Halifax Mooseheads

Halifax Mooseheads
City	Halifax, Nova Scotia
League	Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
Division	Maritimes division
Founded	1994
Home arena	Scotiabank Centre
Colours	Green, White, Red, Black
General manager	Cam Russell
Head coach	Dominique Ducharme
Championships	2013 MasterCard Memorial Cup Champions
Website www.halifaxmooseheads.ca

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 – 2011–12 to present

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

Players

NHL Alumni

• Bolded Players are NHL Active
• Italicized Players are actively playing, but no longer in the NHL.
• Regular season stats presented are up to, but not including the 2015–16 NHL season

Skaters

Name	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM	+/-	Stanley Cups
Ramzi Abid	68	14	16	30	78	-11	0
Andrew Bodnarchuk	5	0	0	0	2	-2	0
David Brine	9	0	1	1	4	-1	0
Marc Chouinard	320	27	41	78	123	-9	0
Joe DiPenta	174	6	17	23	110	15	1
Jonathan Drouin	70	4	28	32	34	3	0
Benoit Dusablon	3	0	0	0	2	-1	0
Nikolaj Ehlers	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ryan Flinn	31	1	0	1	84	0	0
Éric Houde	30	2	3	5	4	-4	0
Milan Jurcina	430	22	59	81	280	-28	0
Jason King	59	12	11	23	8	-3	0
Nathan MacKinnon	146	38	63	101	60	14	0
Brad Marchand	377	116	112	228	344	117	1
Ladislav Nagy	435	115	196	311	358	35	0
Alexandre Picard	253	19	50	69	86	-31	0
Brandon Reid	13	2	4	6	0	4	0
Jody Shelley	637	18	36	54	1538	-35	0
Alex Tanguay	1018	275	553	828	495	155	1
Jakub Voráček	531	124	248	372	263	17	0
Petr Vrana	16	1	0	1	2	-4	0

Goaltenders

Name	GP	W	SO	GAA	SV%	Stanley Cups
Frédéric Cassivi	13	3	0	3.64	0.892	0
Jeremy Duchesne	1	0	0	3.59	0.750	0
Jean-Sébastien Giguère	597	262	38	2.53	0.913	1
Pascal Leclaire	173	61	10	2.89	0.904	0
Joey MacDonald	133	44	2	3.00	0.902	0

Retired numbers

• 18 Alex Tanguay
• 25 Jody Shelley
• 47 Jean-Sébastien Giguère
• HON Pat Connolly

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
• 1999–2000 – Ramzi Abid – 137 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 Voracek – 86 pts
• 2007–08 – Jakub Voracek – 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

Current roster

#	Nat.	Player	Pos.	DOB	From	NHL Draft
1		Éric Brassard	G	1995-05-05	Longueuil, QC	Undrafted
2		Cooper Jones	D	1998-06-09	Bridgewater MA, USA	Eligible 2017
3		Walter Flower	D	1999-05-07	Lunenburg, NS	Eligible 2017
4		Domenico Argento	D	1998-02-02	Montreal, QC	Eligible 2016
5		Cavan Fitzgerald	D	1996-08-23	Boston MA, USA	Undrafted
9		Jean-Sébastien Taillefer	D	1997-02-25	Les Côteaux, QC	Undrafted
11		Morgan Nauss	D	1998-04-20	Hammonds Plains, NS	Eligible 2016
12		Danny Moynihan	C	1995-12-08	Boston, MA, USA	Undrafted
16		Vincent Watt	LW	1996-02-27	Ormstown, QC	Undrafted
17		Brett Crossley	C	1998-01-03	Dartmouth NS	Eligible 2016
21		Arnaud Durandeau	LW	1999-01-14	Beaconsfield, QC	Eligible 2017
26		Taylor Ford	D	1997-05-14	LaSalle, QC	Undrafted
28		Dominik Blain-Dupuis	C	1998-04-08	Gatineau, QC	Eligible 2016
32		Andrew Shewfelt	RW	1996-06-01	Halifax, NS	Undrafted
34		Kelly Bent	LW	1995-02-02	Halifax, NS	Undrafted
40		Kevin Resop	G	1997-04-03	St. Petersburg FL, USA	Undrafted
41		Maxime Fortier	RW	1997-12-15	Montréal, QC	Eligible 2016
51		Barrett Dachyshyn	C	1998-10-05	Halifax, NS	Eligible 2016
53		Ilya Putinstev	RW	1998-01-08	Moscow, RUS	Eligible 2016
61		Joel Bishop	C	1999-05-07	St. John's, NL	Eligible 2017
71		Connor Moynihan	LW	1997-07-20	Boston, MA, USA	Undrafted
81		Cody Donaghey	D	1996-05-10	St. John's, NL	Undrafted
89		Otto Somppi	C	1998-01-12	Helsinki, FIN	Eligible 2016
96		Timo Meier	RW	1996-10-08	Herisau, Switzerland	San Jose Sharks 2015

Roster as of 1 November, 2015

Yearly results

Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss

Season	Games	Won	Lost	Tied	OTL	SL	Points	Pct %	Goals for	Goals against	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
1999–2000	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	-	6	2	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	0.191	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

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  Halifax Mooseheads hockey game at the Scotiabank Centre

External links

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