The Sherbrooke Castors or Sherbrooke Beavers (in English) was the name of two different junior ice hockey

Junior ice hockey

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 teams in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

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. Both franchises played at the Palais des Sports

Palais des Sports (Sherbrooke)

The Palais des Sports is a 5,328-seat multi-purpose arena in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada. It was built in 1965. Starting in 2012, this arena will be home to the Sherbrooke Phoenix of the QMJHL....

 in Sherbrooke, Quebec

Quebec

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Original Castors

The Sherbrooke Castors (1969-1982) moved to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Quebec

Quebec

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 in 1982, named the Saint-Jean Castors. In 1989 they were renamed the Saint-Jean Lynx

Saint-Jean Lynx

Saint-Jean Lynx were a junior ice hockey team which played from 1989 to 1995 in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They played at the Colisée Isabelle-Brasseur. In 1982 they moved from Sherbrooke and were formerly the Sherbrooke Castors. They were known as the Saint-Jean Castors from 1982 until...

. In 1995 the team moved to Rimouski, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

 to become the Rimouski Océanic

Rimouski Océanic

The Rimouski Océanic are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League . The franchise was granted for the 1969–70 season...

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This original Castors franchise won the President's Cup

President's Cup (QMJHL)

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 in 1975, 1977 and 1982. The second incarnation never won. The Castors played in the Memorial Cup

Memorial Cup

The Memorial Cup is a junior ice hockey club championship trophy awarded annually to the Canadian Hockey League champion. It is awarded following a four-team, round robin tournament between a host team and the champions of the CHL's three member leagues: the Ontario Hockey League , Quebec Major...

 in those three years, and came closest to winning in 1982, when they lost in the tournament final to the Kitchener Rangers

Kitchener Rangers

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Sherbrooke Faucons/Castors

The second Sherbrooke Castors team (1998-2003), originally the Trois-Rivières Draveurs

Trois-Rivières Draveurs

The Trois-Rivières Draveurs were a junior ice hockey team playing in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They played at the Colisée de Trois-Rivières, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec. The team was originally known as the Trois-Rivières Ducs and were a founding member of the QMJHL in 1969...

, franchise moved to Sherbrooke in 1992 as the Sherbrooke Faucons ("Falcons"). The Faucons were renamed to Castors in 1998 and moved to Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine

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 in 2003, to be renamed the Lewiston Maineiacs

Lewiston MAINEiacs

The Lewiston Maineiacs were a junior ice hockey team of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League based in Lewiston, Maine. The team played its home games at the Androscoggin Bank Colisée. They were the second QMJHL team in the United States, and the only one to play a full season...

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NHL alumni

The following Castors/Faucons later played in the National Hockey League

National Hockey League

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