The San Jose Barracuda have never played at Place Bell in Laval. The AHL schedule and alignment means there are some teams that will simply never meet. Thomas Bordeleau was born in Houston, spent a lot of his childhood in Switzerland, then returning to Quebec before going to the US Development Program and eventually the University of Michigan.
Bordeleau was the son of a professional hockey player. His father, Sebastien, spent three years in the Montreal Canadiens organization before going to Nashville, Minnesota, and eventually Europe. Now his father is a skills coach who has worked with several men’s and women’s teams, and holds summer skates with NHL and top women’s hockey players.