The Chicoutimi Saguenéens are a Canadian junior ice hockey team which plays in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). The team is based in Chicoutimi, Quebec, and owned by the City of Saguenay. The team plays its home games at the Centre Georges-Vézina.
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History
The Chicoutimi Saguenéens franchise was granted for the 1973–74 season. The team's name, Saguenéens, literally means "People from the Saguenay." The current junior team is only the most recent to use the name. The "Sags", as they are popularly nicknamed, have won the Gilles-Courteau Trophy three times in their history (1990–91, 1993–94, and 2025–26). In all three instances, they advanced to the Memorial Cup, failing to advance past the round-robin stage on the first two occasions. The Sags also participated in the 1997 Memorial Cup, as the host Hull Olympiques had won the QMJHL title that year; the Saguenéens also did not advance past the round-robin that year. Finally, the Centre Georges-Vézina hosted Memorial Cup festivities in 1988, but the team did not participate as then-current QMJHL rules forced the host team to make it to at least the President's Cup final, which the Saguenéens did not do in that year.
Yearly results
Legend: OTL = Overtime loss, SL = Shootout loss
Players
Retired numbers
14 – Alain Côté
15 – David Desharnais
16 – Normand Leveille
18 – Sylvain Locas
20 – Marc Fortier
21 – Guy Carbonneau
29 – Félix Potvin
33 – Marc Denis