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RECENT NEWS
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NSMMHL HOLDS EARLY BIRD TOURNEY THIS WEEK
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DARTMOUTH, NS, August 27, 2008 - The eight teams in the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League will gather this weekend August 30-September 1 at the Dartmouth Sportsplex for annual NSMMHL Early Bird Tournament, hosted by the Dartmouth Subways.
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PEI ROCKET SET TO OPEN TRAINING CAMP
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CHARLOTTETOWN, PEI, August 27, 2008 - Players are arriving in Charlottetown for the opening of the PEI Rocket's main training camp that begins this Friday, at the Charlottetown Civic Centre in preparation for to open its sixth season on P.E.I..
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WILDCATS OPEN TRAINING CAMP THURSDAY
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MONCTON, NB, August 27, 2008 - The Moncton Wildcats 2008 training camp is slated to open Thursday, August 28. Registration will begin at 6 p.m. at the Tim Hortons 4 Ice Centre. The first official on ice sessions will take place Friday.
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ONSLOW, NS BROTHERS OFF TO MAINEIACS CAMP
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TRURO, NS, August 27, 2008 – Growing up, P.J. and Travis Moore always hoped they would get the chance to skate onto the ice wearing the same uniform. The Lower Onslow, NS brothers finally got that chance last season when both cracked the Pictou County Weeks Major Midgets roster.
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SEA DOGS OPEN CAMP FRIDAY
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 26, 2008 - The Saint John Sea Dogs announced Tuesday the names of the 41 players that will be attending the team’s fourth annual Quebec Major Junior Hockey League training camp Friday.
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MOOSEHEADS TRADE BOUCHARD
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HALIFAX, NS, August 26, 2008 - Halifax Mooseheads traded 20-year-old forward David Bouchard to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, Halifax Mooseheads’ General Manager Marcel Patenaude announced Tuesday.
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FLYERS HOLDING REGISTRATION WEDNESDAY
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MONCTON, NB, August 26, 2008 - The Moncton Mark’s Work Wearhouse Flyers will hold a pre- training camp registration on Wednesday August 27, 2008 from 7:00pm – 9:00pm in the meeting room (the glass room) located on the second floor of the Tim Horton’s 4-Ice Centre.
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BIROUX JOINS THUNDER COACHING STAFF
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CORNWALL, PEI, August 26, 2008 - A former player and assistant coach of the UPEI Panthers, John Brioux, has agreed to join the coaching staff of the Cornwall ’Superior’ Thunder of the NB-PEI Midget Major Hockey League.
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CRUSHERS, LIONS COMPLETE TRADE
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HALIFAX, NS, August 25, 2008 - The Halifax Lions and Pictou County Weeks Crushers of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League have completed a trade that will allow two of the players involved, who were former Antigonish Bulldogs to continue their education at St. Francis Xavier University and continue to play junior A hockey.
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MITCHELL HARE IS OFF TO BE A STAR
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EXMOOR, NB, August 25, 2008 - Mitchell Hare is off to become a hockey star, a New England Star of the International Junior Hockey League, that is. It’s a long way from Exmoor, New Brunswick to Massachusetts but Hare says he is looking forward to the trip.
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MOOSEHEADS GET READY TO OPEN CAMP THURSDAY
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HALIFAX, NS, August 25, 2008 - Halifax Mooseheads will begin preparations for their 15th season in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League when 48 players descend on Cole Harbour Place Thursday (August 28) for the opening of the Mooseheads’ 2008 Training Camp.
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A DREAM COME TRUE FOR YOUNG MAN IN STRIPES
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MONCTON, NB, August 24, 2008 - Thousands of young Canadiens dream of having their name on a National Hockey League roster and it is about to happen during the 2008-09 hockey season for one young New Brunswicker.
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NO FIGHTING BAN BUT TOUGHER SANCTIONS IN Q
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VICTORIAVILLE, QC, August 23, 2008 – Those who were expecting that the consulting committee’s long-awaited report, containing recommendations pertaining to the elimination of gratuitous violence in hockey, to recommend the elimination of fighting in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will be disappointed.
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SLAMMERS HAVE A FEW TOUGH DAYS AHEAD
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WOODSTOCK, NB, August 23, 2008 - Woodstock Slammers and potential Slammers took to the ice Saturday morning at the Carleton Civic Centre to startt preparing for the 2008-09 Maritime Junior A Hockey League season.
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MARINERS SIGN FORMER ABBY
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YARMOUTH, NS, August 23, 2008 - The Yarmouth Mariners of the Maritime Junior Hockey League has acquired the rights to 21 year-old defenceman Drew Melnick from Slogan Park, B.C..
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MJAHL MEEK DIVISION LOOKS ANYTHING BUT MEEK
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RIVERVIEW, NB, August 22, 2008 - With training camps opening over the next week in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League, the attention of hockey fans in the Maritimes on what lies ahead for their favorite team. If the hype eminating from the five teams that will make up the Roger Meek Division is any indication that division could be anything but meek.
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HALIFAX LIONS ROAR INTO THE MJAHL
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HALIFAX, NS, August 22, 2008 - Halifax's new Maritime Junior A Hockey League team finally has a name. The Halifax Lions will roar into action this September as the newest addition to the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. The announcement was made Friday
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BRETT GALLANT TO BE A MAINEIAC
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 22, 2008 - Saint John Sea Dogs of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has traded veteran forward Brett Gallant to the Lewiston MAINEiacs of the same league in exchange for a sixth round selection at the 2009 QMJHL Entry Draft.
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LUND'S CAREER APPEARS TO BE OVER
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HALIFAX, NS, August 22, 2008 - Concussions appear to have ended the once-promising hockey career of Halifax teenager Stephen Lund. The Halifax Mooseheads defenceman recently informed club management he will not report to training camp, which opens on Thursday at Cole Harbour Place.
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SEA DOGS ADD LEBLANC TO SCOUTING STAFF
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 22, 2008 - Moncton native Stéphane Leblanc has been added to the Saint John Sea Dogs scouting department, Head Coach and General Manager Jacques Beaulieu announced Friday.
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SLAMMERS MAKE DEALS TO ADD TO ROSTER
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WOODSTOCK, NB, August 21, 2008 - The Woodstock Slammers of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League has added two forwards, a defenceman and a goaltender, all with junior A experiece over the last couple of weeks.
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ROOM FOR MANY NEW FACES ON WESTERN SUBWAYS
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CORNER BROOK, NL, August 21, 2008 - After a season, which counts as one of the most successful in the Western NL Subways last decade, it's time once again to start the rebuilding process as nine to fifteen players move on to other teams.
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TIGERS HAVE NEW MANAGEMENT AND COACHES
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CAMPBELLTON, NB, August 21, 2008 - After weeks of uncertainty the Restigouche Tigers have a new management team in place and a new coaching staff. The team, owned by the City of Campbellton, ended up without anyone to run the team last month when negotiations with the previous management group broke down.
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MORGAN ELLIS HOPES TO BE AN EAGLE
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WOLFVILLE, N.S. - August 21, 2008 - Toronto was the place to be this summer for Morgan Ellis who hopes to make the jump to the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League this coming season after his first year with the Charlottetown Islanders of the NB-PEI Major Midget Hockey League.
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WILDCATS COULD HAVE IRVINGS OFF AND ON ICE
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MONCTON, NB, August 21, 2008 - Moncton Wildcats are certain to have an Irving as an owner wnen the team skates onto the ice for it’s 2008-09 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season opener September 12 and there may be an Irving on the team’s playing roster as well.
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A DREAM OPPORTUNITY FOR MACLAUGHLIN
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 21, 2008 - A longtime friendship with Stew MacDonald, the executive vice-president of commercial operations for the Edmonton Oilers, has opened the door to a dream opportunity for Quispamsis, NB resident Pat McLaughlin. UPDATED
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DO THE RAMS HAVE THE BEST LOGO IN THE MJAHL?
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RIVERVIEW, NB, August 20, 2008 - In an article on THN.com, THN intern Justin Dickie, a native of Nova Scotia, picks the Amherst Ramblers logo as one of the best junior A logos in Canada. Hockeyscene.com wants to know your opinion. Is the Ramblers logo the best logo in the Marirtime Junior A Hockey League?
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FORMER T-WOLVES STAR PICKS YORK UNIVERSITY
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MIRAMICHI, NB, August 20, 2008 - The York University Lions announced recently that Miramichi Timberwolves 2007-08 scoring leader Adam Ross, a native of Edmonton, AB, will join the men’s hockey team for the 2008-09 OUAA season.
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LUMBERJACKS OPEN CAMP FRIDAY
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BRIDGEWATER, NS, August 20, 2008 - The Bridgewater Nauss TIM-BR Mart Lumberjacks of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League will take to the ice this Friday night at the Bridgewater Memorial Arena for the team's first training camp under their new name.
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TOMMIES COACH TRYING TO FILL HOLES
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FREDERICTON, NB, August 20, 2008 - At times this summer St. Thomas Tommies head coach Mike Eagles must have wondered if he was winning or losing on the recruiting front with players moving on to pro hockey along with those that graduated outnumbering his recruits but he now appears to be making headway up front at least.
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TWO ATLANTIC OFFICIALS TO NHL ROOKIE TOURNEY
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BOUCHERVILLE, QC, August 20, 2008 – Two Atlantic Canadian officials who are officials in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League officials have been selected by the National Hockey League to work the NHL Rookie Tournament which will be held in Kitchener, Ontario, from September 13 to 15.
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MUSTANGS GET PREPARED FOR ANOTHER SEASON
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BRIDGEWATER, NS, August 19, 2008 - The South Shore Mustangs opened their pre-season play Tuesday night on a positive note as they doubled the Valley Wildcats 4-2 in Kentville.
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HAVERSTOCK NAMED TO CANADA'S UNDER 22 TEAM
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TORONTO, ON, August 19, 2008 – Brittany Haverstock of Hammonds Plains, NS has been named to Canada’s National Women’s Under-22 Team roster that will take part in a three-game series vs. USA’s Women’s Under-22 Select Team from August 20-23 in Pierrefonds, QC, just outside Montreal.
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SAULNIER, WONG OFF TO LAKE PLACID
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TORONTO, ON, August 19, 2006 - Jillian Saulnier of Halifax and Jessica Wong of Baddeck, NS have been named to the Canadian team for an upcoming three-game series against the USA’s Women’s Under-18 Select Team from August 20-23 in Lake Placid, New York.
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HOCKEY PART OF 55 PLUS CANADA GAMES IN DIEPPE
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DIEPPE- The City of Dieppe will welcome over 1,500 athletes for the 6th edition of the Canada 55+ Games which will take place from Tuesday the 26th until Saturday the 30th of August and hockey will be one of the sports on the schedule.
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SEA DOGS PRE-SEASON TICKETS ON SALE
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 19, 2008 --- Tickets to the Saint John Sea Dogs' two home exhibition games are now on sale to the general public, Sea Dogs Ticketing Manager Shanna Aker announced Monday
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SEA DOGS INVITE FOUR ONTARIO PLAYERS TO CAMP
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SAINT JOHN, NB, August 18, 2008 - Hot on the heels of an agreement between Canada’s major junior hockey leagues on how the signing of free agents from each other’s territories will be handled, the Saint John Sea Dogs and Moncton Wildcats have issued invitations to players from other parts of the country to attend their camps later this month.
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SHORTENED CAMPS A POSITIVE STEP FOR TEAM
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SAINT JOHN, N.B. - August 19, 2008 - President of the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, Paul MacDonald is happy the opening of training camps has been changed this year. "We think it is a positive step," he said in an interview. "Camp was just too long in the past."
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MAINLAND MIDGET LEAGUE PRESEASOM MEET
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AMHERST, NS, August 19, 2008 - The Mainland Midget Minor AAA Hockey League will be holding a meeting to prepare for the 2008-09 season this Sunday, August 24,2008 at 10:30am at the Wentworth Fire Department.
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