2023-24 OFFSEASON OUTLOOK - CAPE BRETON EAGLES

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Jeremy Fraser
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The Cape Breton Eagles announce that 19-year-old forward Jacob Newcombe has been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. #qmjhl #lhjmq

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Eagles Reassign 5 Players from 2023 Training Camp
Category: Article
August 26, 2023

Your Eagles have reassigned 5 players from 2023 Training Camp.

We thank these players for their play during this training camp and preseason games, and we wish them the best of luck in the upcoming season.

Players Reassigned on August 26th:

Logan Quinn

Nathan Meunier-Roberge

Alex Christmas

Luke Foley

Alexis Toussaint

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Eagles Reassign 3 Players from 2023 Training Camp
Category: Article
August 27, 2023
On Sunday, your Eagles reassigned 3 players from 2023 Training Camp.

We’d like to thank these players for their participation in this year’s camp, and wish them all the best this upcoming season.

Players reassigned on Aug. 27th:

D – Will Murphy

F – Cam Henderson

F- Rory Pilling (due to injury)

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Halifax > Sports > Regional Sports
Cape Breton Eagles name 2023-24 roster
Luke Dyment
Tuesday August 29, 2023

SYDNEY, N.S. — The Cape Breton Eagles have finalized their roster for the 2023-24 Quebec Major Junior Hockey League season.

The team announced on Monday that 24 players would begin the season with the team, including 15 forwards, seven defencemen and two goalies. Fourteen of them are returnees from last season.

Highlighting the roster are big-name forward additions over the offseason Cam MacDonald and Cole Burbidge — expected to lead the offence alongside Cam Squires. MacDonald (Tampa Bay) and Squires (New Jersey) are the team’s two NHL draft picks.

After scoring 64 points last season, Squires is the team’s top returning scorer. He was third on the team last year after the departed Samuel Johnson (75 points) and Ivan Ivan (90). Returnees Jacob Newcombe (46) and Olivier Houde (44) round out last year’s top five.

Newcombe was named to the final roster despite his recent diagnosis of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. While he won’t be with the team to start the season, the team said in a statement on Monday that he “will be a part of the team” and is hopeful he will return soon.

“We strongly believe his strength and fight will have him back on the ice sometime this season.”

Five Eagles defencemen are returning from 2022-23, including over-agers Zach Biggar and Conor Shortall (MacDonald is the team’s third 20-year-old). Biggar (33 points) and Brayden Schmitt (32) led the Eagles in defence scoring last year, although they split the season between Cape Breton and the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.

Both of the Eagles’ 2023 CHL Import Draft picks — goalie Jakub Milota and centre Lubos Stahon — have made the final cut. Milota will share the crease with Nicolas Ruccia. Rounding out the team’s rookies are forwards Callum Aucoin and Émile Ricard, and defencemen Lincoln Waugh and Étienne Desjardins.

Among the team's final cuts was goalie Rhyah Stewart. The 16-year-old stopper impressed at camp and was the first female to ever play a game with the team — a 24-save, no-goals-allowed performance on Aug. 25 against the Moncton Wildcats at Centre 200. Stewart is committed to the NCAA's University of Wisconsin Badgers.

Cape Breton is midway through its preseason schedule, sporting a 2-1-0-0 (win-loss-OTL-SOL) record. The team doesn’t play again until Sept. 8, when Cape Breton travels to Moncton to play the Wildcats. The team closes out its preseason at the Membertou Sport & Wellness Centre against the Halifax Mooseheads.

The Eagles begin their regular season at Centre 200 on Sept. 22 and 23 with back-to-back games against Moncton.

Cape Breton Eagles 2023-24 roster

FORWARDS
Cole Burbidge 2005 6’01” 170lbs Windsor, NS
Antoine Roy 2004 6’02” 185 Bathurst, NB
Luke Patterson 2005 6’02” 186 Moncton, NB
Émile Ricard* 2007 5’11” 165 Drummondville, QC
Cam Squires 2005 6’00” 170 Charlottetown, PE
Thomas Bégin 2004 5’09” 165 Sherbrooke, QC
Callum Aucoin* 2006 6’00” 173 Hammonds Plains, NS
William Shields 2006 5’09” 171 Falmouth, NS
Lubos Stahon* 2005 5’11” 172 Trstena, SVK
Olivier Houde 2004 6’00” 180 Dosquet, QC
Jude Campbell 2005 6’01” 207 Charlottetown, PE
Luke McPhee 2005 5’11” 195 Halifax, NS
Cam MacDonald 2003 6’02” 190 Hammonds Plains, NS
Angelo Fullerton 2005 6’03” 205 Quispamsis, NB
Jacob Newcombe 2004 6’00” 202 Sambro, NS

DEFENCE
Tomas Lavoie 2006 6’04” 225 Repentigny, QC
Étienne Desjardins* 2006 6’01” 202 Mirabel, QC
Xavier Daigle 2005 6’00” 185 Lévis, QC
Zach Biggar 2003 6’00” 190 Portage, PE
Lincoln Waugh* 2006 5’10” 170 Summerside, PE
Conor Shortall 2003 5’09” 195 St. John’s, NL
Brayden Schmitt 2004 5’11” 178 Truro, NS

GOALIES
Jakub Milota* 2006 6’01” 168 Ostrava, CZE
Nicolas Ruccia 2004 6’00” 175 Laval, QC

NOTE: *indicates rookie