The WHA Draft

[RyanM]

Hey this isn't Florida, It's Québec!! Where hockey lives and will lives forever! People will pay $60 to see the Nordiks if the Habs ain't playing, just as simple as that. A lot of people here in Québec like hockey in general but doesn't follow the Canadiens because they live in Québec and they are loyal Nordiques fans, this is the oppurtunity for them to get to the arena and cheer for a pro hockey team. There's not a lot of people who cares about the Q damnnit, It's a junior league!

Try feeding your crap to someone who does not know any better. Hockey in Quebec lives....for the Canadiens. The QMJHL is dieing in Quebec and without the 5 Maritime teams the league would be on life support. 5 of the 10 Quebec based teams averaged under 2000 fans last season(Victo, Drummondville, R-N, Val d'Or, Shawinigan) and 2 more barely averaged above 2000(Baie-Comeau and Chicoutimi) and the IHL and AHL both died rather quickly in Quebec City. Hell the memorial Cup was an embarrassment in Quebec in 2003, TONS of empty seats for games, no sellouts.

But I mean other then all that, the game is doing great...

 

[Teemu]

Ninth Round Selection Pos. 2003-04 Club
65. Québec Denis Hamel LW Ottawa (NHL)
66. Halifax David Ling RW Syracuse (AHL)
67. Detroit Todd Elik C Davos (Switzerland)
68. Hamilton Anson Carter C Los Angeles (NHL)
69. Toronto Scott Hartnell C Nashville (NHL)
70. Founders' franchise David Morrisette
71. Dallas Matt Herr C Providence (AHL)
72. Florida Rick Berry D Washington (NHL)

Tenth Round Selection Pos. 2003-04 Club
73. Florida Bob Boughner D Colorado (NHL)
74. Dallas Ron Hainsey D Montréal (NHL)
75. Founders' franchise Chris Therien D Dallas (NHL)
76. Toronto Mathieu Garon G Montréal (NHL)
77. Hamilton Rob Ray RW Ottawa (NHL)
78. Detroit Dmitri Yushkevich D Yaroslavl (Russia)
79. Halifax Peter Ferraro RW Springfield (AHL)
80. Québec Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre D Washington (NHL)

 

[Seabass]

104 Florida Carl Piler D

Heh. These people are terrible.

 

[Seabass]

Ninth Round Selection Pos. 2003-04 Club
65. Québec Denis Hamel LW Ottawa (NHL)
66. Halifax David Ling RW Syracuse (AHL)
67. Detroit Todd Elik C Davos (Switzerland)
68. Hamilton Anson Carter C Los Angeles (NHL)
69. Toronto Scott Hartnell C Nashville (NHL)
70. Founders' franchise David Morrisette
71. Dallas Matt Herr C Providence (AHL)
72. Florida Rick Berry D Washington (NHL)

Tenth Round Selection Pos. 2003-04 Club
73. Florida Bob Boughner D Colorado (NHL)
74. Dallas Ron Hainsey D Montréal (NHL)
75. Founders' franchise Chris Therien D Dallas (NHL)
76. Toronto Mathieu Garon G Montréal (NHL)
77. Hamilton Rob Ray RW Ottawa (NHL)
78. Detroit Dmitri Yushkevich D Yaroslavl (Russia)
79. Halifax Peter Ferraro RW Springfield (AHL)
80. Québec Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre D Washington (NHL)

http://www.detroitgladiators.com/rounds11_15.php

This one seems up to date.

 

[Blackshad]

Try feeding your crap to someone who does not know any better. Hockey in Quebec lives....for the Canadiens. The QMJHL is dieing in Quebec and without the 5 Maritime teams the league would be on life support. 5 of the 10 Quebec based teams averaged under 2000 fans last season(Victo, Drummondville, R-N, Val d'Or, Shawinigan) and 2 more barely averaged above 2000(Baie-Comeau and Chicoutimi) and the IHL and AHL both died rather quickly in Quebec City. Hell the memorial Cup was an embarrassment in Quebec in 2003, TONS of empty seats for games, no sellouts.

But I mean other then all that, the game is doing great...

The Cataractes had averaged like 3000 people 2 year ago when they had a VERY GOOD TEAM for a VERY SMALL arena. Last year they had a boring team so its normal they had less spectators
The junior hockey goes really well here. God.. they even want to build A BIGGER ARENA! So please, go whine on another board.
And i went to the memorial cup and there was so many people in there this was incredible. The arena was full we were in the last seat to the top.

 

[15+17=Cup]

There was what, 10 spelling errors on there already...Karel Piler, Alexandra Perezhogin, honestly do they even know how to spell?

Eleventh Round Selection Pos.
2003-04 Club
81.
Québec Bruno St-Jacques D
Carolina (NHL)
82.
Halifax Chris Ferraro C Springfield (AHL)
83.
Detroit Brad Tiley D Milwaukee (AHL)
84.
Hamilton Scott Ferguson D Edmonton (NHL)
85.
Toronto Norm Milley RW Buffalo (NHL)
86.
Founders' franchise Jim Vandermeer D Chicago (NHL)
87.
Dallas Chris Armstrong D Anaheim (NHL)
88.
Florida Brandon Smith D Bridgeport (AHL)

 

[Reilly311]

How many Kariyas is the detroit team going to draft?

 

[Teemu]

86. Founders' franchise Jim Vandermeer D Chicago (NHL)

Apparently not aware he just signed a new contract with the hawks...

 

[Teemu]

Heh. These people are terrible.

Thats a new low

But the website people just might not know how to spell it

But then you'd think it would be Carel Peelash

 

[RyanM]

The Cataractes had averaged like 3000 people 2 year ago when they had a VERY GOOD TEAM for a VERY SMALL arena. Last year they had a boring team so its normal they had less spectators
The junior hockey goes really well here. God.. they even want to build A BIGGER ARENA! So please, go whine on another board.

From the offical QMJHL website.

And I know that Shawinigan is not going anywhere, but the other 4 will be dead soon if attendance does not pick up. 1 of them will probably be in Saint John within the next 2 years.

If you think the league is doing well in Quebec then you better find a way to prove it because so far 4 teams have moved away from Quebec and a couple more could be doing the same very soon and attendance just keeps getting worse and worse.

 

[Blackshad]

From the offical QMJHL website.

And I know that Shawinigan is not going anywhere, but the other 4 will be dead soon if attendance does not pick up. 1 of them will probably be in Saint John within the next 2 years.

If you think the league is doing well in Quebec then you better find a way to prove it because so far 4 teams have moved away from Quebec and a couple more could be doing the same very soon and attendance just keeps getting worse and worse.

Must be mainly because of the Senior league here.
You know, the league that maritime and everywhere in Canada doesnt have.
They have more spectators than the Q!
The semi-Pro league of Québec

 

[ForsbergForever]

Picks

64. Québec-P.J. Stock
59. Founders' franchise-Doug Gilmour
77.Hamilton-Rob Ray
100. Hamilton-Jim Cummins
107. Founders' franchise-Kirk Muller
108. Toronto-Doug Doull

These guys are eityher too old or too bad to play decent hockey, then again its the WHA where dreams go to die.

 

[RyanM]

Must be mainly because of the Senior league here.
You know, the league that maritime and everywehere in Canada doesnt have.
They have more spectators than the Q!

I'm aware of how well the Senior league is doing, but the QMJHL is a league with a lot of tradition and Quebecers are just letting their league die in their province in order to watch the semi pro league. It's pretty sad.

 

[Lard_Lad]

70. Founders' franchise - Dave Morissette, LW, Did Not Play

Huh? According to hockeydb, he hasn't played in three years, and the last time he did, he split the season between England and the WPHL. Why draft a guy like that? Just give him a tryout in camp.

 

[LaLaLaprise]

Try feeding your crap to someone who does not know any better. Hockey in Quebec lives....for the Canadiens. The QMJHL is dieing in Quebec and without the 5 Maritime teams the league would be on life support. 5 of the 10 Quebec based teams averaged under 2000 fans last season(Victo, Drummondville, R-N, Val d'Or, Shawinigan) and 2 more barely averaged above 2000(Baie-Comeau and Chicoutimi) and the IHL and AHL both died rather quickly in Quebec City. Hell the memorial Cup was an embarrassment in Quebec in 2003, TONS of empty seats for games, no sellouts.

But I mean other then all that, the game is doing great...

EXACTLY!!! Good post.

 

[LaLaLaprise]

70. Founders' franchise - Dave Morissette, LW, Did Not Play

Huh? According to hockeydb, he hasn't played in three years, and the last time he did, he split the season between England and the WPHL. Why draft a guy like that? Just give him a tryout in camp.

Drip the te on the end.

Dave Moriset is flordia panthers property.

 

[Lard_Lad]

Drip the te on the end.

Dave Moriset is flordia panthers property.

On their draft page, they've got it linked to the other Dave Morrisette, though. Maybe another typo.

 

[LaLaLaprise]

On their draft page, they've got it linked to the other Dave Morrisette, though. Maybe another typo.

Its the WHA, im expecting errors.

 

[15+17=Cup]

ROUND 12 SEL TEAM NAME POS
89 Florida Rod Davidson D
90 Dallas Derek Walser D
91 Founders' Jamie Pushor D
92 Toronto Garnett Exelby D
93 Hamilton Jim Dowd C
94 Detroit Jason Jaspers C
95 Halifax Jonathon Sims C
96 Québec Brandon Reid C
ROUND 13 SEL TEAM NAME POS
97 Québec Mathew Darche LW
98 Halifax Harold Druken C
99 Detroit Martin Kariya C/RW
100 Hamilton Jim Cummins RW
101 Toronto Todd Simpson D
102 Founders' Fred Braithwaite G
103 Dallas Andrew Hutchinson D
104 Florida Carl Piler D
ROUND 14 SEL TEAM NAME POS
105 Florida Darren Rumble D
106 Dallas Gavin Morgan C
107 Founders' Kirk Muller C
108 Toronto Doug Doull LW
109 Hamilton Brad Norton D
110 Detroit Darren Van Oene LW
111 Halifax Anders Myrvold D
112 Québec Joe Ruellier D

 

[chris_dub]

Does anybody know which team the "Founders Franchise" is??

 

[Teemu]

Does anybody know which team the "Founders Franchise" is??

As far as I know, its a franchise that is still looking for a city.

 

[chris_dub]

As far as I know, its a franchise that is still looking for a city.

OK. That's what I figured to.

 

[Teemu]

The Gladiator's page updated again - someone took trevor kidd :p

 

[hab 4ever]

OMG !!!
Forget about Bobby Hull 32 years ago, Québec selected Stéphane Richer...
He's back !!!

 

[BERTUZZINATION]

Does anybody know which team the "Founders Franchise" is??

I read somewhere it was looking like either Vancouver or Cincinatti...