2017 NHL Entry Draft, the club had signed another top Czech prospect, Filip Zadina. The club began its 25th anniversary year with another coaching change. Éric Veilleux was a former NHL forward and AHL head coach who had led the Shawinigan Cataractes to a Memorial Cup crown in 2012 and only had one losing season in nine years as a head coach in major junior. The team then traded for veteran players, including Antoine Morand and Samuel Asselin from the reigning Memorial Cup champion Acadie-Bathurst Titan, and Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, native Keith Getson from the Charlottetown Islanders. The team finished the season with its second-best all-time record at 49 wins and a .750 points percentage, good for first place in the Maritimes Division. After a seven-game, come-from-behind win over Quebec in the first round, the Mooseheads swept the Moncton Wildcats in four straight, then beat Drummondville in six games in a semi-final matchup. The Mooseheads were led by the production of NHL draft prospect Raphael Lavoie, who led the league in playoff scoring with 20 goals. In the final, the Mooseheads faced the league-leading Rouyn-Noranda Huskies, a team that had finished the regular season with 59 wins and had lost only two playoff games. The Huskies won the final in six games, hoisting the President's Cup on Halifax ice. The two teams met again in the Memorial Cup tournament: the Huskies as QMJHL champions with the Mooseheads qualifying as hosts. The Mooseheads advanced with a bye to the championship game following a 2–1 record and first-place finish in the round-robin with their lone loss coming against the Huskies. The Huskies then also advanced to the final and defeated the Mooseheads again by a score of 4–2. Following the season, head coach Veilleux left the team for a position with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League. Season-by-season results Regular season Playoffs Memorial Cup Team records As of the 2018–19 season: Coaches *interim (regular head coach fired, sick or suspended) Players NHL alumni Ramzi Abid Andrew Bodnarchuk David Brine Frédéric Cassivi Marc Chouinard Joe DiPenta Jonathan Drouin Jeremy Duchesne Benoit Dusablon Nikolaj Ehlers Ryan Flinn Martin Frk Jean-Sébastien Giguère Alexandre Grenier Nico Hischier Éric Houde Milan Jurcina Jason King Pascal Leclaire Joey MacDonald Nathan MacKinnon Brad Marchand Timo Meier Ladislav Nagy Alexandre Picard Brandon Reid Jody Shelley Alex Tanguay Jakub Voracek Petr Vrana MacKenzie Weegar Filip Zadina Retired numbers 18