Jérémy Roy’s 2016-17 season was a nightmare, but it didn’t begin as one. The 2015 second round pick skated for team Canada at the World Junior evaluation camp last summer, and even played 17:06 in a preseason game with the San Jose Sharks on September 27.
But the defenseman found himself in Head Coach Peter DeBoer’s office after the game, and was cut from camp to return to the QMJHL the very next day. He began his first season with the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada, after spending the previous three years with the Sherbrooke Phoenix.
Roy debuted with the Armada three days after skating against the Vancouver Canucks at SAP Center.