Sherbrooke Saint-Francois
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Sherbrooke Saint-François
Founded 1996
Home ice 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....

Based in Sherbrooke, Quebec
Colours Dark blue, White and Army Green
League Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey
Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey
The Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey was founded in 2004 and is a low-level professional league based in the Canadian province of Quebec. It was called the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League from 1996 until it turned pro in 2004...

Head coach Eric Dandeneault
General manager Eric Dandeneault
captain Yannick Tremblay
Yannick Tremblay
Yannick Tremblay is a professional ice hockey defenceman who currently plays for the Graz 99ers in the Erste Bank Eishockey Liga...


The Sherbrooke Saint-François is a minor league
Minor league
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities. This term is used in North America with regard to several organizations competing in...

 professional ice hockey
Ice hockey
Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team based in Sherbrooke, 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....

. The team is part of the minor professional league Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey
Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey
The Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey was founded in 2004 and is a low-level professional league based in the Canadian province of Quebec. It was called the Quebec Semi-Pro Hockey League from 1996 until it turned pro in 2004...

 (LNAH). The Saint-Francois plays 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....

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In the past, they were known as the Windsor Papetiers and the Windsor Lacroix. They won the Futura Cup
Futura Cup
The Futura Cup is the trophy awarded annually to champions of the LNAH , a minor pro league based in the Canadian province of Quebec. It was first awarded after the 1996-97 season...

 in 2005-2006, beating the Thetford Mines Prolab in six games of a best of 7. Sherbrooke also won the season title in 2009-2010 . Over the last 5 seasons they made in the league final 3 times.
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