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Senior hockey · Beauséjour Senior Hockey League
Fredericton Express
The name that gave this city “Freddy Beach” is back on a jersey. Ten Saturday nights (and a couple of Fridays) at the Grant-Harvey Centre, $14.50 a ticket, and a team that reached the final in its first season home.
- Record
- 1-01 of 20 played
- Home games
- 10Grant-Harvey Centre
- Ticket
- $14.50general admission
- Last season
- Finalists4th, then a run to the final
Know before you go
A night at the Express, in six facts
Grant-Harvey Centre, 600 Knowledge Park Drive, south of downtown off Regent Street, with a large lot on site. Puck drop is 7 PM on Saturdays and 7:30 on the two Friday dates; the team suggests arriving early on giveaway nights.
$14.50 general admission, standing, plus a $0.36 fee online at frederictonexpress.com. The team posts each home game a week or two out; the first two of the season sold through their site, and more than 460 people had marked themselves going to the home opener on the team site by game day.
Six teams, a 20-game regular season from October 3 to January 15, then best-of-seven playoffs into March. Senior hockey means ex-junior, university and pro-adjacent players in their twenties and thirties, fast and physical, with a crowd that knows them by name.
Every BSHL game streams live on AO Live this season, home and away, which is how most of the road games get followed from Fredericton.
Red, white and blue, like the 1980s original. Fan jerseys in blue or white run $115, or $135 with your own name and number, through the team site, for pickup in town or at a game.
Sponsored by Fairview; the team runs on volunteers and sponsors and says so. Email [email protected], or follow the Facebook page.
Game night
What it looks like from the glass
Photos courtesy of the Fredericton Express.
2026-27 season
The full schedule, home and away
Every home game has its own page on the Hey Freddy calendar. Results are added as the league posts them.
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SatOct 3
@ Saint John Flames
W 7-5 -
SatOct 10
vs Miramichi NorthmenNext home game
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SatOct 17
vs Elsipogtog Hawks
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SunOct 18
@ Bouctouche JCs
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SatOct 24
vs Saint John Flames
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SunOct 25
@ Elsipogtog Hawks
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SunNov 1
@ Bouctouche JCs
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FriNov 6
@ Miramichi Northmen
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SatNov 14
vs Elsipogtog Hawks
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SatNov 21
vs Dalhousie Marauders
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SatNov 28
@ Dalhousie Marauders
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FriDec 4
vs Dalhousie Marauders
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SunDec 6
@ Elsipogtog Hawks
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FriDec 11
vs Saint John Flames
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SatDec 12
@ Saint John Flames
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FriDec 18
vs Miramichi Northmen
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SatDec 19
@ Dalhousie Marauders
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SatJan 2
vs Bouctouche JCs
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SatJan 9
vs Bouctouche JCs
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FriJan 15
@ Miramichi Northmen
The other five
Who comes through the Grant-Harvey this year
Miramichi Northmen
Miramichi Civic Centre
2025 champions and the league’s longest-running power; the Express swept them in last spring’s quarter-final.
Elsipogtog Hawks
Kent North Arena
Second in 2025-26 and the Express’s semifinal opponent, beaten in six; the series went to overtime twice.
Saint John Flames
Lord Beaverbrook Rink
New for 2026-27 and the closest thing to a natural rival down the river; the Express won their first meeting 7-5 on opening night.
Dalhousie Marauders
Dalhousie Arena
The 2026 champions, who finished first and beat the Express in the final.
Bouctouche JCs
J. K. Irving Centre
The Kent County club that opens and closes the Express’s January.
The name
Why “Express” means something here
The first Fredericton Express were an American Hockey League club that played at the Aitken Centre from 1981 to 1988, farm team to the Quebec Nordiques and the Vancouver Canucks. They won back-to-back division titles in 1983 and 1984, reached the Calder Cup final in their last season, and left for Halifax that summer. Along the way their players coined “Freddy Beach,” a deadpan joke about the winters that stuck to the city for forty years and, eventually, gave this site its name.
The name came back in 2025, when the senior team that had played as River Valley returned to the Beauséjour league after a year away and took it. The first season went better than anyone had a right to expect: fourth place, a sweep of Miramichi, a six-game win over Elsipogtog, and a final against Dalhousie. Season two opened with a 7-5 win in Saint John.
The players
The 2026-27 roster
As listed by the league after the season opener; positions are the league’s where given, forwards inferred from scoring otherwise.
- 10Ryan TesinkF
- 12Brett MacLeanF
- 22Peter TrainorF
- 28Matt BoudensF
- 9Oliver CooperF
- 23Sam MacFarlaneF
- 67Benji CurtisF
- 99Connor McLuskeyF
- 37Brady PetersonF
- 19David Brewer
- 55Jarrett Crossman
- 73Adam Crow
- 40Jon Harty
- 6Justin McCarthy Paul
- 72Josh McDonald
- 20Dawson Stairs
- 25Cole Young
- 31Ethan PearsonG
- 99Josh SimpsonG
Ryan Tesink was a league top-forward finalist last season and Sam MacFarlane arrives as the reigning rookie of the year, won with Amherst.
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