Halifax Mooseheads

Halifax Mooseheads
	Halifax Mooseheads
City	Halifax, Nova Scotia
League	Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Division	Maritimes
Founded	1994
Home arena	Scotiabank Centre
Colors	Green, White, Red, Black ;
General manager	Cam Russell
Head coach	Jim Midgley
Championships	2013 President's Cup Champions ; 2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup Champions
	Website; www.halifaxmooseheads.ca

12-13HalMoo — 2013 Memorial Cup Champions

The Halifax Mooseheads are a Canadian major junior ice hockey club in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) based out of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The team was founded in 1994 and began play in the Dilio Division of the QMJHL from the 1994–95 season. They have appeared in the President's Cup Finals three times, winning in 2013. The other two appearances were in 2003 and 2005. They hosted the Memorial Cup tournament in 2000, and won the Memorial Cup in 2013. The team plays their home games in the Scotiabank Centre with a capacity of 10,595 seats.

History

The team was first envisioned by Moosehead Brewery Vice President of Sales and Marketing Harold MacKay in 1993, who believed that Halifax could host a QMJHL team. The QMJHL had teams exclusively located in the Province of Quebec, so adding a team in the Maritimes would add to travel costs for the other teams. MacKay was confident that the Halifax franchise could be successful and received financial backing from Moosehead Breweries President and CEO Derek Oland. After careful negotiations by MacKay, the QMJHL expanded to the city of Halifax for the 1994–95 season.In their first year, in 1994, the Mooseheads finished in sixth place and lost in the first round of the playoffs to the Beauport Harfangs, taking the first-placed team to seven games. The Mooseheads and MacKay are considered pioneers for the QMJHL; following the success of the Mooseheads, the League began accepting franchises through relocation or expansion into Atlantic Canada, which lost most of its American Hockey League (AHL) franchises in the mid-1990s. The QMJHL has franchises in Sydney, Nova Scotia, Moncton, New Brunswick, Bathurst, New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick and Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island (the Bathurst, Charlottetown and Sydney franchises were relocations from Quebec). While the League has had success with most of its Atlantic franchises, only the St. John's Fog Devils failed to garner the interest and following and moved to Verdun, Quebec, after the 2007–08 season, which was only their third season in existence. In 2013, the Mooseheads won the President's Cup as champions of the QMJHL. The Mooseheads then went on to compete in the Memorial Cup final in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where they faced and defeated the Portland Winterhawks on May 26, 2013 by a score of 6–4, with Nathan MacKinnon recording a hat-trick into an empty net with only 22 seconds left in the game.

Coaches

Clément Jodoin – 1994–95 to 1996–97
Shawn MacKenzie – 1996–97*, 2000–01 to 2004–05
Danny Grant – 1997–98
Robert Mongrain – 1998–99 to 1999–2000
Cam Russell – 2000–01*
Chris Donnelly – 2003–04*
Marcel Patenaude – 2004–05*
Al MacAdam – 2004–05 to 2005–06
Cam Russell – 2006–10
Bobby Smith – 2010 to 2011
Dominique Ducharme – 2011 to 2016
Andre Tourigny - 2016-Present

*interim (regular head coach fired, sick or suspended)

Players

NHL Alumni

Retired numbers

Top scorers

List of top scorers by season.

1994–95 - Brant Blackned - 97 pts
1995–96 - Éric Houde - 88 pts
1996–97 - François Sasseville - 73 pts
1997–98 - Alex Tanguay - 85 pts
1998–99 - Ladislav Nagy - 126 pts
1999–00 - Ramzi Abid - 158 pts
2000–01 - Jason King - 89 pts
2001–02 - Jason King - 99 pts
2002–03 - Stuart MacRae - 96 pts
2003–04 - Daniel Sparre - 68 pts
2004–05 - Daniel Sparre - 68 pts
2005–06 - David Brine - 100 pts
2006–07 - Jakub Voráček - 86 pts
2007–08 - Jakub Voráček - 101 pts
2008-09 - Tomas Knotek and Yuri Cheremetiev, tie - 49 pts
2009–10 – Tomas Knotek – 59 pts
2010–11 – Carl Gélinas – 54 pts
2011–12 – Nathan MacKinnon – 78 pts
2012–13 - Jonathan Drouin – 105 pts
2013–14 - Jonathan Drouin – 108 pts
2014–15 - Nikolaj Ehlers – 101 pts
2015-16 - Maxime Fortier - 77 pts

Yearly results

Season	Games	W	L	T	OL	SL	Pts	Pct %	GA	GA	Standing
1994–95	72	24	42	6	-	-	54	0.375	257	317	6th in Dilio
1995–96	70	32	36	2	-	-	66	0.471	258	262	4th in Dilio
1996–97	70	37	29	4	-	-	78	0.557	267	255	3rd in Dilio
1997–98	70	24	41	5	-	-	53	0.379	263	316	5th in Dilio
1998–99	70	46	20	4	-	-	96	0.686	298	206	2nd in Dilio
1999–00	72	41	20	6	5	-	93	0.611	316	259	2nd in Maritimes
2000–01	72	32	24	10	6	-	80	0.514	235	253	1st in Maritimes
2001–02	72	39	21	9	3	-	90	0.604	267	197	2nd in Maritimes
2002–03	72	44	15	10	3	-	101	0.681	289	206	1st in Maritimes
2003–04	70	17	43	7	3	-	44	0.293	194	274	4th in Atlantic
2004–05	70	42	16	10	2	-	96	0.671	242	172	1st in Atlantic
2005–06	70	35	33	-	1	1	72	0.507	246	258	5th in East
2006–07	70	32	31	-	3	4	71	0.457	269	287	6th in East
2007–08	70	42	23	-	0	5	89	0.600	278	241	1st in East
2008–09	68	19	41	-	3	5	46	0.279	193	290	6th in Atlantic
2009-10	68	13	48	-	3	4	33	0.243	171	288	6th in Atlantic
2010–11	68	20	43	-	2	3	45	0.331	186	262	5th in Maritimes Division
2011–12	68	39	22	-	2	5	85	0.625	250	238	2nd in Maritimes Division
2012–13	68	58	6	-	3	1	120	0.882	347	176	1st in Telus Maritimes Division President's Cup champion Memorial Cup champion
2013–14	68	47	18	-	-	3	97	0.713	292	182	1st in Telus Maritimes Division
2014-15	68	32	30	-	4	2	70	0.515	227	242	4th in Maritimes Division
2015-16	68	21	39	-	7	1	50	0.345	193	277	6th in Maritimes Division
2016-17	68	27	35	-	3	3	60	0.441	229	259	5th in Maritimes Division

External links

Mooseheads official web site
The Q Files Metro Halifax's Mooseheads Blog
QMJHL Arena Guide profile
QMJHL official web site

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