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BOUCHERVILLE, Thursday, March 18, 2010 – The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League today announced the winners of the offensive, defensive and rookie player of the month awards for March. The players were chosen by a committee mandated by the League.

Sean Couturier gets the nod on offence after recording five goals and seven assists in five Drummondville Voltigeurs wins. Furthermore, he posted an excellent +11 rating and won 52.4% of his face-offs. Couturier finished atop the scoring race with 96 points, becoming only the eighth 17-year-old to accomplish the feat in QMJHL history.

Quebec Remparts goaltender Louis Domingue gets the hardware on defence after winning four of his five starts. Domingue played 290 minutes, stopping 116 of the 123 shots he faced. He finished the month with a 1.45 goals-against-average and .943 save percentage. Moreover, he recorded a shutout.

Acadie-Bathurst Titan backstop Guillaume Nadeau is the rookie of the month after collecting three wins in as many starts while posting a 2.33 goals-against-average and .914 save percentage. All three of his wins were recorded against the Halifax Mooseheads. The Titan registered five wins in their last ten regular season games.

Gilbert and Randazzo win TELUS Player of the Week awards

BOUCHERVILLE, Monday, March 15, 2010 – Acadie-Bathurst Titan forward David Gilbert and Drummondville Voltigeurs defenseman Andrew Randazzo today were named the TELUS offensive and defensive players of the week (March 8 to 14).

Gilbert scored five goals and added two assists in three games for the Titan. Moreover, he posted a +2 rating. The Châteauguay native played his best game of the week on Friday, recording a hat-trick, including the game-winner, in a 6-4 win over the Mooseheads. The Chicago Blackhawks’ 2009 seventh round pick has collected ten points in his last six games.

Gabriel Dumont (Voltigeurs), Philip-Michaël Devos (Tigres) and Sean Couturier (Voltigeurs) were also considered.

Andrew Randazzo gets the nod on defence after recording six assists in three Voltigeurs wins. Furthermore, he posted an excellent +7 rating. The Hamilton native enjoyed his best game of the week on Sunday, registering three assists in a 7-0 victory over the Lewiston MAINEiacs. Randazzo has points in his last four contests.

Louis Domingue (Remparts), Jake Allen (Voltigeurs) and Samuel Groulx (Tigres) were also in the running.

Guy Carbonneau named head coach of Under-18 team

CALGARY, Tuesday, March 16, 2010 – Hockey Canada announced that Guy Carbonneau will be the head coach of Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 Team for the 2010 IIHF World Under-18 Championship, April 13-23 in Minsk and Bobruisk, Belarus.

It was also announced that George Burnett, head coach/general manager of the OHL’s Belleville Bulls, and Rob Sumner, head coach of the WHL’s Seattle Thunderbirds, have been named assistant coaches.

The 2010 IIHF World Under-18 Championship will mark Carbonneau’s second appearance behind the Team Canada bench; he served as assistant coach at the 2001 IIHF World Championship in Germany, where Canada finished ninth.

A native of Sept-Îles, Que., Carbonneau spent parts of three seasons (2006-09) as head coach of the NHL’s Montreal Canadiens, and currently works as a colour commentator for CBC’s Hockey Night in Canada. He was also an assistant/associate coach with the Canadiens on two occasions (2000-02, 2006) and served as assistant general manager of the Dallas Stars from 2002-06.

Carbonneau played 19 years in the National Hockey League with Montreal, St. Louis and Dallas. He served as Montreal’s captain from 1989-94, captaining the Canadiens to their most recent Stanley Cup championship in 1993. He also won Stanley Cups with Montreal in 1986 and with Dallas in 1999. He was a three-time winner of the Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s top defensive forward, in 1987-88, 1988-89 and 1991-92, and in 2004-05 the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League introduced the Guy Carbonneau Trophy, given annually to the league’s top defensive forward.

Carbonneau is the fourth coach in five years to lead Canada’s National Men’s Under-18 Team after having previously been an NHL head coach, joining Greg Gilbert (2006), Trent Yawney (2007) and Pat Quinn (2008).

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