The Patriotes of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR) are Canadian champions for the fifth time in their history thanks to the golden goal of forward Simon Lafrance, in the second period of overtime. Behind this memorable sequence is a story of the most delicious.
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To fully understand it, we must remember that in 2001, the Patriotes won the national championship, the third in their history, by a score of 5 to 4 against the X-Men of Saint-Francis-Xavier University thanks to a goal in the second overtime. The author of this net? None other than the team’s current head coach Marc-Étienne Hubert.