Marcel-Robert Trophy finalists revealed

By admin February 20, 2008

BOUCHERVILLE, Wednesday, February 20, 2008 The five finalists for the Marcel-Robert Trophy, which is awarded each year to the TELUS Scholastic Player of the Year during the Golden Puck Awards Gala in April, were selected today by a League-mandated committee composed of Denis Arsenault, the Director of the QMJHL education policy, Pierre Leduc, the Director of the CSR as well as the Hockey Operations Assistant, and Guy Darveau, the President of the Marcel-Robert committee.

In the past few weeks, each team had submitted a candidate for consideration who was rewarded with a $400 bursary. The five finalists will merit an additional $400 bursary. To determine the winner, each remaining finalist will take part in an interview process, which will measure their analytical skills, their understanding of current events as well as their performance during the interview.

The interviews will be held in Montreal, on Monday, March 3, and will be conducted by the members of the Marcel-Robert committee: Guy Darveau, Willy Palov, of the Chronicle Herald in Halifax, Katrine Lepipas, Normand Shaffer and Nicolas Laplante, student and hockey player at Moncton University as well as the 2004 Marcel-Robert Trophy winner.

The TELUS Scholastic Player of the Year will be awarded the sum of $500 and the "Guy Lafleur" student-athlete bursary worth $6,000.

The five finalists are:

Baie-Comeau Drakkar <a href="http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?page=2147483647&id_register=724 " class="lnkBase10px">Marc-André Dorion</a>
Cape Breton Screaming Eagles <a href="http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?page=2147483647&id_register=3209" class="lnkBase10px">Robert Slaney</a>
Saint John Sea Dogs <a href="http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?page=2147483647&id_register=2769 "class="lnkBase10px">Keven Guérette-Charland</a>
Shawinigan Cataractes <a href="http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?page=2147483647&id_register=1379"class="lnkBase10px">Cédric Lalonde-McNicoll</a>
Val-d’Or Foreurs <a href="http://www.lhjmq.qc.ca/lang_en/index.php?page=2147483647&id_register=2125"class="lnkBase10px">Samuel Richard</a>

Of note, Cédric Lalonde-McNicoll of the Cataractes will receive a $1,000 student-athlete bursary from the Club de la Médaille d'Or today at the "Mise au Jeu" restaurant in Montreal.

For more details, simply click on the link below:

<a href="http://www.clubmedailledor.ca/" class="lnkBase10px">Club de la Médaille d'Or</a>