| 06 September 2011
The Acadie-Bathurst Titan of the QMJHL are set to retire Patrice Bergeron’s number this upcoming season, making him the first player to receive such an honor since the team moved to Bathurst in 1998 according to an article on RDS.com.
The ceremony will be held on September 25th in a Sunday afternoon game against the Rouyn-Norand Huskies.
Picture from RDS article featured below.
A Quebec native, Bergeron was drafted in fifth round of the 2001 QMJHL draft out of AA Bantam hockey where he played for the Riviere-Nord Governeurs. Bergeron spent the 2001-02 season in Midget AAA hockey with the St.Franois Blizzards and played four games with Acadie-Bathurst where he notched one point from an assist.
Bergeron really broke out with Acadie-Bathurst in the 2002-03 season when he played 70 games and amassed 73 points. He had 23 goals and 50 assists, which was second in scoring among rookies.
Following that season the center was drafted 45th overall in the second round of the 2003 NHL Entry Draft by the Boston Bruins and the rest is nearly history.
Bergeron, who wears one of the “A”s on his jersey, has made comebacks from two concussions and is a Stanley Cup Champion. Aside from the Bruins, Bergeron played for Team Canada in 2010 where the team won gold. He also won gold as a member of Team Canada in the 2004 World Championships and 2005 World Junior Championships. He is only the 25th player to win in the Olympics, World Championships and Stanley Cup.
Read the article (in French) here.
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