Guy Boucher is intense.

It would appear that a certain former Voltigeurs' coach's passage did not go unnoticed yesterday.

However, Bryce Milson, in addition to being fitness champion, also wins the hashtag challenge:

Whatever the speech was (or its actual length, given the conflicting reports of the players above), it certainly amounted to something later on the ice, as team Black sought and claimed revenge on the Reds for their defeat the night before with a 7-5 win (categorized as "intense," much like that day's guest) in last night's intersquad game.

Goal scorers for the B's: Jérémie Malouin, Charles-David Beaudoin, Raman Hrabarenka, Jérôme Verrier, Bryce Milson, Matthew Boudens and Toliver Bergeron. The Reds got goals from Alexandre Grenier, Jean-Benoît Beaudry, Lucas Balmelli, Alex Baskakov and Francis Lambert-Lemay.

Cuts were just announced on the Volts' website:

• Alexandre Veronneau
• Alexandre Bilodeau (what do you mean they cut a gold medalist?!)
• Xavier Labonté
• Gabriel Labbé
• Jonathan Rizzo
• Joe Fleschler
• Sacha Harnois
• Kevin Bernillon
• Gabriel Dubois
• Olivier Roquebrune
• Dylan Montcalm
• Andrew McCann
• Toliver Bergeron

The last of the four invitees left is Dexter Weber (!). Meanwhile, Bergeron, acquired from the Armada, was considered to be one of the potential newbies to crack the lineup, but alas, it was not to be this season.  Veronneau, of course, was Graham's backup for some time last year. Louis-Philippe Guindon, Kevin Darveau, and Gabriel Forcier are the remaining three contenders for this position.

So I've missed a lot of things.

First things first, I don't know if you know this, but the Shawinigan Cataractes are this year's Memorial Cup champions.

Good. Just getting that out of the way, it was an extremely pressing subject.

Second, the Sherbrooke Phoenix are the new kids on the block and this week they had their expansion draft. They selected Drummondville's Dominic Talbot-Tassi and Vincent Blanchette, as well as former Voltigeur Alexandre Comtois.

The QMJHL draft was also held this weekend. Without a selection to make until the second round, Joey Ratelle and Jérémy Auger were the first new Drummondville players of the day. Then after waiting three more rounds to speak again, defenseman Mathieu Amyot was selected. Winger Dylan Montcalm, 6'4" defenseman Alex Bilodeau (!), Louis-Philippe Guindon, Xavier Labonté, Gabriel Labbé, Sacha Harmois, Mark Dufour, and Bobby Hall were the Voltigeurs' other selections yesterday.

A few trades were also finalized: Toliver Bergeron of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada was swapped to Drummondville for a ninth round pick next year, Jérôme Raymond went to Bathurst in exchange for 20 year old Jordan Murray, Jérémie Malouin made his way over from Quebec in exchange for two 2012 draft picks (rounds 2 and 4), and the additional pick sent to the Volts in that deal eventually became Joey Ratelle. Finally, Jonathan Oligny became a Cape Breton Screaming Eagle for a 2013 third rounder.

Other things that happened (or didn't):  André Bouvet-Morrissette had an invite to the Canadiens' combine, but eventually signed a contract with the Nashville organization.

Charles Landry was part of the Kelly Cup winning Florida Everblades team....

...and yesterday Ondrej Palat won the Calder Cup with the Norfolk Admirals. (With Landry technically as part of the roster. Double-champion!)

In the classroom, Ryan McKiernan, Jonathan Brunelle, and even Antoine Tardif were all recognized at the Guy Lafleur Awards of Excellence and Merit last week. McKiernan in particular got 6 A's for his 3.65 GPA ...and suddenly I feel ten times more awful as a student than I ever did.