meet the lab

coaches & Trainers

Alex Hogue

Operating Manager & Coach

• 🏒 Started playing in Embrun at age four, later developing through the Eastern Ontario AAA system with the Eastern Ontario Cobras/Wild before joining the Cumberland Grads U18 program. FlippingBook

• 🏆 Put up 47 points in 45 games as a U18 defenceman with the Cumberland Grads, earning HEO Player of the Year and HEO AAA Top Defenceman honours in 2016–17. navangrads.com

• 🔥 Selected 37th overall by the Sarnia Sting in the 2017 OHL Priority Selection, then played two full OHL seasons with Sarnia, recording 85 regular-season games. navangrads.com

• ⚜️ Continued his major-junior career with the Gatineau Olympiques, producing 18 points in 54 games from the blue line before returning home to play Junior A with the Navan Grads. navangrads.com

• 🎓 Earned a commitment to the Carleton Ravens, after becoming a CCHL All-Star and leading all CCHL defencemen at the time with 27 points in 25 games; he went on to play U SPORTS hockey for Carleton.

• 🏒 Developed locally with the Cumberland Grads, playing Junior A in the CCHL as a 16- and 17-year-old defenceman. Elite Prospects

• 🐻 Continued his Junior A career with the Smiths Falls Bears, including a 61-game 2017–18 season with 13 points from the blue line. Canadian Hockey League

• 🎓 Earned an NCAA Division I commitment to Merrimack College before ultimately choosing the major-junior route. Canadian Hockey League

• 🔴 Signed with the Oshawa Generals of the OHL in 2018, after originally being selected by Oshawa in the 2015 OHL Priority Selection; he played 35 regular-season games for the Generals. Canadian Hockey League

• 🎓 Played five seasons of U SPORTS hockey with the Nipissing Lakers, from 2019–20 through his senior season in 2023–24, completing a pathway from local Junior A through the OHL and university hockey.

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