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NHL players poised to participate at Redmen Summer Hockey tourney, Saturday

Published: 24 August 2012

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MONTREAL - The impending National Hockey League lockout has been a boon to the fourth annual Redmen 4-on-4 Summer Hockey tournament. A dozen players affiliated with NHL teams have signed up to take part in the one-day event on Saturday (Aug. 25) at McConnell Arena (3883 University) on the campus of ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ

Among the pros confirmed is David Desharnais of the Montreal Canadiens and Maxime Talbot of the Philadelphia Flyers.

Others include Philippe Dupuis (Pittsburgh), Bruno Gervais (Philadelphia), Pier-Marc Bouchard (Minnesota), Guillaume Desbiens (Calgary), Pier-Cédric Labrie (Tampa Bay), Jean-Philippe °äô³Ùé (Tampa Bay), François Bouchard (NY Rangers), Yann ³§²¹³Ü±¹Ã© (Vancouver), Nicolas Deslauriers (Los Angeles) and Nicolas Blanchard (Carolina).

The tourney will feature 10 teams, with up to 10 players apiece, including a maximum of four elite players per team. Elite participants are considered to be anyone who played last season at the university level or higher. ¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ players and coaches will serve as captains for each squad.

Mini-games (28-minutes, running time) are slated all day, beginning with the opener at 9 a.m. and culminating with the tourney's gold medal game at 9:45 p.m.

The format is a three-game round-robin, with the top four teams advancing to the playoff round, composed of a sudden-death semifinal and Ìýfinal games.

Admission to watch all games is free of charge.

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2012 REDMEN SUMMER TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE

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Time Game Team 1 Team 2
9:00 AM 1 Picard-Hooper Therrien
9:45 AM 2 Bourgeois Morin
10:30 AM 3 Turcotte ³§Ã©²µ³Ü¾±²Ô
11:15 AM 4 Langelier-Parent Jacob
12:00 PM 5 Belzile D-Houde
12:45 PM 6 Therrien ³§Ã©²µ³Ü¾±²Ô
1:30 PM 7 Bourgeois Jacob
2:15 PM 8 Langelier-Parent Morin
3:00 PM 9 Picard-Hooper Belzile
3:45 PM 10 D-Houde Turcotte
4:30 PM 11 Therrien Morin
5:15 PM 12 Picard-Hooper Jacob
6:00 PM 13 ³§Ã©²µ³Ü¾±²Ô Belzile
6:45 PM 14 Bourgeois D-Houde
7:30 PM 15 Turcotte Langelier-Parent
8:15 PM 16 1st Place 4th Place
9:00 PM 17 2nd Place 3rd Place
9:45 PM 18 Winner 16 Winner 17




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Earl Zukerman

Communications Officer

Athletics & Recreation

¿´Æ¬ÊÓƵ University

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