The Moncton Coliseum ( French : Colisée de Moncton ) is an event venue and former ice hockey arena in Moncton , New Brunswick , Canada. Atlantic Canada 's largest trade show facility, the Coliseum has over 125,000 square feet (11,600 m) of exhibition space and a drawing power of 1.4 million people within a 2½ hour drive.
13-820: The adjoining Moncton Arena complex constitutes the largest trade show facility in Atlantic Canada. It was the former home to the QMJHL 's Moncton Wildcats and the National Basketball League of Canada 's Moncton Magic . It was also the former home of the AHL 's New Brunswick Hawks ( Toronto Maple Leafs and Chicago Blackhawks farm team, 1978–82), Alpines ( Edmonton Oilers , 1982–84), Moncton Golden Flames ( Calgary Flames and Boston Bruins , 1984–87) & Moncton Hawks ( Winnipeg Jets , 1987–94). The arena has hosted several large events, including
26-644: A new logo. The change recognized the league's expansion into the Maritime provinces , whose teams had been a part of the QMJHL for almost 30 years. This is a list of Canadian Hockey League career and single season records accomplished by QMJHL players. Current teams are shown in blue. Gold stars denote Gilles-Courteau Trophy (League championship) winners. This is a complete list of team histories since 1969. 1991–1994; 2008–2011 The Memorial Cup has been captured fifteen times by ten different QMJHL teams since
39-550: A rapid and offensive style of hockey. Former QMJHL players hold many of the Canadian Hockey League's career and single season offensive records . Hockey Hall of Fame alumni of the QMJHL include Mario Lemieux , Guy Lafleur , Ray Bourque , Pat LaFontaine , Mike Bossy , Denis Savard , Michel Goulet , Luc Robitaille , and goaltenders Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur . The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League
52-522: The 2006 Memorial Cup , the CIS University Cup in 2007 and 2008 and the 2009 Ford World Men's Curling Championship . NHL pre-season hockey games are routinely held at the facility every year. The New York Islanders pre-season hockey camp is at the facility. The arena has hosted concerts by many famous artists, spanning many different genres. City Council voted 8–3 to build the new Moncton Events Centre downtown. This arena, now known as
65-742: The Atlantic Canada region along with a surge in players coming out of the New England area: the QMJHL has territorial rights to draft and recruit players from New England as part of an agreement where players from the United States can be drafted by the CHL league that is in a similar geographic area. In December 2023, the QMJHL changed its name to the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League and released
78-645: The Avenir Centre , was completed in 2018 and the Wildcats and Magic moved in for the 2018–19 season. Quebec Major Junior Hockey League The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League ( QMJHL ; French : Ligue de hockey junior Maritimes Québec , LHJMQ ) is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues that constitute the Canadian Hockey League (CHL). Officially the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League until 2023,
91-766: The Granby Prédateurs , the Hull Olympiques , Halifax Mooseheads , Rouyn-Noranda Huskies , Rimouski Océanic , and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan each winning once, the Quebec Remparts winning three times(once in their first edition 1969–1985, and twice in their second edition 1997–present) and the Cornwall Royals winning three times. Starting in 1994, the QMJHL began to expand further east, outside of Quebec. The "Q" filled
104-657: The MMJHL. The eight teams from the QJHL were the Drummondville Rangers , Quebec Remparts , Saint-Jérôme Alouettes , Shawinigan Bruins , Sherbrooke Castors , Sorel Éperviers , Trois-Rivières Ducs and the Verdun Maple Leafs . Most of the teams were within a few hours' drive of Montreal . From the first season in 1969–70, only Shawinigan remains in the same city with an uninterrupted history, although
117-597: The league includes teams in Quebec and the Maritime provinces of Nova Scotia , New Brunswick , and Prince Edward Island . The Gilles-Courteau Trophy is the championship trophy of the league. The QMJHL champion then goes on to compete in the Memorial Cup against the Ontario Hockey League (OHL) and Western Hockey League (WHL) champions, and the CHL host team. The QMJHL had traditionally adopted
130-742: The team and players into the QMJHL, renaming themselves the Montreal Bleu Blanc Rouge in the process. The OHA then reactivated the suspended franchise for the 1973–74 season in Kingston, Ontario , under new ownership and with new players, calling the team the Kingston Canadians . QMJHL teams have won the Memorial Cup twelve times since 1969, with the Shawinigan Cataractes , Saint John Sea Dogs ,
143-802: The team's name has changed to the Cataractes . In 1972 the QMJHL had been in operation for three years, and wanted a team in the province's largest city. It threatened a lawsuit to force the Montreal Junior Canadiens of the Ontario Hockey Association into the Quebec-based league. Over the summer of 1972, the OHA granted the Junior Habs a "one-year suspension" of operations, while team ownership transferred
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#1732780658584156-543: The void in Atlantic Canada after the exodus of American Hockey League franchises, when the AHL had a strong presence in the 1980s and 1990s; all of the Maritime Division cities save for Bathurst, New Brunswick are former homes of AHL franchises. To date, Fredericton, New Brunswick is the lone former AHL market that has not established a QMJHL franchise. In recent seasons, the QMJHL has been scouting players from
169-701: Was founded in 1969 , through the merger of the best teams from the existing Quebec Junior Hockey League and the Metropolitan Montreal Junior Hockey League , declaring themselves a "major junior" league. Of the original eleven QMJHL teams, eight came from the QJHL, two from the MMJHL, and the Cornwall Royals , from Cornwall, Ontario , near the Quebec border, who transferred from the Central Junior A Hockey League . The Rosemont National and Laval Saints transferred from
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