LHSAAAQ

With hockey’s ever increasing cost, it’s nearly impossible for small markets to get in the game, let alone succeed. Unless, of course, you’re the Bellechasse Bucks. Since joining Quebec’s Senior AAA League in the Fall of 2024, the Bucks appear to have cracked the code by succeeding, and even trendsetting, in the league’s smallest market. When it was first announced in Le Voix du Sud in June of 2023 that AAA hockey was coming to Saint-Anselme, everything seemed to make sense;

Starting from the NHL and working down through every level of hockey, leagues have made efforts to reduce or remove fighting. In the case of the LHSAAAQ, they’re making the effort to remove the violence. The move is far from simple semantics or word play, and so far seems to be satisfying players and fans, as well as sponsors. Per game, the league still enjoys an entertaining quantity of fights but has done so by establishing certain boundaries. Historically, the league wasn

The LHSAAAQ Offseason included a brief round of musical chairs, with the sale and relocation of the Nicolet franchise to Trois-Rivieres and the subsequent sale and relocation of the La Tuque franchise to Nicolet. The teams offered varying degrees of visibility to their new identities in the weeks leading up to the draft, but the league’s July 4 th  event served as their official introductions. The two teams unveiled new names and logos and made roster moves that helped define

We’re just under a week away from the 2025 LHSAAAQ Draft. The event can provide lots of information about where the league is going. Looking at previous drafts, recent initiatives and team movement, as well as making comparisons to other provincial leagues, we can draw some indications on the league’s future or, at a minimum, things to watch for. Visibility: The fact that the draft is taking place at a public venue versus a closed arena shows that the league is continuing to

The LHSAAAQ’s off season is well underway, and franchise movement has been a part of it. While the recent news of the sale and relocation of the LaTuque Wolves was quite a splash, the league taking another shot at Trois-Rivieres has been the big story.   The Coliseum has been attracting teams in various leagues since the departure of the QMJHL’s Draveurs in 1992, mostly without any lasting success . The list of leagues includes the LHSAAAQ as recently as 2023. What and where

With their finals being broadcast on ApexLiveTV, the LHSAAAQ went from low visibility senior hockey to something of a minor league in appearance overnight. This is a massive win for the league and couldn't have come with a better match up than the one going on right now. For those not in the province, it can’t be said how good or bad the hockey was, or how much it’s improved, as it couldn't be seen. In a world where visibility matters, the league was completely off the radar.