Alexandre Tremblay Continues Love for the Game in 19th Professional Season
Now for the usual bit of ancillary content, every once in a while, I stumble upon a player profile that reminds me of exactly why I love the game of hockey in the first place, more specifically the obscure and lesser-known side of it. I’ve talked in passing about the likes of Trevor Jobe and Nick Niedert, who both played for 30+ teams over the course of their career as they defined the term journeyman, but this player is of a more homegrown variety. Alexandre Tremblay was a talented, if undersized scoring forward coming out of the QMJHL in the late 90s, and in almost every scenario should’ve disappeared into the eon of top junior players who just never made it professionally.
Instead, Tremblay, at 42 years old, is still chasing his pro hockey dream as he enters his 19th season with Thetford Assurancia of the LNAH, whom he has played for since 2015-16. Tremblay’s career is of a variety that I am largely unfamiliar with, having spent it largely in the second division of European leagues, in this case the NLA’s Swiss-B league. Leagues like these are ones I am mostly, if not entirely unfamiliar with, but regardless, Tremblay established himself as one of the league’s top scoring threats over a 10-year career, coming oh so close to Swiss-A promotion time and time again.
In between, the Beaupre native managed a few brief stints in the AHL, SM-Liiga, and Swiss-A league totaling 41 games, with 12 goals and 4 assists. While the LNAH has experienced financial difficulties related to Covid-19 over the past few seasons, the league has managed to keep things going for 2021-22, and as he enters his 19th professional season, it seems as though Alexandre Tremblay, is hoping for a similar continuation, of a long and winding pro hockey journey.