Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL HATS

Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHL HATS Quebec Major Junior Hockey League team Trusted seller Ship from Toronto Make a reasonable offer Check our other items and combine deals to save on shipping We have pucks, hats, jerseys, etc We'll start with a little history. Shawinigan is an Algonquin word meaning "portage on the ridge". The Cataractes team name translates to "waterfalls", and there is a 50-metre high waterfall which helped found the city of Shawinigan Falls, the home of NHL legend Jacques Plante. The waterfall prompted several power plants to be built in Shawinigan, and allowed the city to become the first city in all of Quebec to have public electric lighting. The 2504-seat Jacques Plante Arena, which sits a block from the Cataracte's current arena, still stands today, and remains virtually unchanged from when it was built in 1937. The Cataractes called the Jacques Plante Arena home until the QMJHL team moved into the larger and more modern Centre Bionest in 2008. The Cataractes, founded in 1969, remain as the only founding QMJHL team to have remained in the same city since the league's inception. Pretty cool little bit of history, right?