Wildcats vs Oceanic, But What About the Mooseheads?

Wildcats vs Oceanic, but What About the Mooseheads?

The Halifax Mooseheads scouting staff and brain trust will be watching the 2025 QMJHL final out of intrigue, but also out of familiarity. It’s hard to believe, but the Mooseheads will have 7 former players vying for the QMJHL championship and the Memorial Cup this year.

7 players, that’s incredible if you think about it, the sheer depth of drafting and impact the organization has had on developing top end players.

Clearly the Herd have a history of doing things the right way and have a great formula when it comes to junior hockey’s dreaded cycle. To continually hit on that cycle while drafting, developing, producing quality players and vying for championships over that period of time of their own is truly remarkable.

We all know the names, the trades, and how they ended up with their new teams and the returns the Mooseheads received. Nevertheless, Lou Levesque, Jack Martin and Mathieu Cataford, will represent the Oceanic, while Mathis Rousseau, Markus Vidicek, Dylan MacKinnon, and Logan Crosby will be part of the Wildcats contingent heading into the Q finals.

Their championship aspirations didn’t come to fruition with the

Mooseheads, but they all cut their teeth playing in front of hockey crazed fans and to a packed house every time they suited up on home ice.

When the puck drops Saturday evening all of these former teammates or “brothers in arms” will be fierce enemies vying for the right to hoist the Gilles Courteau Trophy, but there’s one common thread that will always connect them forever and that’s where their QMJHL dreams all started, in Moose Country!