Sudbury Wolves grad Serge Dubé wasn’t finished with hockey afterall. After the 2008-09 season, Dubé called it a career and headed to the Laredo Bucks front office. When injuries plagued the team this past February, Serge came back for two games to help the team out. Earlier this summer, Dubé made his intentions clear that he would indeed be back on the ice full-time for the Bucks during the 2010-11 season.

Serge played just one season in the Ontario Hockey League, 1998-1999, with the Sudbury Wolves. Dubé made a decent contribution from the blue line with 22 points in 60 games for the Wolves. Following his OHL career, Serge made a two year stop at the University of Moncton.

2002-03 marked the beginning for the very successful Laredo Bucks in the Central Hockey League. The team has failed to finish any lower than second place in the league’s Southeast Division. The team has been to the league playoff finals four times and has won the prize twice. Serge Dubé has been with the Bucks since day one.

Serge made two minor stops along the way during his professional hockey career. At the start of the 2004-05 season, Dubé tested the European waters, playing in Great Britain. After just eleven games, he was back in Texas for the rest of the 2004-05 season. The following season, 2005-06, Serge was called up to the San Antonio Rampage of the AHL for three games.

Dubé is currently Laredo’s all-time leader in games played and is second in all-time assists and points. Serge captained the team for the three seasons prior to his temporary retirement. He was named the CHL’s Most Outstanding Defenseman for the 2006-07 season and is a three time all-star.

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Could he be the last Hamilton Duke to still be playing professional hockey? The answer to that will have to wait for another day. Current Laredo Buck, Jeff Bes started his Ontario Hockey League career with the Dukes in 1990-91. He moved with the team the next season when they became the Guelph Storm and he finished his OHL career with the Storm the next season, 1992-93.

Jeff was second on team scoring for the Dukes in his rookie season. In both his seasons as a Guelph Storm, he was the team’s top point getter by far. In his final season, his 115 points were good enough for 10th place in the league.

Bes was a 3rd round pick of the Minnesota North Stars back in 1992. He never played a game in the NHL but has played for 17 different teams in 7 different leagues in 5 different countries over his career. Oddly enough, he has never played for a team based in his home country, Canada. He has played in Slovenia, Finland, Germany, Finland and the United States.

Jeff’s team-hopping came to an end at the start of the 2003-04 season as he settled in with Laredo of the Central Hockey League. Now in his 7th season with the club, he has totalled 585 regular season points in just 398 games. Twice with the Bucks, Jeff surpassed the 100 point plateau in a single season – 117 in 2003-04 and 106 in 2007-08.

This season, with 75 points in 64 games, Jeff finished 11th in league scoring and is currently leading the team toward playoff success. It should also be noted that Jeff acts as assistant coach for the team.

The Laredo Bucks official website does not have individual player profiles but the site can be found here. Jeff’s profile page on the CHL site can be found here.