Five new members will be inducted into the Maritimes Quebec Junior Hockey League Hall of Fame this Wednesday evening at the Manulife Theatre in Brossard. The Journal gives you a brief portrait of their career.
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Patrice Bergeron in the Acadie-Bathurst Titan uniform.
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Patrice Bergeron
Center player
39 years old
He is originally from L’Ancienne-Lorette.
He holds a record with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan (2002-2003): 50 assists and 73 points for a rookie.
He holds the league record: six points in a playoff game for a rookie, tied with Mike Bossy and Jean-François Sauvé at the time.
He won the gold medal with Team Canada junior in 2003.
He won the gold medal at the Senior World Championships in 2004.
He was Olympic champion in 2010 and 2014.
His number 37 was retired by the Titan in 2011.
He was drafted in the second round, 45e in total, in 2003 by the Bruins.
He has 1040 points in 1294 points in the NHL (Boston).
He scored 25 shorthanded goals (including the playoffs).
He has a differential of +289 in the regular season.
He was Stanley Cup champion in 2011.
He won 58% of his faceoffs (eighth in NHL history).
He was a six-time winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy (defensive forward).
He won the King Clancy Trophy (leadership and social commitment) in 2013.
He won the Mark Messier Trophy (leadership) in 2021.
He retired in 2023 after 19 seasons on the Bettman Tour.
Alexandre Daigle with the Victoriaville Tigers in 1992.
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Alexandre Daigle
Right winger
49 years old
He is originally from Montreal.
At 15, he scored 50 goals with the Laval-Laurentides-Lanaudière Régents in midget AAA.
He was the first overall pick in the QMJHL draft by the Victoriaville Tigres in 1991.
He was Canada’s rookie of the year in 1992, with 110 points (35 goals, 75 assists) in 66 games.
He averaged 2.6 points per game in 1992-93 (137 points in 53 games).
His number 91 was retired by the Tigers in 2017.
He was selected first overall by the Ottawa Senators in 1993.
In his first NHL season, he had 51 points, including 20 goals, in 84 games.
He won two gold medals at the World Juniors, in 1993 and 1995.
He has 327 points in 616 NHL games (Ottawa, Pittsburgh and Minnesota).
He retired in 2010 after four campaigns in Switzerland.
Maxime Talbot won gold at the World Juniors in 2004
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Maxime Talbot
Center player
40 years old
He is originally from Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville.
He averaged one point per game with the Gaulois du Collège Antoine-Girouard in midget AAA (15 years old).
He was selected eighth overall by the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in 2000.
He had 381 points in 301 games over four seasons in the QMJHL, including 82 points in the playoffs, the second highest total in the history of the Hull/Gatineau Olympiques.
As captain, he led the Olympiques to two playoff championships in 2003 and 2004.
He was twice the recipient of the Guy-Lafleur Trophy (most valuable player of the series).
He was a two-time Memorial Cup finalist.
He had a record performance at the Olympiques with a six-point playoff game.
He won silver at the 2004 World Junior Championships.
He was an eighth-round pick, 234e in total, Penguins in 2002.
He scored the winning goal in the seventh and final game of the Stanley Cup Finals in 2009.
He has 204 points in 704 NHL games (Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Colorado and Boston).
He retired in 2019 after three seasons in Russia.
Reginald Savage played for the Victoriaville Tigres from 1987 to 1990.
QMJHL SCREENSHOT
Reginald Savage
Attacker
Originally from Montreal
He died in 2023 at the age of 53 from cancer.
He obtained 139 points in 42 games with the Riverains du Richelieu in midget AAA.
He holds the record for a rookie (17 years old) with the Victoriaville Tigres in 1987-1988: 68 goals and 122 points.
He had 40 consecutive games with at least one point in 1989, tied for seventh in the QMJHL with Guy Lafleur.
He was regular season champion with the Tigers in 1989-90.
He scored 375 points, including 207 goals, in 22 games in Victoriaville.
His number 77 was retired by the Tigers in 2011.
He was drafted in 15e position by the Washington Capitals in 1988.
He scored his first NHL goal on a penalty shot.
He had 12 points in 34 games with the Capitals and the Nordiques.
He retired in 2004–05 after 15 professional seasons in the minor leagues and Europe.
Gilles Courteau in 2003.
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Gilles Courteau
Builder
66 years old
He is originally from Trois-Rivières.
He worked for 47 years in the QMJHL, including 37 as president or commissioner.
Michel Bergeron hired him as statistician for the Trois-Rivières Draveurs in 1975.
He was the circuit’s chief statistician in 1977.
He was the youngest general manager in the league at 21, with the Quebec Remparts, in 1980-1981.
After a stay with the Nordiques, he returned to the QMJHL and went from administrative director to president on February 13, 1986, at the age of 28.
In 2001, his title changed to that of commissioner.
He resigned in March 2023.
Under his reign, the QMJHL grew from 10 to 18 teams, setting foot in the Maritimes in 1994, in Halifax.
He campaigned for the abolition of fighting.
He is one of the founders of the Alliance Sport-Études, a scholarship program, in 1986.
During his tenure, 7,677 players played in the QMJHL and 866 were drafted into the NHL, while 19 coaches and 24 referees reached the Bettman circuit.
The Courteau circuit has lifted the Memorial Cup 10 times.
The President’s Cup, awarded to the series champions, was renamed the Gilles-Courteau Trophy in 2022.
He was inducted into the Hockey Quebec Hall of Fame in 2016.
