Gatineau Olympiques
The Olympiques de Gatineau ( Gatineau Olympiques English ) is a Canadian hockey team in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec with home in Gatineau. The team was founded in 1973, at that time as the Hull Festivals, Hull Olympiques and later as wearing their home games at the Centre Robert - Guertin from.
History
The team was founded in the 1960s under the name Castors de Hull as a member of the Central Junior A Hockey League. Later, the name was changed Hawks de Hull. After the club relegated to the second power stage of the Central Junior A Hockey League, succeeded her on 24 April 1973, the license for a franchise in the Ligue de hockey junior majeur du Québec to get granted. As early as 1970 the name change was done ad de Hull. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, the club was named Olympiques de Hull. In 2002, the Canadian city of Hull was incorporated into Gatineau and so became of the Hull Olympiques Gatineau Olympiques the.
Since the mid- 1980s, the Olympiques are among the most successful franchises of LHJMQ. They were a total of seven times the LHJMQ Championship, the Coupe du Président win. This was most recently in 2008. 's Biggest success of Olympiques was the victory in the Memorial Cup, the championship of the Canadian Hockey League, in the season 1996 / 97th
Logos
Logo 1987-1995
Logo 1995-2002
Logo in the season 2002/ 03
Logo 2003-2011
News Logo since 2011
Well-known former players
- Gregor Baumgartner
- Martin Biron
- Sébastien Bordeleau
- Benoît Brunet
- Jim Campbell
- Benoit Doucet
- Christian Dubé
- Jiří Fischer
- Martin Gélinas
- Claude Giroux
- Aleš Hemský
- Doug Honegger
- Stephane Richer
- Luc Robitaille
- Jeremy Roenick
- Michael Ryder
- José Théodore
- Pascal Trepanier
- Sylvain Turgeon