McGill hockey grad Brouillard to play for Canada at Spengler Cup tourney in Switzerland

MONTREAL – Nikolas Brouillard, a McGill University graduate, has been selected to play for Canada at the 97th Spengler Cup, a six-team men's hockey tournament, televised on TSN, Dec. 26-31, in Davos, Switzerland.
 
The 30-year-old from St. Hyacinthe, Que., has been playing in the American hockey league since graduating and will become the fourth McGill product to play in the Spengler Cup, following in the wake of Eric Uba, who played for Germany in 2024, and McGill Sports Hall of Fame inductees Tim Iannone (BA '90) and Martin Raymond (BEd'90, MEd '96), who won gold (1987) and bronze (1991), respectively, for Team Canada.
 
Prior to turning pro, Brouillard played three seasons at the U SPORTS level with McGill from 2017 to 2020 and helped lead the team to the Queen's Cup, the Ontario University Athletics conference championship, in 2018. The two-time OUA all-star merited All-Canadian honours in 2019-20 when he was named as both the OUA East Division's most outstanding rearguard and the U SPORTS defencemen of the year.

In the university ranks, Brouillard tallied 22 goals and 49 points with 103 PIMs in 57 regular season games and a 3-12-15 record in 17 career post-season contests. In 85 career outings overall at McGill, the wiry blue-liner registered 30 goals and 73 points with 155 PIMs. His best single-game output was a four-point soirée, including a pair of goals, in McGill's 4-3 home-ice victory over Ontario Tech on Nov. 15, 2019.
 
He was selected to play for the U SPORTS all-stars against Team Canada junior prospects in each of his last two seasons at McGill and registered a combined five points in five games. He also skated for a university all-star squad -- composed of teams from the Quebec-based side of the OUA East -- in a 2019 confrontation against the Montreal Canadiens rookie squad.
 
Brouillard, a 5-foot-10, 172-pound defenceman, has a 1-8-9 record with the AHL's San Diego Gulls this season and recently became the first Gulls rearguard to reach the 100-point mark in a San Diego jersey. He leads all-time Gulls AHL defensemen in points (23-78-101) and assists, ranks second in PIM (295) and games played (193), third in goals). In 333 career AHL games with Coachella Valley, Hartford, San Diego and Toronto from 2016 to 2025, he has tallied 175 points, including 35 goals, with 487 PIMs. He also appeared in 39 ECHL contests with Orlando in 2016-17, posting a 7-14-21 record with 62 PIM.
 
Prior to McGill, Brouillard toiled for five seasons in the junior ranks, with stints in Drummondville (2011-14), Québec (2014-15) and Rouyn-Noranda (2015-16). He won a President's Cup league championship ring with the Huskies in 2016. Brouillard was selected three times for the QMJHL all-star team to play in the Canada-Russia Subway Series in 2012, 2013 and 2014. He was named to the QMJHL all-rookie team in 2011-12 and earned second-team all-star status in 2014-15.
 
This year's Spengler Cup tourney features two pools, with Canada competing in the Cattini division that includes HC Davos and the U.S. Collegiate Selects. In the Torriani Group, IFK Helsinki will battle with Sparta Prague, and defending champion Fribourg-Gottéron ahead of the knockout stage. The Spengler Cup is slated to begin on Dec. 26, followed by the semifinals on Dec. 29 and the medal games on Dec. 31.
 
2025-26 SPENGLER CUP TEAM CANADA ROSTER:
https://www.hockeycanada.ca/en-ca/team-canada/men/national/2025-26/spengler-cup/stats/team-rosters?teamid=151
 
SPENGLER CUP TOURNAMENT:
https://www.spenglercup.ch/en/tournament/teams