The Rouyn-Noranda Capitales were a Junior "A" ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take...

 team from Rouyn-Noranda

Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec

Rouyn-Noranda is a city on Osisko Lake in northwestern Quebec, Canada.The city of Rouyn-Noranda is coextensive with a territory equivalent to a regional county municipality and census division of Quebec of the same name...

, Quebec

Quebec

Quebec or is a province in east-central Canada. It is the only Canadian province with a predominantly French-speaking population and the only one whose sole official language is French at the provincial level....

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Canada

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History

This defunct hockey team was a part of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League

Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League

The Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League is a Junior A ice hockey league under the supervision of the Canadian Junior Hockey League, the Northern Ontario Hockey Association, and Hockey Canada. The winner of the NOJHL playoffs competes for the Dudley Hewitt Cup with the winners of the Ontario...

. The team disbanded to make way for their city's Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League is one of the three major junior ice hockey leagues which constitute the Canadian Hockey League...

 franchise, the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies

Rouyn-Noranda Huskies

The Rouyn-Noranda Huskies are a junior ice hockey team of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. The team is based out of Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec. The team plays its home games at the Iamgold Arena...

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The Capitales were the first Québécois team in NOJHL history. The Capitales left in 1996. There would not be a new Quebec-based team in the league until 2008 when the NOJHL allowed the expansion of the Temiscaming Royals

Temiscaming Royals

The Temiscaming Royals were a Canadian Junior ice hockey team based in Témiscaming, Quebec, Canada. They were members of the Northern Ontario Junior Hockey League, but originated in the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League.-History:...

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Season-by-Season results

Season	GP	W	L	T	OTL	GF	GA	P	Results	Playoffs
1989-90	40	21	18	1
234	212	43	2nd NOJHL	Lost Final
1990-91	40	17	22	1
197	225	35	4th NOJHL
1991-92	48	27	19	2
299	215	56	4th NOJHL
1992-93	48	21	27	0
242	278	42	5th NOJHL
1993-94	40	21	16	3
257	270	45	3rd NOJHL	Lost Final
1994-95	48	33	12	3
295	175	69	2nd NOJHL	Lost Final
1995-96	44	14	28	2
196	235	30	5th NOJHL