The Sherbrooke Canadiens were a professional

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team in

Sherbrooke Sherbrooke ( ; ) is a city in southern Quebec, Canada. It is at the confluence of the Saint-François and Magog rivers in the heart of the Estrie administrative region. Sherbrooke is also the name of a territory equivalent to a regional cou ...

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, Canada. They played their home games at the Palais des Sports. They were a member of the

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from 1984 to 1990, and were a farm team of the

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. The team had been the Nova Scotia Voyageurs before 1984, and subsequently moved to

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as the Fredericton Canadiens. The team won the Calder Cup in 1985, beating the

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in six games behind the goaltending of a young

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Regular season

Playoffs

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