc Pelletier
December 22, 2008	To PEI Rocket Joel Champagne Christopher Guay 6th round pick, 2010	To Chicoutimi Saguenéens Mathieu Tousignant 6th round pick, 2009 (Quebec Remparts)
December 22, 2008	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Marc-Antoine Dupuis	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan 8th round pick, 2009 (Acadie-Bathurst Titan)
December 20, 2008	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Raphael Neiderer	To PEI Rocket William Beaudoin
December 20, 2008	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan Danick Malouin	To PEI Rocket 3rd round pick, 2009
November 25, 2008	To Gatineau Olympiques Kyle Paige	To Saint John Sea Dogs 9th round pick, 2010
October 15, 2008	To Drummondville Voltigeurs Patrik Prokop	To Gatineau Olympiques 6th round pick, 2008 (Gatineau Olympiques) 3rd round pick, 2010
October 9, 2008	To Halifax Mooseheads Radek Vlasanek	To Acadie-Bathurst Titan 5th round pick, 2010
October 6, 2008	To Val-d'Or Foreurs Francois Gauthier 5th round pick, 2009	To Saint John Sea Dogs 1st round pick, 2009 (EU)
October 1, 2008	To Rouyn-Noranda Huskies Antoine Lafleur	To PEI Rocket 8th round pick (Drummondville Voltigeurs)
September 20, 2008	To Quebec Remparts Maxime Pomerleau	To Halifax Mooseheads 7th round pick, 2009

QMJHL Playoffs

Overview

Division quarterfinals

Division semifinals

Finals

QMJHL Championships

1C

Drummondville

4

4C

Lewiston

0

1C

Drummondville

4

2O

Montreal

0

2O

Montreal

4

3O

Rouyn-Noranda

2

1C

Drummondville

4

2E

Rimouski

0

1A

Moncton

4

4A

P.E.I.

1

1A

Moncton

1

2E

Rimouski

4

2E

Rimouski

4

3E

Chicoutimi

0

1C

Drummondville

4

2C

Shawinigan

3

1E

Quebec

4

4E

Baie-Comeau

1

1E

Quebec

4

2A

Cape Breton

3

2A

Cape Breton

4

3A

Saint John

0

1E

Quebec

1

2C

Shawinigan

4

1O

Gatineau

4

5A

Acadie-Bathurst

1

1O

Gatineau

1

2C

Shawinigan

4

2C

Shawinigan

4

3C

Victoriaville

0

Canada Russia Challenge

The ADT Canada Russia Challenge is a six game series featuring four teams: three from the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) versus Russia's National Junior hockey team. Within the Canadian Hockey League umbrella, one team from each of its three leagues — the Ontario Hockey League, Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, and Western Hockey League — compete in two games against the Russian junior team.

The 2008 ADT Canada Russia Challenge was held in six cities across Canada, with two cities for each league within the Canadian Hockey League. The series began on November 17, 2008, and concluded on November 27, 2008. All six games were televised nationally on Rogers Sportsnet, along with RDS televising both games from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Results

In the first game of the two part series between Team QMJHL and the Russian Selects, Team QMJHL scored five goals en route to a 5–3 win in front of 4,378 fans at Centre 200 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Kmitri Kugryshev of the Russian Selects and goaltender Olivier Roy of Team QMJHL were named the ADT Players of the Game for their respective teams. The Russian Selects evened the ADT Canada Russia Challenge, winning the second game after having registered four goals in a 4–3 victory in front of a sellout crowd of 6,451 assembled at Harbour Station in Saint John, New Brunswick.

#	Date	Visitor	Score	Home	Attendance	Location	Recap
1	November 17, 2008	Russian Selects	3–5	Team QMJHL	4,378	Sydney, Nova Scotia	[1]
2	November 19, 2008	Russian Selects	4–3	Team QMJHL	6,451	Saint John, New Brunswick	[2]
3	November 20, 2008	Russian Selects	6–3	Team OHL	4,751	Guelph, Ontario	[3]
4	November 24, 2008	Russian Selects	2–3	Team OHL	3,145	St. Catharines, Ontario	[4]
5	November 26, 2008	Russian Selects	0–5	Team WHL	2,800	Swift Current, Saskatchewan	[5]
6	November 27, 2008	Russian Selects	1–2	Team WHL	2,749	Prince Albert, Saskatchewan	[6]

References

Shawinigan Falls Cataractes

External links

• Official QMJHL website
• Official CHL website
• Official website of the MasterCard Memorial Cup
• Official website of the Home Hardware Top Prospects Game
• Official website of the ADT Canada Russia Challenge