LAV Rocket
- Alias
- St Johns Icecaps St. Johns Ice Caps
- Leagues Played
- AHL 788 AHL Pre-Season 4
- Links
- rocketlaval.com Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube TikTok Wikipedia
Fixtures
| AHL | 11/16 00:00 | - |
LAV Rocket
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SYR Crunch
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| AHL | 11/16 22:05 | - |
ROC Americans
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LAV Rocket
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| AHL | 11/21 00:00 | - |
LAV Rocket
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ROC Americans
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| AHL | 11/23 00:00 | - |
LAV Rocket
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BEL Senators
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| AHL | 11/24 00:00 | - |
BEL Senators
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LAV Rocket
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| AHL | 11/28 00:00 | - |
HER Bears
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LAV Rocket
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Results
| AHL | 11/14 00:05 | - |
[5] LAV Rocket
v
ROC Americans
[11]
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W | 3-2 | |
| AHL | 11/10 00:00 | - |
LAV Rocket
v
BEL Senators
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L | 2-3 | |
| AHL | 11/09 00:00 | - |
[3] LAV Rocket
v
BEL Senators
[15]
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W | 4-3 | |
| AHL | 11/02 19:00 | - |
[21] PRO Bruins
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LAV Rocket
[3]
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W | 3-6 | |
| AHL | 11/01 23:00 | - |
[19] PRO Bruins
v
LAV Rocket
[7]
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W | 1-2 | |
| AHL | 10/30 23:00 | - |
UTI Comets
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LAV Rocket
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W | 2-3 | |
| AHL | 10/26 23:00 | - |
[9] LAV Rocket
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UTI Comets
[31]
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W | 4-3 | |
| AHL | 10/25 23:00 | - |
[31] UTI Comets
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LAV Rocket
[9]
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W | 3-4 | |
| AHL | 10/19 19:00 | - |
[9] SYR Crunch
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LAV Rocket
[5]
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W | 0-1 | |
| AHL | 10/18 23:00 | - |
[1] SYR Crunch
v
LAV Rocket
[13]
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W | 2-5 | |
| AHL | 10/12 23:05 | - |
[2] LAV Rocket
v
SPR Thunderbirds
[10] 
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L | 1-3 | |
| AHL | 10/11 23:05 | - |
LAV Rocket
v
PRO Bruins
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W | 5-2 |
Wikipedia - Laval Rocket
The Laval Rocket (French: Rocket de Laval) are a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League (AHL) based in Laval, Quebec. The team began play in the 2017–18 season, with home games held at Place Bell. They are affiliated with the Montreal Canadiens of the National Hockey League (NHL) and Trois-Rivières Lions of the ECHL.
History
On July 11, 2016, the AHL and the Montreal Canadiens announced that they would be moving their affiliate to the Montreal suburb of Laval for the 2017–18 season. A name-the-team contest was held from July 11 until August 31, with Patriots, Rapids and Rocket as the final three. On September 8, the winning name of Laval Rocket was announced, a tribute to Canadiens' legend Maurice "Rocket" Richard which got a 51% majority of the fan votes. With this, Laval became the second hockey team in the Greater Montreal area to use that nickname, after the Montreal Rocket of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL), from 1999 until 2003. In June 2017, the franchise named Larry Carriere as general manager and retained Sylvain Lefebvre as head coach, a position he held since 2012 when the franchise played as the Hamilton Bulldogs and St. John's IceCaps respectively.
In their inaugural campaign, Laval finished with a 24–42–7–3 record and placed last overall in the league. Lefebvre was relieved as head coach immediately upon the end of the season and was replaced by Joel Bouchard, who had been serving as head coach and general manager of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.
For the 2020–21 season, the Rocket temporarily relocated to the Bell Centre in Montreal to share the facility with their parent team during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rocket were the Canadian Division champions and second-best winning percentage in the league, while playing only the other four teams based in Canada and no postseason during the pandemic. After the season ended, head coach Bouchard left the team at the end of his contract, compiling a 83–67–24 record over three seasons, to become the head coach of the AHL San Diego Gulls. The Rocket then hired Jean-François Houle as their third head coach until the foregoing's departure in June 2024. Shortly thereafter, on July 16, Lavallois Pascal Vincent was named as the fourth head coach in franchise history.