Alumni Update: Statistics

Logan Crosby of Pictou County
Photo - Jennifer Weeks

There are plenty of former Halifax Mooseheads players suiting up for teams in different leagues on both sides of the ocean. I figured I would share how some of them are doing in terms of statistics for the leagues that are on a holiday break now in North America. It's crazy that we are already this close to Christmas time. 

QMJHL (major junior)

MJAHL (junior a)

QJHL (junior a)

NSJHL (junior b)

U-SPORTS (university)

NCAA

NSSHL (nova scotia senior)

AESHL (newfoundland senior)

CWSHL (newfoundland senior)

LHSAAAQ (quebec senior)

LHSB (new brunswick senior)

NPHL (ontario senior)

LHCS

LNAH (semi-professional)

Good luck to all the players in the second half of their season. 

Herd Word

Photo - Trevor MacMillan via The Hockey News

It's opening week finally.

The Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League regular season begins this week when the defending league champion Moncton Wildcats visit the Newfoundland Regiment on Thursday night. It will be the first QMJHL game in St. John's since 2008. 

Our Halifax Mooseheads will play a home-and-home series against the Charlottetown Islanders this weekend to start the year, opening up on the road before hosting their home opener on September 20. 

Photo - Crushers Facebook

MHL SEASON UNDERWAY
The Maritime Junior A Hockey League regular season got underway this past Thursday and there are a number of Herd alumni playing in the league. Defenseman Dominic MacKenzie along with forwards Logan Crosby and Cade Moser will suit up with the Pictou County Crushers while the Truro Bearcats have forwards Liam Welsh, Jake Todd and Callum Aucoin on their roster. 

Halifax affiliate players Cole Bent (Valley), Tucker Makinen (Yarmouth), Ryan Fletcher (Valley), Jameson George (Chaleur), Aidan Bent (Valley) and Cole MacLeod (Yarmouth) have also been named to rosters. 

19-year-old Logan Crosby, who played 163 games with the Mooseheads before being traded to the Moncton Wildcats, will wear the C on his chest for the Crushers after being named captain on September 11. In his third season with the Bearcats, Liam Welsh, 20, was given the C while Jake Todd was named an assistant captain on the Truro club. 

KILFOIL SCORES
While participating in Detroit Red Wings camp, forward Liam Kilfoil scored a really nice goal in the Wings' 6-5 loss against the Dallas Stars prospects on Sunday. 

Detroit has not announced their main camp roster so I am not sure if Kilfoil has been invited but I haven't seen the team announce they have released him either. 

A beauty from Liam Kilfoil pic.twitter.com/A0CoJaKTAK

— Detroit Red Wings (@DetroitRedWings) September 15, 2025

SIMONS PUTTING UP MONEY
Back in June, it was announced that the Halifax Mooseheads were asking the Halifax regional council for a loan worth about 1.5 million dollars to build a 4,720-square-foot training facility extension to the RBC Centre in Dartmouth. The council said they would look into it but as of September, had not made a decision. 

Well now, the clubs owners, Simon Sports, are saying they will be willing to pay for the full price of the construction. There are still questions and the final plan needs to be given the green light by the council either way it sounds like. Even once it is, the facility wouldn't be complete for another additional year or so. For the full story, click here. 

QMJHL FIGHT
After not being offered an entry level contract by the Nashville Predators who drafted him in 2023, former Moose defenseman Dylan MacKinnon was invited to Boston Bruins rookie camp over the weekend. The Bruins participated in the two-game Prospects Challenge hosted by Buffalo. During the team's game against New Jersey, MacKinnon fought fellow Q alumnus Cam Squires. 

ARENA UPGRADES
Talking about the home opener, fans should expect to see some changes when they head to the Scotiabank Centre on Saturday evening. A new public address system has been added to the facility, along with new interior and exterior digital signage. There will be new concessions offerings though no more info is given. Work is also currently being completed on a new state-of-the-art player area for the Mooseheads players and coaching stuff which is slated to open later this fall according to the article released by the team. 

Scotiabank renewed its naming rights partnership with the arena back in the spring and it was long rumoured (or known) that upgrades would be made once again to the almost 50 year old building. 

"We're excited to start a new season with our incredible fans. There are many new additions to the fan experience that we are looking forward to sharing with them. We have a great young team and we can't wait for all of us to be together again on Saturday night in Moose Country," said President Brian Urquhart. 

CHL TOP 10 
While our Mooseheads did not make the pre-season top 10 rankings, I thought I would share them for anybody who is interested. 
1. Blainville-Boisbriand Armada 
2. Brantford Bulldogs 
3. Spokane Chiefs 
4. Chicoutimi Sagueneens 
5. Windsor Spitfires
6. Edmonton Oilers
7. Kitchener Rangers
8. Moncton Wildcats
9. Kelowna Rockets
10. Niagara IceDogs

Other things..

• This is a little late but I wanted to still share it anyways. Nova Scotia was well represented at Hockey Canada's Olympics orientation camp in late August & the four players attending got together for a picture.

  

  'Coupla bluenosers' Marchand, Turnbull, Crosby & MacKinnon
  Photo - Blayre Turnbull's Instagram

  
  
• FloHockey lists Halifax forward Liam Kilfoil as one of top future NHL prospects to watch in the QMJHL this year. Kilfoil went undrafted in 2025 but is eligible again for the 2026 entry draft. 
• Pictou County's Logan Crosby (3G & 1A) and Cade Moser (1G & 3A) have started the MHL season on a good note, with both recording 4 points each in 2 games. Jake Todd had two goals for Truro over the weekend. 
• On September 4, it was announced that the Guelph Storm and Kitchener Rangers were named the finalists to host the 2027 Memorial Cup. 

Herd Word

CHL AWARDS
After winning the Marcel Robert Trophy as the QMJHL's scholastic player of the year, former Moose forward Mathieu Cataford received a nomination for the CHL's equivalent. On June 13 during the ceremony at Delta Hotels Toronto, the 20-year-old won the award and was named the 2025 CHL Scholastic Player of the Year. Cataford has been studying in his second language (English) and maintaining an average above 95%. Now enrolled in Business Administration at Saint Mary's University, the Saint Constant, Quebec native 'has achieved a perfect 4.0 GPA each semester and plans to study kinesiology to eventually open his own training centre.' 

Photo - CHL Twitter

Congrats Mathieu on winning the award. Hear what Cataford had to say about his journey here. 

Overage goaltender Jacob Steinman was a nominee for the CHL Goaltender of the Year award after winning the QMJHL's Patrick Roy Trophy but was defeated by the Kitchener Rangers' Jackson Parsons. 

TRAINING FACILITY
According to the CBC, the Halifax Mooseheads have asked city regional council for up to $1.625 million to expand the training facility they lease at the RBC Centre in Dartmouth. The team proposed a 4,700-square-foot addition to upgrade the building. 'Russell told the committee a state-of-the-art facility would enhance the Mooseheads' ability to attract top talent, putting the team on the same level as NCAA teams, universities and colleges.' A 21-metre turf training track, high-performance gym, more spacious player lounge along with a sauna and steam room are included in the proposed plans. No word on when a decision will be made by the council was noted in the news article.

BEHIND THE SCENES
Ever wondered what happens during draft weekend? Well the Halifax Mooseheads posted a behind the scenes video of the 2025 QMJHL Entry Draft.

PROSPECTS DRAFTED IN MHL
Three Mooseheads' prospects were drafted last weekend into the Maritime Hockey League. South Kent Selects' Duncan Anderson, who Halifax selected in the 11th round at this year's QMJHL draft, was taken 3rd overall by the Valley Wildcats. Forward Sam Ryan, picked 167th by the Herd in early June, heard his name called also by the Wildcats in the fifth round. Meanwhile, the Mooseheads' last 2025 selection; goaltender Jack Bell was picked at the #106 spot by the Amherst Ramblers. 

Full draft results can be found on the MHL website. 

Photo - AP News

MARCHAND WINS AGAIN
Herd alumni Brad Marchand is a champion once again after winning the Stanley Cup on June 17 with the Florida Panthers. The 37-year-old recorded 20 points (10G & 10A) in 23 games played during the playoffs to help the Panthers go back to back. Marchand was traded back in March from the Boston Bruins to Florida and played 10 regular season matches with his new team. He scored 2 big goals in Game 5 en route of the Panthers' 4-2 series victory in a rematch against the Edmonton Oilers. The Halifax-native previously won the ultimate trophy as part of the 2011 Bruins team. 

Congratulations to Brad and the Panthers on lifting the 2025 Stanley Cup. 

NHL DRAFT

Photo - Canadiens Twitter

The 2025 NHL Draft was held this weekend and only one Moosehead player heard his name. Defenceman Carlos Handel was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the 6th round, 177th overall on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, CA. Handel, who was ranked #73 in the CSS final rankings, is coming off his rookie campaign in the QMJHL where he scored 3 goals and 26 points for Halifax. 

Central Scouting Services had ranked two other young men who suited up in Moose Country this past season but unfortunately Liam Kilfoil and Shawn Carrier did not get picked. Hopefully the two teammates will still be invited to development and/or rookie camps this summer. 

On Friday, the New York Islanders picked Matthew Schaefer of the OHL's Erie Otters first overall. The Moncton Wildcats' Caleb Desnoyers, who is former Herd Elliot Desnoyer's younger brother, got drafted by the Utah Mammoth at #4. Carlos and Caleb were two of a total 19 QMJHL players that were selected over the two day event.  

Herd Word

I'm sorry I haven't been posting much lately, I've been busy the last couple of months with school and finding a job but I thought I would bring those who don't have social media up to date on things that have been happening. All the changes made because of the pandemic have also messed me up a little so below you will find news that has happened over the last couple of weeks. I hope to make a number more posts as we wrap up the regular season in the next 5 weeks. 

NHL TRADE DEADLINE
While no former Halifax Mooseheads player who is on an NHL team was traded earlier this month, a couple of alum in the minor leagues were moved on deadline day. 

The move I didn't want to be made happened but the Montreal Canadiens traded forward Artturi Lehkonen to the Colorado Avalanche on March 21. In return they received 2020-21 Herd captain Justin Barron and a 2nd round pick in 2024. Barron had 5 goals and 20 points in 43 games played for the Colorado Eagles this season. On Sunday night, Justin made his debut for the Canadiens wearing #52, making 3 shots in almost 18 minutes of ice time. Not sure if the defenceman will stay up in the big league or if Montreal will reassign him to Laval. 

Another former captain, Antoine Morand also saw his rights traded from the Tampa Bay Lightning to the San Jose Sharks the same day. Morand was immediately assigned to the Sharks' AHL affiliate, the San Jose Barracuda and has already scored a goal for his new team. The 23-year-old previously played for the Syracuse Crunch and San Diego Gulls of the AHL posted 44 points in 138 games. 

Good luck to both players with their new clubs. 

MEIER HAT TRICK
More San Jose news, forward Timo Meier had a big game last night scoring his third NHL hat trick helping the Sharks defeat their state rivals the Anaheim Ducks 4-1. Check out the video below to see all three goals. With it, Meier is now just one point away from his career high in points, he had 66 in the 2018-19 season. 

"Obviously, I love scoring goals, that's no secret. But for me, the main focus is to win games," Meier said after the game to media. 

Last night wasn't the first time this season that the Switzerland native and former Moose captain scored a hat trick. He actually had 5 goals in two periods during a game in January against the Los Angeles Kings. See those goals below. 

CALL UP
Halifax announced last week that forward Braeden MacPhee has been recalled to the team's roster for the remainder of the season. He will wear number 12 for the Mooseheads. The move comes after MacPhee's season in the MHL finished where he played for the Miramichi Timberwolves producing 25 points in 30 games. 

"Braeden brings speed and grit with a nice infusion of skill. It's a good opportunity for him to practice and play with us," GM Cam Russell said. 

MHL AWARDS

A couple of Herd prospects had good seasons in the Maritime Hockey League and were rewarded with some league honours. Fall River, NS native Bryson Boudreau was named the 2021-22 Rookie of the Year after leading all rookies with 23 goals and 41 points. The 18-year-old was a free agent invite of the Mooseheads and played well in intra-squad games during training camp back in August. 

MacPhee and Boudreau both were named to the MHL's Rookie All-Star Team despite both of their clubs not making the playoffs. 

UNIVERSITY COMMITMENT 
Well, one alum has made a commitment to the university he will play for next season. Brendan Tomilson, who played for our Halifax Mooseheads from 2019-21, will suit up for the York Lions. The 20-year-old is currently playing for the Pickering Panthers and has recorded 53 points in 51 games as captain of the team. 

Q PLAYOFFS
We're a little over a month away from the QMJHL playoffs starting and there have finally been a few teams who have clinched a spot. The Charlottetown Islanders, Sherbrooke Phoenix and Quebec Remparts put X's beside their names in the standings this past weekend. 

The Herd are quite a few games away from clinching a spot in the post-season but I can't see why Halifax wouldn't make it. Halifax is currently 10th in the overall standings with a 27-25-1-1 record. 

PARENT
Forward Xavier Parent, who played for Halifax for two seasons, was named to the QMJHL Team of the Week on Monday afternoon. The recently turned 21-year-old scored 6 goals and had 8 points this past week in 3 games and was a plus-5. Congrats to Xavier on being given the honour. 

Parent is having quite the final junior season as he currently has 39 goals and 42 assists with Sherbrooke who lead the Western Conference. His 81 points have come in 49 games played during 2021-22, which is more than double his previous career high (34 points/67 games in 2018-19 with Halifax). Xavier is third in league scoring with a quarter of the season remaining. 

Photos - Canadiens website, Mooseheads Twitter, York Lions Twitter & Q website

Herd Word

Photo - Trinec Facebook

VRANA
I don't pay too much attention to the European leagues so I missed one of the alumni winning a championship during the 2020-21 season. Petr Vrana captained his Trinec club to a Czech Extraliga first place back in April. Ocelari Trinec won the best-of-7 series 4-1 with a 3-0 victory on April 26 over Liberec. Congrats to Vrana and his team on becoming champions. 

MHL DRAFT
A number of Herd prospects were also recently drafted into the Maritime Hockey League this past weekend. There was a total of 120 players that were selected by the 12 teams. Halifax drafted Travis Badcock in 2020 while the other 5 names below were picked in the 2021 draft. 

Travis Badcock  Rd 1, #5   Miramichi
Jack Martin  Rd 2, #19   Edmundston
Logan Crosby  Rd 3, #27   Pictou County
Liam Welsh  Rd 4, #46   South Shore
Jack Milner  Rd 8, #89   Truro
Ben Wallace  Rd 10, #109   Valley

Congrats to all the players selected. 

TOURIGNY
Former Herd head coach Andre Tourigny has yet another new team. The Arizona Coyotes announced on July 1st that they have hired Tourigny as the 19th head coach in the team's history and signed him to a three year contract. 

The Coyotes general manager Bill Armstrong had this to say; "Andre is a tremendous person and one of the best young coaches in the game today. He is a winner, a great teacher and a strong communicator who has a proven track record of developing young talent. We are confident that he is the right person to lead our team on the ice and we are thrilled to have him in our organization."

Tourigny coached the Mooseheads for one season, 2016-17, before leaving to coach the Ottawa 67's to be closer to home and his family. Congrats to Andre on the new gig and good luck in Phoenix.  

TRAINING CAMP
No word on when training camp will begin but the team has said they do have commitments from some of their players that they will be attending. According to Willy Palov, imports Attilio Biasca and Senna Peeters are returning for another season with the Mooseheads which is why Cam Russell didn't draft anyone else in the CHL Import Draft last week. Scott MacIntosh also tweeted out that Halifax will have it's last four American draftees at camp come next month. 2020 draft picks Brady Schultz and Henry Wilson along with 2021 picks Chris Battaini and Jake Freelove are going to attend. Hopefully Zack Jones will be at camp also, he had 5 goals and 13 points in 2020-21 for the Herd. 

We're probably still another month away before we find out what regulations the Herd will have to follow this season and the team releasing details for training camp. With a Tuesday night game to start the pre-season, players will most likely arrive for camp the Friday before. I hope we get more info on everything sooner than later. 

MOOSE TRACKS
Our Halifax Mooseheads have come out with a new video, the first in what looks to be a new series called Moose Tracks and this episode showcases a behind the scenes look at the 2021 QMJHL draft day. Check out what happens in the Herd war room and hear what Cam Russell and Allie MacDonald have to say about the selections they made in the first round last month. 

I hope they continue these as it would be cool to see more behind the scenes stuff throughout the season. 

BURRIDGE
Jeffrey Burridge, a Moose alumni who played for the team during the 2019-20 season, has been named Captain of the London Nationals junior B team. The Nationals play in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League. Burridge collected nine goals and 15 points in 56 games with Halifax. Read the London Press' full release here. 

NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
The Stanley Cup was awarded on July 7 to the Tampa Bay Lightning, about 3.5 weeks later than the trophy is normally won. Tampa Bay defeated the Montreal Canadiens in Game 5 of the best-of-seven final series. Former Herd coach Dominique Ducharme missed the first two games of the final round because he was in isolation after a positive COVID test on June 17. He returned to coach the Canadiens for Game 3 but couldn't lead his team to a championship. Jonathan Drouin, who played for Halifax for two seasons, did not play in any playoff games so I'm not really sure if he will have his name engraved on the trophy. 

The city of Seattle officially have an NHL team after they payed their final expansion payment a few weeks ago so there is now 32 teams in the top North American professional league. With it, the clubs will have a busy second half of July as the expansion draft goes July 21 and the entry draft is on July 23 & 24 before free agency opens July 28. I'm sure there will be lots of Mooseheads connections during these events. I will keep you updated as details become available. 

CRAIG'S LIST
Since we are getting close to the 2021 NHL Entry Draft, TSN Director of Scouting Craig Button released his final rankings. There are three current Mooseheads players on the list which features 75 names in total. Sophomore Zachary L'Heureux is ranked the highest at #12 followed by Robert Orr at #57 and Cameron Whynot two picks later. For the full list, click here. L'Heureux was also ranked #30 by the NHL Central Scouting Services in their final rankings. 

Alumni Update: 1st Half Stats

There are plenty of former Halifax Mooseheads playing in different leagues across the world, mainly in North America. Since the university hockey season is on a break currently along with the QMJHL, I thought I would update you on how they are doing. Six Herd alum are participating in their first season of university hockey in 2019-20; Keith Getson (Saint Mary's), Brett Crossley (Dalhousie), Ryan Barbosa (Windsor), Morgan Nauss (Acadia), Jordan Maher (PEI) and Joel Bishop (Saint Mary's). Also included are stats from the Maritime Hockey League. (stats as of end of Dec 15)

GP-G-A-Pts

U-Sports
Matt Murphy (UNB)                17   4    10   14
Keith Getson (Saint Mary's)     18   6    7    13
Andrew Shewfelt (Dalhousie)  18   5    5    10
Ryan Barbosa (Windsor)          17   4    7    11
Kelly Bent (Dalhousie)            16   1    2     3
Joel Bishop (Saint Mary's)       18   1   3     4
Brett Crossley (Dalhousie)       17   5   1     6
Taylor Ford (McGill)               16   0    1    1
Keigan Goetz (Waterloo)         14   4    1    5
Austyn Hardie (Saint Mary's)  18   0    7    7
Samuel Hunter (Queen's)         13   0    0    0
Brad Kennedy (Mount Royal) 16   4    8    12
Jordan King (Lakehead)          14   5    6    11
Jesse Lussier (Dalhousie)         9    0    4    4
Jordan Maher (UPEI)              17   3    5    8
Zachary Taylor (Dalhousie)    18   0    3    3
Morgan Nauss (Acadia)           7    0    2    2
Anthony Sorrentino (Wilfred) 17   5    7   12

QMJHL
Mathieu Charlebois (Drummondville)  30   2    5    7
Xavier Parent (Sherbrooke)                   23   9   10   19
Jordan Lepage (Shawinigan)                 26   0   4     4

MJAHL 
Ben Higgins (Truro)                 26   18   18   36
Caleb Rich (Amherst                28   15   23   38
Brock McLeod (Edmundston)  28   17   26   43
Denis Toner (Grand Fall           17   1     11   12

Three of the 4 former Herd players playing in the Maritime Hockey League are leading their team in scoring while Denis Toner, a defenceman, was named captain of his Rapids team at the beginning of the season. 

Herd Word

Welcome to the new year. As it's been the holidays, I've been busy so instead of writing individual stories about news that has happened the last few days, I thought I would do a Herd Word.

FUCALE
Former Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Zach Fucale led Team Canada to a championship once again. Fucale was playing in the Spengler Cup last week and went into the tournament as a backup. However after Drew MacIntyre struggled in the first game, the 21 year old started the second preliminary game and had a 33 save performance as the Canadians won 4-3 over host HC Davos. He was than the starter for the rest of the tournament. The Rosemere, QC native performed quite well the rest of the week to help Hockey Canada back to the gold medal game. Team Canada played HC Lugano for the Spengler Cup and Zach stopped 40 shots en route to a 5-2 victory.

HISCHIER
Switzerland has improved on their 9th place finish from last year's World Junior championship and in part it's because of the great tournament Mooseheads rookie Nico Hischier had over the past week. Hischier, who turns 18 tomorrow, led the Swiss in scoring during the tourney with 4 goals and 7 points. One of his goals was an overtime winner last Tuesday against the Czech Republic. He scored again on Friday in regulation versus Denmark which also ended in extra time. The 4 points Team Switzerland picked up gave them a quarter-final berth where they would play the United States on Monday. The rookie had two really great goals but his performance wasn't enough to get his team to the semis because of a great save by the American goaltender in the last 5 minutes of the game which prevented Nico scoring a hat trick. Hischier was named player of the game as well as one of Switzerland's 3 best players of the tournament.

https://twitter.com/mikemorrealeNHL/status/816096671016898560

RESOP
According to the Miramichi Timberwolves, they have acquired the MHL rights of Herd goaltender Kevin Resop from the St. Stephen's Aces. The Mooseheads have not said anything about a trade or demotion of Resop but it's assumed that he will not be back with Halifax as the Moose traded for goalie Blade Mann-Dixon. Will be interesting to see what happens now for Kevin. Wherever he ends up, Moose Country would like to say good luck!

SATURDAY
As you may know, the game this coming Saturday versus the Saint John Sea Dogs is going to be broadcasted on Sportsnet. Because the match up is on national television, the puck drop for it has been changed to 4:00pm. So come out and support the boys against one of the best teams in the QMJHL this weekend. It should be an exciting game.

CHAINEY
It was announced on Monday that defenseman Jocktan Chainey has been suspended for 4 games after a hit that occurred during the December 30th game in Cape Breton. He will be eligible to return on Sunday afternoon when the Mooseheads visit Saint John. For video and full explanation, click here.

Photo - Eagles website

HURLEY CUP
Talking about the Screaming Eagles, they swept your Mooseheads in the home and home series late last week which gave them the first ever Hurley Cup. For a number of years now, the two provincial rivals have had back to back games against each other after the holiday break and wear special blue jerseys that get raffled off for Feed Nova Scotia normally. This season, the teams decided to add another aspect to the series in which the team with the most goals over the two games wins the Hurley Cup. For more info on how it worked, click here. Cape Breton won both games and had a 11-5 goal advantage.

UP NEXT
Your Halifax Mooseheads start 2017 by taking a trip to New Brunswick today to visit the Moncton Wildcats. Game time is 7pm and it's Camo Night at the Moncton Coliseum. The two teams will play again on Friday evening in Halifax. Friday's match will be shown on Eastlink TV and it's Teddy Bear Toss night at the Scotiabank Centre. Don't forget to bring a stuffed animal to the game so you can throw it on the ice when the Herd score their first goal of the game.

Former Moose Get New Teams for 16-17

A few former Halifax Mooseheads players will be on different teams in 2016-17 than they were last season. If you follow me on Twitter, most of this will be old news but I thought I would put all this news in one post for readers.

Photo - Nauss Facebook

During training camp, the Herd made a few transactions that moved veteran players to other teams. Halifax traded defensemen Morgan Nauss and Jean-Sebastien Taillefer to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens and Gatineau Olympiques respectively, towards the end of August for a few draft picks. 18 year old Nauss has no points in 3 games played and a minus-3 so far this season for the Sags while 19 year old Taillefer has 3 assists in 11 games and is minus-1 with the Piques. Sophomores Ilya Putintsev and Dominik Blain-Dupuis apparently didn't fit in to the direction that new head coach Andre Touriney was looking to go as the team put both players on waivers. Putintsev was picked up by the Moncton Wildcats and has since played 8 games assisting on three goals. Blain-Dupuis was picked up by the Olympiques and has gotten a lot of ice time that he probably wouldn't with the Moose, playing all 11 games for Gatineau while picking up an assist. The Mooseheads also released overager Andrew Shewfelt toward the end of camp and he now plays for the Amherst Ramblers of the MJAHL. Shewfelt has 2 assists in 8 games played.

Photo - Florida Everblades Twitter

In mid-September it was announced by the Florida Everblades of the ECHL that they signed former Herd forward Stephen MacAulay for the 2016-17 season. The 24 year old has yet to play a game this season for the Everbaldes but they're only two games into the ECHL season. MacAulay, a native of Cole Harbour, NS, spent the last two and a half seasons with the Saint Mary's Huskies. This will be Stephen's second crack at securing a pro career after he split the first half of the 2013-14 season between the Hamilton Bulldogs (AHL) and the Wheeling Nailers (ECHL) before coming home to play university hockey.

Over the summer, the Moncton Wildcats announced that the team had traded Herd alumni Cody Donaghey to the Charlottetown Islanders. The defenseman has benefited from a high-skilled Islanders team and is currently 7th in league scoring with 15 points, twelve of which are assists. He's played 10 games and is a minus-1. This will be Donaghey's last season in the QMJHL. The St. John's, NL native played the first half of 2015-16 with the Mooseheads and recorded 11 points in 21 games.

Boston, MA native Danny Moynihan was a free-agent invite to Vancouver Canucks training camp last month before being reassigned to the team's American Hockey League affiliate, the Utica Comets who signed Moynihan to a two-way AHL/ECHL contract on October 4. The Comets reassigned the 20 year old to the Alaska Aces of the ECHL a few days later where it is unknown right now if he'll make the team. Moynihan, who split the 2015-16 season between the Mooseheads and Shawinigan Cataractes, will be on a new team this year even if he doesn't make the Aces as he has been recruited by the Dalhousie Tigers. The Tigers' coach, Chris Donnelly, discussed the prospect of Moynihan coming back to Halifax should his professional aspirations not work out with John Moore, the voice of the Mooseheads News 95.7 broadcasts (see below).

After aging out of juniors, Matt Murphy has joined the University of New Brunswick Varisty Reds hockey team for the 2016-17 season. The former Herd was invited to Winnipeg Jets training camp last month but was later released. Murphy will try to help the V-Reds repeat as University Cup champions and isn't doing to bad to start the season. The 21 year old has 5 assists in 4 games played to go with 8 penalty minutes. The defenseman played two and a half seasons in front of the Moose Country faithful and also spent time with the Val-d'Or Foreurs, Quebec Remparts and Saint John Sea Dogs while in the Q.

There will be one former Moose to start the season in the National Hockey League. It was announced last Sunday that the Carolina Hurricanes claimed alum Martin Frk off waivers from the Detroit Red Wings. Frk, from Pelhrimov, Czech Republic, spent the 2015-16 season with the Wings AHL affiliate, the Grand Rapids Griffins collecting 27 goals and 44 points in 67 games. The 23 year old was named to the Hurricanes opening night roster but did not play. He is expected to make his NHL debut tonight when Carolina visits the Edmonton Oilers.

Photo - NHL.com

Former captain Timo Meier participated in San Jose Sharks training camp last month and looked like he might make the NHL this season. However, it was announced at the end of September that he would be out for four weeks with mononucleosis. The Sharks than announced that they had reassigned the Swiss forward to their minor league team, the San Jose Barracuda, on Friday and that the 20 year old will stay in the Bay area to train as he recovers. Meier will most likely begin the season with the Barracuda, possibly by the end of this month. After that it shouldn't take too long for the former Mooseheads and Rouyn-Noranda Huskies player is back with the big club.

Good luck to all the players with their new teams the rest of the season. Check back here in a few weeks for a list of where more Herd alumni are playing and the first month stats.

UPDATE: Crossley, Prospects Drafted By MHL Teams

A few new prospects of your Halifax Mooseheads were drafted into the Maritime Hockey League today.

Halifax native Brett Crossley, who played with the Moose this past season, was drafted by the Yarmouth Jr. A Mariners in the 7th round. The Mariners had the 9th pick in that round. Crossley scored 6 times and added 2 assists in 58 games played in the 2014-15 season. Five picks earlier, the Pictou County Weeks Crushers drafted Herd prospect Barrett Dachyshyn with the 4th selection in the 7th round. Dachyshyn was picked by Halifax in the 2014 QMJHL draft and has been playing for the Halifax MacDonald's for the past 2 seasons.

Just a week after being drafted by the Mooseheads in the QMJHL draft; Denis Toner, Walter Flower and Ben Higgins were also selected in the draft. Toner was picked 11th overall by the Woodstock Slammers, Flower was picked 123rd overall by the Bridgewater Lumberjacks while Higgins was selected 2 spots later by the Truro Bearcats.

Congrats to all players who were drafted today.

More Mooseheads picked by MHL teams

Six more Halifax Mooseheads players were drafted by teams in the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. Before the regular MHL draft that was held in Summerside this past Saturday, the GMs gathered for the QMJHL supplementary draft.

Three defenceman, a goaltender and two forwards were drafted by four different teams. Jesse Lussier, who will serve as one of Halifax's overagers next season, was drafted by the Amherst Ramblers. Jacob Jacques and Vincent Watt, joined three Wildcat players drafted by the Bridgewater Lumberjacks.


The Summerside Western Capitals were another team that picked two Mooseheads in goaltender Kevin Darveau and Brandon Vuic. Darveau's fate in Halifax's lineup is a bit in the air as the Herd have plenty of good goaltending choices and the amount of spaces available depends on whether Zach Fucale goes professional next season.

Danny Moynihan, who Halifax got as a free agent from drafting his brother Connor in 2013, was drafted by the Truro Bearcats that also hosts a couple of other Moose prospects.

Considering all 6 players made the team last year we should see them all again for the 2014-15 QMJHL season but should they not, this will give them another option to fall back on.

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Mooseheads Prospects Selected in MHL Draft

A few drafted Halifax Mooseheads were selected in today's Maritime Hockey League draft that was being held in Summerside, PEI.

Brandon Worthen played 5 games with the Mooseheads during the 2013-14 season. He was selected by the Valley Wildcats in the first round 4th overall. His selection in the MHL draft is much higher than where he got drafted in the QMJHL draft in 2013. Worthen collected no points in the 5 games he played with the Moose after they selected him 186th overall.

Jordan King was selected 9th overall by the Amherst Ramblers today. King was apart of the Newfoundland and Labrador Hockey League championship team that won in 2012-13 season but lost last season. Halifax drafted Jordan 128th overall in 2013. Morgan Nauss, who was drafted by Halifax a couple weeks ago, was selected by the Bridgewater Lumberjacks 30th overall.

Congrats to all three prospects who were drafted today.


EXPANSION DRAFT
The MHL held an expansion draft a couple of days ago and two more Moose prospects were chosen. The St. Stephen's County Aces were added to the MHL and will have their first year in the league during the 2014-15 season. The Aces chose 2012 draft pick Benji Gaudet from the Miramichi Timberwolves and Andrew Shewfelt who spent last season with the Mooseheads.

Truro and Summerside to continue playing

The Truro Bearcats and Summeside Western Capitals keep playing each other as both of their seasons continued last night. The two teams battled it out earlier in April for the Kent Cup, the Maritime Junior A Hockey League Chamionship trophy. Summerside won the Kent Cup and a berth in the Fred Page Cup for the Eastern Regional playoffs. Despite being the runner up, Truro had an automatic berth in the Fred Page Cup no matter how they did as they were selected to be hosts. Joining Truro and Summerside were the Cornwall Colts of the Central Canada Hockey League and the Langueuil College Francais of the Quebec Junior AAA Hockey League. The Bearcats ended the round robin with a 3-0 record and first place while Summerside was 2-1 and second. The Bearcats advanced right to the finals with Summerside went to the semis and won to set up a rematch of the MHL championship. Truro won in double overtime 3-2.

The Western Capitals host the national championships, the Royal Bank Cup, starting May 11. The Maritime teams will be joined in the Royal Bank Cup by the Surrey Eagles, Brooks Bandits and Minnesota Wilderness.