The Sherbrooke Castors or Beavers (in English) was the name of two different

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teams in the

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and another team in the Quebec Eastern Provincial Hockey League. Both later franchises played at the Palais des Sports in

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, Canada.

Earlier Castors

The earlier Sherbrooke Beavers were a

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team which won the 1965 Allan Cup, and previously played in the Quebec Eastern Provincial Hockey League, an amateur league and team from 1959 to 1962.

Original Castors

The Sherbrooke Castors (1969-1982) moved to

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in 1982, named the Saint-Jean Castors. In 1989 they were renamed the Saint-Jean Lynx. In 1995 the team moved to

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to become the

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. This original Castors franchise won the President's Cup in 1975, 1977 and 1982. The second incarnation never won. The Castors played in the

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in those three years, and came closest to winning in 1982, when they lost in the tournament final to the Kitchener Rangers.

Sherbrooke Faucons/Castors

The second Sherbrooke Castors team (1998-2003), originally the Trois-Rivières Draveurs, franchise moved to Sherbrooke in 1992 as the

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("Falcons"). The Faucons were renamed to Castors in 1998 and moved to

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in 2003, to be renamed the Lewiston Maineiacs. The Maineiacs folded in 2011, and the City of Sherbrooke received an expansion franchise in 2012 in the form of the Sherbrooke Phoenix.

NHL alumni

The following Castors/Faucons later played in the

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References

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