Drummondville

Um, to come to Moncton.

Uh, I think they play in Halifax, and then they head to Drummondville, if I was checking the schedule right, 'cause I was doing some due diligence, 'cause, well, it's Scotties.

Um, so they could jump on a Via Rail from Halifax and take a train and kinda do that team building on a long, on a long road trip.

But I've never taken the train.

some of the other teams in there, it looks like it's gonna be Val d'Or and then everybody else, but, um, as you've gone through some of this, I mean, Blaineville's gonna take quite a bit of a step back.

Shawinigan and Sherbrooke, they kinda seem like the wild cards in that Western Conference.

Is that how you see it, where it's Val d'Or and everybody else, and Shawinigan and Sherbrooke hope to surprise? Or is there more depth than we're thinking, kinda like last year where we just thought it was gonna be Blaineville and then all of a sudden Marin was in there, Drummondville was in there, like top talented teams.

Do you, how do you see the Western Conference kinda playing out?

Je l'ai vu jouer junior avec les Remparts de Québec.

Il y a un soir donné, j'étais à Drummondville avec deux de mes trois enfants.

Il en avait mis trois dedans.

C'était spectaculaire.

So he was born in Niagara Falls, Ontario.

which at the time was called Drummondville in 1883.

So he was actually Canadian.

Then his family moved to the New York side.

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Drummondville, Quebec, heavily reliant on manufacturing steel products, aluminum fabrication, machinery, and furniture, tops the list with eighteen-point-seven percent exposure.

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Then we've got news from Louis-Felix Bourque.

He's gonna wear an A for Drummondville this year.

Yep.

Sneaky nice rookie season for him last year.

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Drummondville, who had him in.

Yeah.

He had him, he was in Drummondville, like a week before he was gonna sign.

Decided not to, went into the draft, picked up by Moncton.

Like it's, there's so many things, um, so many factors like that, that, uh, that can happen and, uh, that's just the kind of world we're, that we're in right now.

He spent time in the Wild Ones, an adult gang, that then he made a pilgrimage to Montreal and impressed Hell's Angels there enough for them to make him Ontario's first member in 1982.

There was an early brush with death on September 8, 1984, when his Harley was struck by a car driven by a priest near Drummondville, Quebec.

He was in a convoy of bikers returning from a funeral while the priest was en route to the papal visit.

The priest escaped unscathed while Stanek lost two fingers and suffered horrible burns to his arms and face.

So at that time, when I was still a lad, one of the bottled water companies moved into our area.

Drummondville, where I lived, was 97% French speaking.

They came in with bottled water for the home, you know? And I think it was Hinkley and Schmidt, but it might have been another one.

I can't quite recall.

Quebec moving out.

Jaden Rousseau to Drummondville for 2027 second.

Halifax adding another 20.

Nathan Langwell for a third in 27 and 28.