St-Jean Chiefs
The Saint-Jean Chiefs is a hockey team based in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec. The team is part of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey (LNAH). The Chiefs play at the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur.
The team started as the Saint-Lin-Laurentides Gladiateurs in 1996-1997 and moved to Sainte-Thérèse to become the Sainte-Therese Chiefs in 1997-1998. They moved to Laval in 1998-1999 and won the Futura Cup in 2001-2002 and 2002-2003 as the Laval Chiefs. The team was sold to Genex Communications in 2005-2006 and were rechristened the Summum Chiefs after one of Genex's magazines, Summum. Genex sold the team to a group from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and it moved there for the 2006-2007 season.
In an unusual arrangement, the franchise itself was sold and moved to Saguenay in 2008 to become the Saguenay 98.3. However, the team name moved to Saint-Hyacinthe in 2008 to become the Saint-Hyacinthe Chiefs.
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Famous quotes containing the word chiefs:
“If you tie a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.”
—Chief Joseph (c. 1840–1904)