Events

The city of Halifax and the Halifax Mooseheads will host another big event this season along with their annual events. The CHL Subway Super Series versus Russia will hit Moose Country on November 19, 2015. Halifax will not end the season at home this year and the Battle of Nova Scotia events have come back this season. 

Annual events
HOME OPENER - September 18 vs. Acadie-Bathurst Titan
Pink in the Rink 8 - October 17 vs. Acadie-Bathurst Titan
DND Appreciation Night - not yet announced
Battle of Nova Scotia - December 31 vs. Cape Breton Screaming Eagles
Teddy Bear Toss - January 8 vs. Rimouski Oceanic
Fan Appreciation Night - March 12 vs. Charlottetown Islanders

Halifax to Host Super Series

The Canadian Hockey League announced today the 6 cities that will play host to the 2015 Subway Super Series come November. The city of Halifax will hold the last game of the series on November 19, 2015. The game will be played at 8:00pm Atlantic time at the Scotiabank Centre.

This is the second time that the Mooseheads have hosted the super series, the first being back in 2003. Former players that have been on Team QMJHL rosters include; Brent Andrews (2012), Logan MacMillan (2007 & 2008), Jonathan Drouin (2012 & 2013), Andrew Bodnarchuk (2007), Nathan MacKinnon (2011 & 2012), Ryan Hillier (2007), Zach Fucale (2012, 2013 & 2014), MacKenzie Weegar (2013). We'll have to wait until the beginning of November to see who will be the next Herd players named to Team QMJHL.

Here is the full schedule:
Game 1 - Monday November 9 at Kelowna, BC
Game 2 - Tuesday November 10 at Kamloops, BC
Game 3 - Thursday November 12 at Owen Sound, ON
Game 4 - Monday November 16 at Windsor, ON
Game 5 - Tuesday November 17 at Rouyn-Noranda, QC
Game 6 - Thursday November 19 at Halifax, NS

For the press release click here.

Russia Wins 2014 Super Series

Two days after winning a pivotal game 5 to close the points gap, Team QMJHL was unable to win the 2014 Subway Super Series losing on Thursday night 3-2 to Team Russia. The victory gave Russia it's third Series title, winning 11-7 in points.

Subway Super Series logo
via theqnews.net

The Q made it a game scoring it's second goal of the third period at 12:31 but the damage had already been done earlier in the game with Russia taking a 3-0 lead going into the last 20 minutes. Igor Shestyorkin stood tall in the last few minutes of the game when the QMJHL were pressing hard to tie the game up and force overtime. Once again, Team QMJHL had a period where they only had one shot (second period) but the team led the shots category last night in Rimouski, with 27 shots to Russia's 21 overall.

Halifax Mooseheads goaltender did not play in this second QMJHL-Russia game. Instead, Philippe Desrosiers of the Game 6 hosts Rimouski Oceanic made the start.

For the game summary on CHL.ca, click here.

Click here for CHL's recap.

Congratulations to Russia on winning the Series. The next step for the young players who were apart of the 3 different Canadian Hockey League teams is waiting. All 60-plus players will be hoping to get that call that they ahve made the Canadian National Junior team that will play in Toronto and Montreal after Christmas during the 2015 World Juniors.

Fucale Makes 40 Saves in Win

It's not very often you need to make 22 saves in one period but that is what current Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Zachary Fucale had to do last night in Bathurst, NB. Fucale was in the New Brunswick town as part of Team QMJHL for the Subway Super Series between the Q and the Russian junior team. The Quebec team was able to get out to a 3-0 lead 25:33 into the game on Tuesday night. After 2 periods, it was 3-1 QMHJL over Russia with shots close at 19-17 in favour of Russia. QMJHL decided to sit back and protect their lead instead of attacking the Russian net and get a bigger lead. Because of the non-attack, and 4 penalties in the last period, Fucale made 22 saves while Igor Shestyorkin made his one and only save in the third at about 15 minutes into the period. Final shots were 41 for Russia and 18 for the QMJHL.

One of 40 saves by Mooseheads goaltender Zach Fucale
Photo courtesy of: CHL twitter account

The outstanding performance by Fucale and the early goals gave the Q the victory and closed the points gap between the CHL teams and the Russian team to 1. Russia now leads the Super Series in points 8-7. The two teams will meet again on Thursday evening in Rimouski, Quebec with the winner of the game in regulation taking the Series. Should game 6 be won by the Q in overtime or a shootout, I believe the Series will end in a tie.

Congrats to Zach and Team QMJHL on the victory. Keep it going tomorrow night in Rimouski.

For CHL.ca's recap of the game, click here.

For the game summary click here.

Check out Scott MacIntosh's recap here.

Tuesday Thoughts

Here are some news and thoughts to get your Tuesday night started.

INJURIES
Cavan Fitzgerald is still out with a broken patella (knee cap) but will likely be back either this weekend or next when the Mooseheads are on the road. Two injuries came from this past weekend's games. Rookie Brett Crossley sustained a concussion in Friday night's win over provincial rivals after getting elbowed in the head by Cape Breton's Pierre-Luc Dubois at Scotiabank Centre. Dubois has since been suspended until further notice. The next evening in Sydney, captain Ryan Falkenham suffered a lower body injury. Falkenham will be out 6-8 weeks.

Photo via halifaxmooseheads.ca

EHLERS
Danish forward Nikolaj Ehlers will be at the Joe Howe Superstore on Wednesday night to sign autographs. It was announced a couple weeks ago that he is among the 24 CHL players who have hockey cards in select boxes of Post Foods Canada cereals. Ehlers will be at the Superstore between 6:30 and 7:30 tomorrow night.


FUCALE
Mooseheads goaltender Zachary Fucale is among the 20 or so Quebec Major Junior Hockey League players that will be playing against the Russian juniors this week. The two teams will play a game tonight in Bathurst, New Brunswick and than again on Thursday night in Rimouski, Quebec. It was announced earlier today that Fucale will get the start for Team QMJHL. You can watch both games on Sportsnet beginning at 8pm Atlantic time.

CHRISTMOOSE SKATE
It hasn't been officially announced but if you check on the team website, Halifax has put up a new event; the Christmoose Skate. The event will take pl

Photo courtesy of:
Vincent Ethier on QMJHL's twitter

ace December 16th from 6:30 until 8pm and is only open to full and 15 game season ticket holders. It's a fun evening where fans can skate with the team and get pictures and autographs. Bring the family and have a great night.

UP NEXT
Your Halifax Mooseheads will play twice this weekend, both at home. Frederik Gauthier and the Rimouski Oceanic will be in town for their first trip to the Scotiabank Centre on Saturday. Puck drops will be 7pm at the Scotiabank Centre. While Ivan Barbashev, Vladimir Tkachev and the Moncton Wildcats makes another visit to Moose Country on Sunday evening. Puck drops at 4pm.

UPDATE: QMJHL Names Subway Series Roster

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League has released its Subway Series roster that will play in Bathurst, NB on November 18 and Rimouski, QC on November 20.

In the past few years, the Halifax Mooseheads have had a couple of players on Team QMJHL. This season only one Herd player was named to the team. Congratulations to Halifax's favourite goaltender; Zach Fucale being named as one of the goalies for the Q. The Mooseheads broke the news earlier today on their site.

I'm not sure why there are no other Halifax Mooseheads players listed on the roster but we shouldn't take away from the achievement Zach has made yet again.

The Rimouski Oceanic have the most players listed on the roster at 4, while both the Charlottetown Islanders and Moncton Wildcats do not have any players listed. Congrats to all players. You can watch the whole series (6 games) on Sportsnet.

Here is the full roster
G Philippe Desrosiers RIM
G Zachary Fucale HAL
D Olivier Leblanc SNB
D Alexandre Carrier GAT
D Ryan Graves QUE
D Nicolas Meloche BAC
D Guillaume Brisebois BAT
D Dylan Labbe SHA
D Samuel Morin RIM
D Jeremy Roy SHE
F Alexandre Alain GAT
F Yan Pavel Laplante VIC
F Jeremy Gregoire BAC
F Joey Ratelle DRU
F Francis Perron ROU
F Anthony Deluca RIM
F Nicolas Aube-Kubel VDO
F Frederik Gauthier RIM
F Clark Bishop CAP
F Laurent Dauphin CHI
F Daniel Audette SHE
F Nicolas Roy CHI
F Julien Pelletier CAP
F Anthony Beauvillier SHA

CHL names Subway Series hosts

The Canadian Hockey League has announced the hosts for the 2014 Subway Series which will be held in 6 cities over ten days in the middle of November.

Toronto, ON – The Canadian Hockey League in association with SUBWAY® Restaurants along with the Western Hockey League, the Ontario Hockey League, and the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League today announced five of the six Canadian host centres for the 2014 SUBWAY® Super Series to be played November 10-20, 2014.

The six-game series, which features regional teams of Canadian National Junior Team candidates competing against the Russian National Junior Team, opens for the first time with two games hosted by the WHL beginning in Saskatoon, SK, home of the Blades, on Monday November 10, with the second WHL host site for Game 2 on Tuesday November 11 still to be determined.  The series shifts to the OHL who will maintain the middle leg of the series with Game 3 to be hosted by the Peterborough Petes on Thursday November 13, followed by Game 4 hosted by the Kingston Frontenacs on Monday November 17.  For the first time next season the competition will end in the QMJHL with Game 5 hosted by the Acadie-Bathurst Titan on Tuesday November 18, followed by the Game 6 series finale to be hosted by the Rimouski Oceanic on Thursday November 20.

“On behalf of the Canadian Hockey League we look forward to bringing the SUBWAY® Super Series to CHL communities for the 12^th straight season next November,” said CHL President David Branch.  “The CHL would like to thank title sponsor SUBWAY® Restaurants and partner Hockey Canada for their continued support as well as broadcast partners Sportsnet and TVA Sports as we showcase many of the league’s best players to CHL fans across the country in advance of the World Junior Championship hosted by Montreal and Toronto.”

The SUBWAY® Super Series has been an integral part of the identification process for Team Canada for the past 11 years prior to the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship.  In each of the last four seasons the series has been decided in the final game with the CHL emerging victorious for the ninth time in 2013 winning by a 10-8 margin in points.  Team Canada also faced Russia for the fourth straight time at the World Junior Championship this season in Malmo, Sweden, with Russia earning the bronze medal with a 2-1 victory over Canada.  Russia’s roster featured 10 players from the 2013 SUBWAY® Super Series along with Mikhail Grigorenko who participated in the event in 2011 and 2012, while Canada’s roster included 21 players from last year’s series along with Mathew Dumba who also played for Team WHL in 2011 and 2012.

“For the sixth year running, SUBWAY® Restaurants  will join hockey fans across Canada in cheering on our country’s top major junior players,” said Kathleen Bell, Director of National Marketing, SUBWAY® Restaurants of Canada. “As the Official Training Restaurant of the CHL, we are delighted to lend our support to the SUBWAY® Super Series and continue to fuel CHL fans and athletes across the country.”

2014 will mark the first time that Kingston and Acadie-Bathurst will host a SUBWAY® Super Series contest.  Rimouski hosted in the first year of competition back in 2003 with Oceanic star Sidney Crosby earning player of the game honours with three assists for Team QMJHL in the 6-3 victory.  Peterborough and Saskatoon both hosted the event in 2005 with a pair of hometown heroes leading their respective leagues to victory.  The Petes’ Liam Reddox scored two goals as player of the game in a 5-1 OHL win, and the Blades’ Devin Setoguchi scored a hat-trick as player of the game for Team WHL in the 9-2 triumph.

All six games of the SUBWAY ® Super Series will be broadcast nationally on Sportsnet and TVA Sports.  The 2014 SUBWAY® Super Series is supported by CHL associate sponsors Bank of Montreal and Old Dutch.

2014 SUBWAY® Super Series Schedule of Games:
Game 1 – Monday November 10 at Saskatoon, SK
Game 2 – Tuesday November 11 at TBD
Game 3 – Thursday November 13 at Peterborough, ON
Game 4 – Monday November 17 at Kingston, ON
Game 5 – Tuesday November 18 at Bathurst, NB
Game 6 – Thursday November 20 at Rimouski, QC

For more information please visit www.subwaysuperseries.ca.


Source: http://www.subwaysuperseries.ca/article/chl-announces-2014-subway-super-series-hosts

Check back here later in the summer and the first few months of next season when more Subway Series news will come your way. Will we see another Moosehead player named to a team for the fourth straight year or will the streak end? Well we will have to wait. Congratulations to all the host cities named especially the Quebec league teams; Acadie-Bathurst Titan and Rimouski Oceanic.

Q takes Game 1

In the first game of the 2013 Subway Super Series, which is between Hockey Canada's three junior leagues and select junior age Russian players, Canada came out on top with the biggest help from Halifax Moosehead Jonathan Drouin.

The first three goals were scored by Quebec Major Junior Hockey League players but the score was only 2-1 for Team QMJHL halfway though the game. Both Q goals in the first 24 minutes were scored by Charles Hudon. Russia's only goal in 2 periods was scored by Moncton Wildcats player Ivan Barbashev. Vladimir Tkachev tied it up at two a piece just over the 6 minute mark in the third.

It looked like the first game would be going to a shootout, no overtime games in this series, but with just over four minutes left Anthony Mantha (surprise surprise) gave the Gatineau fans a feeling of happiness to go home. Of course there was no gaurentee that Quebec would skate away victors unless Zach Fucale continued to stay strong and he did. Drouin assisted on three Team QMJHL goals in the game.

Goals
11:56 QMJ Charles Hudon (1) | A: Drouin
24:02 QMJ Charles Hudon (2) | A: Drouin & Mantha
30:01 RUS Ivan Barbashev (1) | A: Gorbunov & Zykov
46:06 RUS Vladimir Tkachev (1) | A: Tikhonov & Garvrikov
55:53 QMJ Anthony Mantha (1) | A: Drouin & Hudon

Powerplay:  Russia 0-for-5    QMJHL 0-for-6
Goalies:  Ivan Nalimov v. Zach Fucale
Player of the Game:  Charles Hudon
Attendance:  3,252
Arena: Robert Guertin Centre (3,196)


STORIES
The Q News recap (english): Jonathan Drouin had three assists and Charles Hudon had a pair of goals as Team QMJHL beat the Russians 3-2 in the first game of the CHL Subway Series in Gatineau, Que.

qmjhl.ca's recap: Tonight the Under-20 Russian delegation of All-Stars was facing the best of what the QMJHL had to offer in front of a capacity crowd at the Robert-Guertin Centre.

The Chronicle Herald's recap: Anthony Mantha scored the deciding goal, Charles Hudon scored twice and Jonathan Drouin picked up three assists to lead the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League to a 3-2 victory over Russia in the opening game of the Subway Super Series on Monday.

The Q News recap (french): Jonathan Drouin a eu trois passes et Charles Hudon eu une paire de buts et l’équipe de la LHJMQ a battu les Russes 3-2 dans le premier match de la Super Série Subway à Gatineau, au Québec .

The Series will continue in Sherbrooke for Game #2 on Wednesday night. Same time same television channel.

Subway Series starts tomorrow

The Subway Series starts tomorrow if you didn't know. It'll start in Gatineau on Monday when Team QMJHL take on the Russian Selects at 8:00pm Eastern time. Than on Wednesday the series shifts to Sherbrooke same time. Sportsnet will host all 6 games during he series. Team OHL will than take on the Selects in two games on Thursday and Monday November 25 in Oshawa and Sudbury respectively. Russia will travel out west to wrap up the series against Team WHL. Red Deer hosts the two teams on November 27th and Lethbridge will host the last game on November 28th.

Three Mooseheads players will be in attendance; Zach Fucale, Mackenzie Weegar and Jonathan Drouin. Head coach Dominique Ducharme will be helping Benoit Groulx coach Team QMJHL along with Eric Veilleux. Groulx is the head coach of the Gatineau Olympiques while Veileux coaches the Baie-Comeau Drakkar.

Drouin will be assisted by Charles Hudon, of the Chicoutimi Sagueneens, and Dillion Fournier of the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies.

The players were busy today in Gatineau. Fucale signed some Team QMJHL jerseys while Drouin had interview this evening.

I will have recaps of the two Quebec games and live tweets during the games. Follow The Q News for more coverage. I may have more coverage as the series moves west.

Herd Word

LEWIS
Trey Lewis was the odd man out when the Halifax Moosehads made their decision about their overagers on Tuesday. With Lewis injured and the only way for him to be 100% is to get surgery, which takes about 9 months to recover, the Moose decided to keep Brendan Duke as their third 20 year old. Trey returned home after the news and will now play for the Miramichi Timberwolves. He will be playing through the pain in the Maritime Junior A League as he is set to make his debut tonight against the Weeks Crushers in Pictou County.

Dan Robertson of Eastlink wrote a nice story about Trey's time in Halifax.

CAPTAINS
Jonathan Drouin has been named the Team QMJHL captain for the Subway Super Series. Charles Hudon, Dillion Fournier and Felix Girard were named the alternates this afternoon. The team will start the 6 game series on Monday and play again on Wednesday.

BMO RANKINGS
Your Moosehads returned to the top 10 this week in the BMO CHL rankings after being left out in week 8. With 4 straight wins the Moose were ranked #10 nationally.

SUBWAY SERIES
Talking about the Subway Series, I will have recaps and possibly even previews of the two QMJHL versus Russia games when it gets underway next week in Gatineau. All games will be broadcasted on Sportnet television starting at 8pm Atlantic time for the two Quebec ones.

Herd Word

FRIDAY
This Friday, your Halifax Mooseheads will take on the Moncton Wildcats in a special event game. The boys will wear special Military jerseys during the game which will than be raffled off like the pink jerseys a couple weeks ago. This is because it is DND Appreciation Night at the Metro Centre. The game will be shown on national television so puck drop won't be until 8pm.

sneak peak of the jersey from @HFXMooseheads on twitter

ULTIMATE FAN
The BMO Ultilmate CHL fan contest is back!! Wear your best colors, jerseys and all around fan apparel. The Halifax Mooseheads date is November 22 when the Herd take on the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at 7pm. For full contest details click here.

EARLY SUCCESS
Here's an interesting article in the Metro about the early success of the Mooseheads who are now 6 points ahead of the Charlottetown Islanders, who started the season winning 5 straight.

MOOSE IN THE PROS
Here are how the former Herd players are doing in the pros (ECHL, AHL & NHL) so far this season:
Nathan MacKinnon (Colorado) 13gp - 2 goals & 7 assists 29 shots - 5th in team scoring (Story)
Stefan Fournier (Hamilton) 5gp - 0 points 10 shots -1 rating - 6 penalty minutes
Alexandre Grenier (Utica) 8gp - 1 goal & 5 assists 11 shots - 3rd in team scoring
Andrew Bodnarchuk (Manchester) 12gp - 3 goals & 4 assists 22 shots - 7th in team scoring
Martin Frk (Grand Rapids) 6gp - 0 points 3 shots -3 rating - 6 penalty minutes (Story)
Konrad Abeltshauser (Worcester) 5gp - 0 points 11 shots -5 rating
Stephen MacAulay (Wheeling) 5gp - 1 assist 3 shots -4 rating - 8 penalty minutes

SUBWAY SERIES
All three league teams for the Subway Super Series have been announced when Team WHL announced their roster today in league with the Lethbridge Hurricanes and Red Deer Rebels.
Team QMJHL roster. November 18 in Gatineau and November 20 in Sherbrooke
Team OHL roster. November 21 in Oshawa and November 25 in Sudbury
Team WHL roster. November 27 in Red Deer and November 28 in Lethbridge

News & Notes from October 29

Here's some news that came out of the Canadian Hockey League, mostly the Q and Halifax, the past few days.

• Darcy Ashley (Halifax), Charles-Eric Legare (Cape Breton) and Alexandre Belanger (Rouyn-Noranda) were named the TELUS three stars for the week ending October 27, 2013. For the full story click here.
• The roster for Team QMJHL for the 2013 Subway Super Series was announced this morning. Check out the roster here. Zach Fucale, Mac Weegar and Jonathan Drouin were named to the team.
• Head coach and General Manager of the Saint John Sea Dogs was released of this duties today. Press release.  
• The CHL Player and Goaltender of the Week were announced today. Darcy Ashley of your Halifax Mooseheads was named the player of the week with 8 points. While Kelowna Rockets Jordon Cooke was named the goaltender of the week.

The BMO Top 10 Rankings for week 7 will be announced tomorrow. Soon we should be seeing our Moose on the list.
Nikolaj Ehlers has taken over the team scoring after recording 4 points in two weekend games. He is second in the Canadian Hockey League's rookie scoring.
Zach Fucale leads the league and the CHL in goaltender wins with 11 in 15 games played.
Pink in the Rink games have been a success. Plenty of people came out to the Halifax pink game with a special Trey Lewis autographed pink jersey auctioned off for over $1250.
Two days until Halloween everyone. Lots of players wearing costumes to school already starting on Monday.

Check back tomorrow afternoon for my preview of the Halifax-Gatineau game Wednesday night.

QMJHL Subway Series Roster Announced

Press release.

The Sherbrooke Phoenix and Gatineau Olypiques along with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Canadian Hockey League announced the roster for the 2013 Subway Series. The two Team QMJHL versus Team Russia games will be held on November 18 in Sherbrooke and November 20 in Gatineau. Last week the coaches for each leagues team was announced.  

Just like last year 4 Halifax Mooseheads have been named as part of the team. Unlike last year, the Herd will have a member at each position on the team. Dom Ducharme was named the assistant coach, Zach Fucale is one of 2 goaltenders, second year defenseman MacKenzie Weegar will help protect his goalie while Jonathan Drouin will look to help Team QMJHL score. Congratulations to the four players of your Mooseheads who made the team. 

Other names include; league leading scorer Anthony Mantha of Val-d'Or, Dillon Fournier of Rouyn who is the younger brother of former Moose Stefan, suspended Charles Hudon of Chicoutimi and stellar Saint John goaltender Sebastien Auger who has faced the most shots so far this season. 

Team QMJHL has a 10-7-3 record against the Russian Selects in the ten year event which started in 2003 on November 17 in London, Ontario. November 20 was the first game between the QMJHL and Russia in which the Selects beat the QMJHL all-stars in Halifax 3 to 2. The CHL has been dominte over Russia in this tournament as the CHL teams have a total record of 44-11-4 with 256 goals for and 150 against. Russia is 15-41-3 so far winning only one year in 2010.

Full roster:
GOALTENDERS
Auger, Sébastien
Fucale, Zachary

DEFENSEMEN
Vanier, Alexis (BAC)
Fournier, Dillon (ROU)
Graves, Ryan (CHA)
Weegar, MacKenzie (HAL)
Hachè, Justin (CAP)
Morin, Samuel (RIM)
Walcott, Daniel (BLB)

FORWARDS
Mantha, Anthony (VDO)
Hudon, Charles (CHI)
Roy, Marc-Olivier (BLB)
Duclair, Anthony (QUE)
Deluca, Anthony (RIM)
Girard, Félix (BAC)
Gauthier, Frédérik (RIM)
Dauphin, Laurent (CHI)
Drouin, Jonathan (HAL)
Carrier, William (CAP)
Gregoire, Jeremy (BAC)
Audette, Daniel (SHE)
Clapperton, Christopher (BLB)
Poirier, Émile (GAT)

Subway Series coaches announced

The head coaches and assistants have been named for the 2013 Subway Series which will be held in the second half of November.

Team QMJHL will be headed by Gatineau Olympiques coach Benoit Groulx. DJ Smith (Oshawa Generals) and Dale Hunter (London Knights) will split the role for Team OHL and Brent Sutter of the Red Deer Rebels will coach Team WHL.

Groulx will be assisted on the bench by our very own Dominique Ducharme when the Q team takes on Russia in Gatineau and Sherbrooke on November 18 and 20th respectively. The game in Oshawa on November 21st will be normal for the Gens fans as Smith will be joined on the bench by his coaching staff, Roger Hunt and Paul McFarland. November 25th will see Team OHL take on the Russians in Sudbury for the second Ontario game with Wolves coach Paul Fixter beside Hunter. Ryan McGill of the Kootenay Ice will assist Sutter for coaching Team WHL on November 27 in Red Deer and November 28 in Lethbridge.

Dale Hunter, D.J. Smith and Dom Ducharme were all on the bench together when Canada's U-18 National Team captured the Gold medal at the Ivan Hlinka tournament this past August.

I'll have coverage of the Quebec games at the very least. When the rosters for each team are announced I will post them here.

Photo courtesy of lethbridgehurricanes.com

Subway Series hosts announced

The Canadian Hockey League, along with Subway and the other 3 leagues, announced yesterday the hosts for the 2013 Subway Super Series which will be played November 18 to 28, 2013.

Each of the three leagues host two games in two different cities. Once again the Russian Selects will play the QMJHL all-stars in the first two games followed by the OHL and finally the WHL. The Gatineau Olympiques and Sherbrooke Phoenix will be the host cities for Quebec. The OHL hosts will be the Oshawa Generals and Sudbury Wolves while the Red Deer Rebels and Lethbridge will be the final two hosts. The all star teams for each league contains players from that league who are selected, mainly candidates from each league who have a chance to play for the Canadian World Junior Team. The Russian Selects are players from the country's Junior Team including some of the Russians in the CHL.

The full schedule is as follows:
November 18 - Quebec vs. Russia - Gatineau
November 20 - Quebec vs. Russia - Sherbrooke
November 21 - Ontario vs. Russia - Oshawa
November 25 - Ontario vs. Russia - Sudbury
November 27 - Western vs. Russia - Red Deer
November 28 - Western vs. Russia - Lethbridge

For the full press release click here.