Game On Magazine 2017 December 2017 | Page 44

billet family. I told him they couldn’t do it anymore so he just said, ‘Come live with me,” and it all went from there.” LeBlanc started playing the game when he was five, back in his hometown of Ile des Chenes. “I didn’t come from a hockey family, I just said to my mom, ‘I want to play hockey,’ and they signed me up,” he said. “I played minor hockey in Ile des Chenes until I was 12 and then moved on to the Seine River Snipers, Bantam Double A. Then I played one year of high school with College Gabrielle Roy and then two years of provincial midget with Eastman and then started with the Blues at