City Noelville, Ontario Colours Blue, Red, and White Location French River, Canada Date founded 2015 | Home arena Noelville Arena General manager Jessy Landry Head coach Moe Mantha Jr. | |
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Arena Noelville Arena Youth Centre | ||
The French River Rapids are a Canadian Junior "A" ice hockey team based out of Noelville, Ontario. They are members of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League and play their home games at Noelville Arena.
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History
The Rapids were one of two expansion teams that entered the league prior to the start of the 2015-16 season. The team hired former NHL defenseman Moe Mantha, Jr. as its first general manager and head coach. The team played its first game on September 11, 2015, losing at home 6-5 to the Powassan Voodoos before a crowd of 450. After losing the first 13 games in franchise history, the team picked up its first victory with a 3-2 overtime win against the Espanola Express, a fellow expansion team. Moe Mantha left the club near the end of the season to take over as head coach of the Saginaw Spirit. His record as head coach of the club was 1-41-1-1. In May 2016, Jessy Landry was name the clubs new President/General Manager and his first order of business was assuring that Moe Mantha, Jr would return as head coach of the French River Rapids.
In summer 2016, the French River Rapids came under new ownership with Jesse Landry, who also assumed the role of general manager. Laundry stepped down as GM in February 2017. The team still has ambitions of returning for a third season, despite not making the playoffs for the first two seasons.
