The Montreal-North Arctic were a Junior "A"
ice hockey
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team from
Saint-Leonard,
Quebec
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, Canada and were part of the
Quebec Junior Hockey League
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(QJHL).
History
The franchise entered the QJHL in 2002 as the Gladiateur de St. Eustache
In the Summer of 2008, the team moved to become the Sainte-Thérèse Nordiques.
In the Summer of 2009, the team was moved again to
Laval,
Quebec
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. The official name was Rousseau-Sports Junior AAA Laval. In the 2008–09 season
Eliezer Sherbatov
Eliezer "Elie" Alexeevich Sherbatov (; born 9 October 1991) is an Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Jonquière Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, after having played for HC Mariupol of the Ukrainian Hockey Leagu ...
led the team and was third in the league in scoring.
In the playoffs, he helped the team win the championship while leading the playoffs with 15 goals in 18 games.
In 2010, the name was changed again to the ''Laval Arctic''. One season later they became the St-Leonard Arctic. After the start of the 2017 season the club re-branded once more, this time becoming the Montreal-North Arctic.
The North Arctic folded after the 2018-19 season.
Season-by-season record
''Note: GP = Games Played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against''
Notable players
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Eliezer Sherbatov
Eliezer "Elie" Alexeevich Sherbatov (; born 9 October 1991) is an Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Jonquière Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, after having played for HC Mariupol of the Ukrainian Hockey Leagu ...
(born 1991), Canadian-Israeli ice hockey player
References
External links
Arctic Webpage
Ligue de Hockey Junior AAA Quebec teams
Arctic
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Saint-Leonard, Quebec
2002 establishments in Quebec
2019 disestablishments in Quebec
Ice hockey clubs established in 2002
Ice hockey clubs disestablished in 2019
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