Press Release
The Canadian Hockey League in association with the Quebec Major Junior
Hockey League today announced the coaching staff for Team QMJHL that
will compete in the first two games of the 2012 SUBWAY® Super Series.
André
Tourigny, Head Coach and General Manager of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies,
will work behind the bench for both Team QMJHL games that include
contests on Monday November 5 in Blainville-Boisbriand and Wednesday
November 7 in Val-d’Or. Joining Tourigny behind the bench in Games 1
and 2 as Assistant Coach will be Drummondville Voltigeurs Head Coach
Mario Duhamel. Jean-Francois Houle of the host Armada will also be
serving as an Assistant Coach in Blainville-Boisbriand for Game 1, while
Mario Durocher of the host Foreurs will serve as Assistant Coach in
Game 2 in Val-d’Or.
The SUBWAY® Super Series features regional
teams of CHL All-Stars competing against the Russian National Junior
Team in a six-game event serving as an integral part of the
identification process for Team Canada prior to the IIHF World Junior
Hockey Championship. Last season the CHL prevailed with their eighth
series win in nine years of this event with a 3-2-0-1 record and later
captured bronze at the 2012 World Junior Championship in Calgary and
Edmonton, AB.
Tourigny, who is now in his tenth season with the
Huskies, is also a member of the coaching staff for Canada’s National
Junior Team where he will be an Assistant Coach at the 2013 IIHF World
Junior Championship to be played this season in Russia. This marks his
third time serving as Team QMJHL Head Coach and Team Canada Assistant
following back-to-back events in 2009-10 and 2010-11. Tourigny was
named QMJHL Coach of the Year in 2005-06.
Duhamel, now in his
fourth season with the Voltigeurs, is also an Assistant Coach with
Canada’s National Junior Team this season. He participated in the 2010
SUBWAY® Super Series alongside Tourigny when the event was hosted in
Drummondville. Duhamel also won gold as an Assistant Coach with
Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 Team at the 2011 Memorial of Ivan
Hlinka.
Houle is in the midst of his second season behind the
bench for the Armada after serving the previous two years as Head Coach
of the Lewiston MAINEiacs. Durocher is currently in his eleventh QMJHL
season but working his first with the Foreurs as an Assistant Coach. He
also served as an Assistant Coach for this event in 2008 during his
tenure with the host Cape Breton Screaming Eagles.
The 2012 SUBWAY® Super Series is supported by CHL associate sponsors, Bank of Montreal, Old Dutch, and Post.
All games will be broadcast nationally on Sportsnet with the two QMJHL games shown on TVA Sports.
(Nathan can be reached at nathanfournier@mainehockeyjournal.com)
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
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