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