Boxers de Bordeaux

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Boxers de Bordeaux
Boxers de Bordeaux logo.png
City Bordeaux, France
League Ligue Magnus
2015–present
Founded1998
Home arena Patinoire de Mériadeck
Colors  
Owner(s) Jean Bédard
Patrick Roy
Jacques Tanguay
General manager Stéphan Tartari
Head coach Olivier Dimet
Captain Loïk Poudrier
Website www.hockey-boxers-de-bordeaux.fr
Franchise history
1998–presentBoxers de Bordeaux

The Boxers de Bordeaux are a professional ice hockey team founded in 1998 and based in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Since 2015, they have been playing at the highest level of the French hockey pyramid, the Ligue Magnus. The team is partly owned by a group of Canadian investors, which includes famed player and coach Patrick Roy.

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History

Founding and lower divisions (1998–2015)

The organization was established in October 1998 under the legal name Bordeaux Gironde Hockey 2000 to succeed a recently folded team known during most of its history as the Dogues de Bordeaux. Like its predecessor, the club named itself after a mastiff breed, the boxer. [1] A few players from the Dogues opted to remain with the new team despite starting all the way back to the fourth tier. Among them was league veteran Stéphan Tartari, who would double as a player and assistant coach. He would graduate to the position of head coach, and later manager after the end of playing career. [2]

The Boxers immediately ascended to the third tier, and further gained promotion to the second tier in 2006, where it would remain for ten years. In 2014, the parent club spun off the men's team to a separate for-profit company to prepare for promotion to the country's highest level, the Ligue Magnus. [3] The team reached second-tier finals in 2014 and 2015, losing to Lyon in the former before defeating southwest rivals Anglet—then coached by future Bordeaux skipper Olivier Dimet—thanks to a sudden death goal by Anglet-trained Thomas Decock in game four of the best-of-five series. [4] With the win, the city of Bordeaux returned to the national top flight after a 17-year absence. [5]

Ligue Magnus (2015–present)

Underdog years

Following an undistinguished first season, where it finished in 9th place and narrowly missed the playoffs, the team reached 4th place and the playoff semifinals in 2016–17 and 2017–18, equaling the historical best of the market's previous team, the Dogues. The 2018–19 campaign however, was both a sporting and financial disappointment, as the club was prematurely eliminated by Amiens in the quarterfinals, and assessed the first of two consecutive point penalties for overspending. As a result, the club had to par down its roster for several seasons to replenish its coffers. [6] Following the rebuild, the club returned to its status as a solid underdog in the Ligue Magnus behind the league's perennial big three of Rouen, Grenoble and Angers, with the city of Bordeaux considered perhaps the country's most hockey-friendly major agglomeration thanks to its affluent demographics. [3] [7] [8]

Breakthrough and arrival of Canadian investors

In January 2024, it was announced that a partnership of former NHL great Patrick Roy and fellow Canadians Jean Bédard, owner of sports bar chain La Cage, and Jacques Tanguay, former owner of the Quebec Remparts, had acquired a minority stake in the team. The trio's shares represent an 18.5 percent ownership. [9] [10] [11]

Following an injury-hampered early season, the Boxers righted the ship to enter the playoffs with the fourth seed. They beat newcomers Marseille in the overtime of game seven, before upsetting the country's biggest-budget team Grenoble in a five-game semifinal to reach their first championship series. The team won the first two games on the ice of title defenders Rouen, but lost the next four to finish the campaign as runner-up, its best result to date. [12]

Current roster

Updated 7 November 2024.

No. Nat Player Pos S/G AgeAcquiredBirthplace
35 Flag of France.svg Victor Bodin G L23 2023 Singapore, Singapore
72 Flag of France.svg Baptiste Bruche W R24 2023 Amiens, France
24 Flag of France.svg Enzo Carry C L21 2021 Bayonne, France
20 Flag of France.svg Kévin Dusseau  ( A ) D L33 2023 Rouen, France
73 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Tommy Giroux LW L32 2024 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
96 Flag of France.svg Tom Guidoux LW R20 2024 Grenoble, France
13 Flag of France.svg Julien Guillaume  ( A ) C R28 2016 Besançon, France
10 Flag of Latvia.svg Emīls Ģēģeris LW L25 2024 Riga, Latvia
22 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Justin Hamonic D R30 2024 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
71 Flag of Latvia.svg Ņikita Jevpalovs RW R30 2022 Riga, Latvia
52 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Maxim Lamarche D R32 2024 Laval, Quebec, Canada
21 Flag of France.svg Kaylian Leborgne C L20 2024 Mont-Saint-Aignan, France
5 Flag of France.svg Bastien Lemaitre D R23 2020 Fontainebleau, France
39 Flag of France.svg Malo Lesur D R17 2024 Bordeaux, France
32 Flag of France.svg Quentin Papillon G L27 2023 Rouen, France
9 Flag of Latvia.svg Rudolfs Polcs W L23 2023 Riga, Latvia
19 Flag of France.svg Mathieu Pompei  ( A ) C R33 2023 Laval, Quebec, Canada
27 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Loïk Poudrier  ( C ) C L32 2019 Thetford Mines, Quebec, Canada
57 Flag of France.svg Axel Prissaint D L26 2022 Amiens, France
– Flag of France.svg Esteban Ragot F R21 2024 Annecy, France
76 Flag of France.svg Aïna Rambelo  ( A ) F L33 2014 Bordeaux, France
91 Flag of Finland.svg Samuel Salonen RW L30 2023 Vaasa, Finland
44 Flag of France.svg Kevin Spinozzi D L28 2021 Granby, Quebec, Canada
11 Flag of Finland.svg Julius Valtonen RW R29 2023 Tuusula, Finland

Honors

Champions

Gold medal icon.svg Division 1 (1): 2014–15

Runners-up

Silver medal icon.svg Ligue Magnus (1): 2023–24
Silver medal icon.svgDivision 1(1): 2013–14

Retired numbers

Boxers de Bordeaux retired numbers
NoPlayerPositionCareerLast match date for BoxersDate No. retired
4Stéphan Tartari [2] C 1998–2008
1996–98 w/ Dogues de Bordeaux		April 12, 2008January 29, 2019 [13]

Notable personnel

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References

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