Former Montreal Juniors QMJHL team to be renamed Blainville-Boisbriand Armada

Published November 20, 2014

MONTREAL - The former Montreal Juniors of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League will be called the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.

The players will wear black and white jerseys with the name Armada written across a capital A as its logo, the club announced at a news conference Tuesday.

A team statement said the name suggests ''vigour, cohesion, unity, dynamism and the combining of forces. The Blainville-Boisbriand Armada evokes a fleet of ships going to battle.''

The Juniors were sold in June to a group led by former NHL defenceman Joel Bouchard.

They were moved from the Verdun Auditorium in the city to the Centre d'Excellence Sports Rousseau in Boisbriand, Que., where Bouchard runs a hockey academy. Boisbriand and Blainville are side-by-side suburban municipalities north of Montreal.

Media company Quebecor owns 70 per cent of the team, with the rest held by Bouchard, current NHL players Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Daniel Briere and Ian Laperriere and investor Pierre Gendron. Bouchard will be the team's president and governor.

Pascal Vincent remains the team's coach and general manager.

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