QMJHL All-Star Teams announced

By admin March 31, 2008

BOUCHERVILLE, Monday, March 31, 2008 The Commissioner of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, Gilles Courteau, today announced the Rookie, First-Team and Second-Team All-Stars. The players were nominated by League coaches while a QMJHL committee voted the teams.

The All-Rookie Team includes goaltender Olivier Roy (Cape Breton), defensemen Samuel Groulx (Quebec) and Simon Després (Saint John) as well as left-winger Nicolas Deschamps (Chicoutimi), center Tomas Knotek (Halifax) and right-winger Jacob Lagacé (Chicoutimi).

The Second-Team All-Star squad is comprised of goaltender Marco Cousineau (Baie-Comeau), defensemen Kevin Marshall (Lewiston) and Ivan Vishnevskiy (Rouyn-Noranda) as well as left-winger Michael Dubuc (Rouy-Noranda), center Mathieu Perreault (Acadie-Bathurst) and right-winger Jakub Voracek (Halifax).

The First-Team All-Star Team counts goaltender Kevin Desfossés (Quebec), defensemen Marc-André Bourdon (Rouyn-Noranda) and Marc-André Dorion (Baie-Comeau) as well as left-winger Stefano Giliati (Lewiston), center Francis Paré (Chicoutimi) and right-winger Claude Giroux (Gatineau).