Shutouts not evading Herd anymore

Both goalies for your Moose now have a shutout on the season. Chris Clarke received his first shutout of the season as he back stopped his team to a 5-0 win over the Phoenix in Sherbrooke almost two weeks ago. The win against the Quebec team was the first shutout of the season for the Halifax Mooseheads. The red, green and gold now have two shutouts in five games as the Herd and Zachary Fucale beat the Chicoutimi Sagueneens tonight (January 31) 7-0 in the Quebecois city. This was the Mooseheads 40th win. The Moose are the second team this season to reach 40 wins after Portland reached it on Tuesday night also winning without letting a goal in as they beat Everett 6-0. Halifax has now passed last year's win total of 39 for the whole season and there is still 20 games left to be played this year, hopefully the team can win at least half of those games to make it a half century of wins this season for the first time in team history. The current franchise high is 46 wins set in the 1998-99 season.

This was also Konrad Abeltshauser's 200th career regular season game. He ended the night with a +5 rating and 2 assists. Jonathan Drouin scored two beautiful goals according to the team's twitter account. Big Joe added two assists and ended the night with a +4 rating. Marty Frk also had 2 goals and a plus 4 rating while also assisting on a goal. MacKinnon, Weegar and Fournier had the other goals with MacKinnon assisting on two others. Trey Lewis tied with Konrad for team lead in plus/minus.

Our team will now travel to Baie-Comeau to take on the Drakkar tomorrow night as these top division leaders battle it out. The Drakkar are now 11 points behind the Moose in the Quebec league standings. After tomorrow's tilt, the Moose will head back home to play Sidney Crosby's old team, the Rimouski Oceanic, on Wednesday. Look for my preview and game story on Wednesday.

GO MOOSE GO!!!

Mooseheads knocked out of top spot

Once again, the Canadian Hockey League announced their top 10 teams for the past week over the 3 leagues. After 11 weeks of being ranked #1 in the country this season, the Herd have been dethroned by the Portland Winterhawks. The Hawks are the first team in the CHL to reach 40 wins on the season. Three other teams from the Q were once again named in the rankings along with the Mooseheads.

Week 19's CHL Top 10

1. Portland Winterhawks (40-7-1-2) last week: 2
2. Halifax Mooseheads (39-5-2-1) last week: 1
3. London Knights (37-9-1-2) last week: 3
4. Kelowna Rockets (37-10-3-1) last week: 4
5. Baie-Comeau Drakkar (34-12-2-2) last week: 5
6. Edmonton Oil Kings (35-11-2-3) last week: 6
7. Rimouski Oceanic (33-11-1-4) last week: 7
8. Barrie Colts (32-14-0-2) last week: 9
9. Calgary Hitmen (33-13-1-3) last week: 10
10. Owen Sound Attack (30-14-1-3) last week: 8

   Honorable mentions:
   Kamloops Blazers (33-14-2-3)
   Moncton Wildcats (32-16-1-0)
   Kitchener Rangers (29-14-1-5)

Halifax suffers only second home loss of season

Tonight's game was an interesting one. The refs missed a couple of penalties. In the two games between these teams this season, the away team has won each contest. Quebec got on the board early while the Moose thought they had tied it in the first but after a 10 minute goal review (and the ref saying it was in at first) the goal was disallowed. However Big Joe tied it up to extend his point streak to twelve games. He was then cross checked from behind which led to a fight with Lewis getting a 10 minute misconduct and MacKinnon got 2 for roughing and a Quebec player getting a 5 minute fighting major. The Quebec goalie, Brassard basically stood on his head as the Remparts were outshot by the red, white and gold 32-14 after two.

Notes: Steve MacAulay's seven game point streak ended tonight... Weegar broke a 16 year old record (most home assists by a rookie defenseman) in last nights win after recording his 13th assist... Konrad will play in his 200th game on Thursday night on the road...

50/50
Congratulations to Dale of Halifax who got $16,223 winning tonight's 50/50

Three stars:
3. Shaw (QUE)
2. Drouin (HAL)
1. Brassard (QUE)

Weegar also received Dickies hardest working player of the game.

Attendance: SELLOUT 10,595

This was the first time that Quebec has returned to the Metro Centre since last season's very exciting playoff series between these two teams where Halifax was able to start a come back at home.


Score
Remparts 4 at Mooseheads 2

UP NEXT: versus Chicoutimi on the last day of the month at the Centre Georges-Vezina

Jan 26: Quebec vs. Mooseheads game preview

The Quebec Remparts finally make their long awaited visit to Halifax tonight. This is only the second time that these two heated rivals have played each other this season. The last time Halifax and Quebec played was last Friday in Quebec City, the away team in that game was able to clinch a playoff spot with 25 games left. The Mooseheads were able to win it 11-2, riding on Drouin's four points (goal and 3 assists) and Mac Weegar's 4 assists. The win was the first in a 3-in-3 night road trip.
The Mooseheads are coming into the game winning their last four contests all against Quebec teams and are 8-1-1-0 in the last 10 games overall. Quebec City are 4-6-0-0 in their last 10 and have a 12-8-1-2 road record this season. Halifax will be without Andrew Ryan and Brendan Duke as they are both out with unspecified injuries, Ryan will be out for at least 4 weeks and Duke is now listed day-to-day.

Overall record:
QUE: 27-16-1-2 = 57 points (3rd in Telus East Division, 7th overall)
HAL: 39-4-2-1 = 81 points (1st in Maritimes Division, 1st overall)

Top Scorers:
REMPARTS: #73 Adam Erne (20G, 36A, 56 PTS), Logan Shaw (20G, 31A, 51 PTS), Mikhail Grigorenko (29G, 21A, 50 PTS)
HALIFAX: #22 Nathan MacKinnon (26G, 35A, 61 PTS), #27 Jonathan Drouin (23G, 37A, 60 PTS), #74 Stefan Fournier (27G, 26A, 53 PTS)

Around the CHL ~ volume #2 season edition #1

Thanks for following my blog and keep reading it (don't be afraid to comment). I meant to do this once amonth but obviously that didn't work very well. I will do a third edition next month and then a fourth one when the season ends. I will also do a playoff edition. I am so excited for the playoffs, I'm hoping they are as good as last years and the Mooseheads do better than last year!! GO Moose GO!

League leaders
Goals - Josh Currie 38 goals (QMJHL Prince Edward Island Rocket), Reid Boucher 38 goals (OHL Sarnia Sting), Todd Fiddler 33 goals (WHL Spokane Chiefs)
Assists - Charles Sarault 54 assists (OHL Sarnia Sting), Nicolas Petan 49 assists (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Ben Duffy 46 assists (QMJHL Prince Edward Island Rocket)
Points - Nicolas Petan 80 points (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Josh Currie 74 points (QMJHL Prince Edward Island Rocket), Seth Griffith 73 points (OHL London Knights)
Defenceman points - Brenden Kichton 57 points (WHL Spokane Chiefs), Kevin Gagne 47 points (QMJHL Rimouski Oceanic), Cody Ceci 44 points (OHL Owen Sound Attack)
Rookie points - Valentin Zykov 56 points (QMJHL Baie-Comeau Drakkar), Connor McDavid 49 points (OHL Erie Otters), Oliver Bjorkstrand 37 points (WHL Portland Winterhawks)
Goalie wins - Zachary Fucale 30 wins (QMJHL Halifax Mooseheads), Jordan Cooke 25 wins (WHL Kelowna Rockets), Mathias Niederberger 24 wins (OHL Barrie Colts)
Save percentage - Franky Palazzese 0.934 SAV% (OHL Sudbury Wolves), Mac Carruth 0.933 SAV% (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Antoine Bibeau 0.913 SAV% (QMJHL Prince Edward Island Rocket)
Goals against average - Mac Carruth 1.89 GAA (WHL Portland Winterhawks), Franky Palazzese 2.14 GAA (OHL Sudbury Wolves), Etienne Marcoux 2.17 GAA (QMJHL Blainville-Boisbraind Armada)

Division leaders
WHL - Portland Winterhawks 76 points/37 wins (U.S. division), Kelowna Rockets 71 points/34 wins (B.C. division), Edmonton Oil Kings 67 points/31 wins (Central division), Prince Albert Raiders 58 points/27 wins (East division)
OHL - London Knights 73 points/35 wins (Midwest division), Barrie Colts 62 points/30 wins (Central division), Oshawa Generals 56 points/26 wins (East division), Sarnia Sting 55 points/26 wins (West division)
QMJHL - Halifax Mooseheads 79 points/38 wins (Maritimes division), Baie-Comeau Drakkar 66 points/31 wins (TELUS East division), Blainville-Boisbraind Armada 59 points/27 wins (TELUS West division)

BMO CHL top ten ~ week 18
1. Halifax Mooseheads {38-4-2-1} week 17 #1
2. Portland Winterhawks {37-7-1-1} week 17 #2
3. London Knights {35-8-1-1} week 17 #3
4. Kelowna Rockets {34-10-2-1} week 17 #4
5. Baie-Comeau Drakkar {31-11-2-2} week 17 #6
6. Edmonton Oil Kings {32-11-2-3} week 17 #5
7. Rimouski Oceanic {30-11-1-4} week 17 #7
8. Owen Sound Attack {29-12-1-3} week 17 #8
9. Barrie Colts {30-13-0-2} week 17 #10
10. Calgary Hitmen {31-12-1-3} week 17 n/a
Honorable mentions: Kamloops Blazers {30-14-2-3 #9}, Moncton Wildcats {28-16-1-0 n/a}, Guelph Storm {26-14-1-4 n/a}


Tonight's games
Rocket vs. Wildcats at 6pm/ET
Oceanic vs. Tigres at 7pm/ET
Spirit vs. Otters at 7pm/ET
Sting vs. Steelheads at 7pm/ET
Colts vs. Attack at 7pm/ET
Generals vs. Bulls at 7:05pm/ET
Olympiques vs. Drakkar at 7:30pm/ET
Greyhounds vs. Wolves at 7:35pm/ET
Oil Kings vs. Blades at 8:05pm/ET
Tigers vs. Ice at 9pm/ET
Silvertips vs. Blazers at 10pm/ET
Raiders vs. Cougars at 10pm/ET
Winterhawks vs. Chiefs at 10:05pm/ET

Happenings since last edition
*London Knights won 24 straight games overall which started with a win against Belleville on November 2nd and ended with an overtime loss to the Sarnia Sting January 1st.
*Halifax Mooseheads won 17 straight games at home starting on September 29 versus Cape Breton and ending with an overtime loss on January 4 to Saint John, this led to Halifax having the best home record in the CHL which today stands at 18-1-1-0.
*72 current CHL players were selected to play for their respective countries in the 2013 World Juniors in Ufa, Russia. Seven more CHL alumni were also chosen to represent their countries. With the United States winning the gold medal, 10 current CHL players were able to bring that experience back to their junior teams.
*The Home Hardware CHL/NHL top prospects game was played a week ago in Halifax, Nova Scotia in front of a sold out crowd which included many (at least 200) scouts and hockey personnel.
*The NHL season finally started on Saturday after a 114 day lockout. 8 CHL players were called up to represent the teams that drafted them in 2012 or 2011; this includes Mark Scheifele, Nail Yakupov, Jonathan Huberdeau, Alex Galchenyuk, Rickard Rickell, Mikhail Grigorenko, Dougie Hamilton, and Scott Laughton.

Note: the Saint John Sea Dogs and the Vancouver Giants are the only teams in the CHL to not have lost any games in overtime or a shootout. Also, despite being Memorial Cup champions last year, Shawinigan finds themselves at the bottom of the QMJHL.

Moose statistics on January 20

Team:
Record 38-4-2-1 79 points (1st overall)
Goals for/against 225/118
Power play percentage 28.6% (2nd overall)
Penalty killing percentage 78.9% (8th overall)

Top 10 skaters points
10. Brent Andrews 45gp-9g-21a-30pts
9. Konrad Abeltshauser 34gp-4g-32a-36pts
8. Stephen MacAulay 41gp-22g-24a-46pts
7. Luca Ciampini 44gp-15g-32a-47pts
6. Martin Frk 33gp-16g-31a-47pts
5. Matthew Boudreau 45gp-30g-18a-48pts
4. Darcy Ashley 45gp-15g-35a-50pts
3. Stefan Fournier 44gp-26g-24a-50pts
2. Jonathan Drouin 29gp-22g-36a-58pts (13th overall)
1. Nathan MacKinnon 35gp-26g-34a-60pts (10th overall)

Top 5 plus/minus
5. Jonathan Drouin +27
4. Darcy Ashley +28
3. Luca Ciampini +28
2. Nathan MacKinnon +34
1. MacKenzie Weegar +35

MacKinnon is also second on the team in shots and points per game, and is tied for first with Jonathan in short handed goals. While Fournier leads the team in power play goals and shots, Drouin still leads the team in points per game, while six players are still tied for second on the team with one short handed goal.

Goalies:
Zach Fucale 30-4-1-1 37gp 2148.50 minutes GAA - 2.49 SAV% - 0.897
Chris Clarke 8-0-1-0 9gp 567.08 minutes GAA - 2.96 SAV% - 0.888

Fucale is first overall in wins, second overall in goals against average and tenth overall in saves percentage.

We're going to the playoffs

Your Mooseheads have clinched a berth to the 2013 QMJHL playoffs after beating Quebec 11-2 tonight in Quebec City. Konrad scored two goals in the high scoring game to become the all-time leading defenceman scorer for the Herd. Weegar and Drouin both got 4 points in the win; MacKenzie had 4 assists while Jonathan had a goal and 3 assists. Boudreau also added to his team leading goals total and now has 31 on the season. This is only the third time the Moose have won in Quebec versus the Remparts. The red, green and gold will play against Quebec next weekend in Halifax.

Halifax will look to win a second straight game versus a Quebec team tomorrow as they continue their 3-in-3 night road trip.

Halifax to play each Quebec and Sherbrooke twice over 8 days

The Herd will play 8 straight games against Quebec teams. This includes a 3-in-3 night road trip which starts tonight against the Remparts. Halifax will also play both Quebec and Sherbrooke twice before the end of the month.

Halifax at Quebec (W 11-2)
Halifax at Sherbrooke (W 5-0)
Halifax at Blainville-Boisbraind (W 4-3)
Sherbrooke at Halifax (W 7-2)
Quebec at Halifax (L 4-2)
Halifax at Chicoutimi (W 7-0 )
Halifax at Baie-Comeau (W 3-1)
Rimouski at Halifax (W 5-4)

Nathan still unable to defeat Jones

After 3 games between these top 2 ranked NHL draft eligible players, Nathan MacKinnon of your Halifax Mooseheads still has not been able to defeat Seth Jones of the Portland Winterhawks. The forward and defenceman have played against each other twice before playing in tonight's CHL/NHL Top Prospects game. They first met in the 2011 U-17 World Championships, as USA and Jones dominated Team Atlantic and MacKinnon 12-1. This past December they met again as Seth and USA again beat Nathan and Canada in medal standings by winning gold at the 2013 U-20 Ice Hockey World Championships. However, during round-robin play Team Canada beat USA to finish first in their group undefeated, but undefeated in round-robin doesn't mean it will continue. This was the case as, after USA beat the Czechs in the quarters, they also beat Team Canada in the semis to play for gold while Canada was forced to play for bronze. Seth won gold while Nathan and Canada lost the last game to place fourth. This time around in Halifax, Jones and his team; Team Orr shutdown Nathan and Team Cherry, winning this years prospects game 3-0. Seth earned a point in tonight's win.

Team Orr, coached by Nova Scotia's own Mike McPhee were considered the home team and wore white jerseys. After each goal, the players of Team Orr were the only ones celebrating. Not one person in the crowd actually cheered after the goals as is normally the case when the home team scores. By 6 and a half minutes in, the white team was outshooting the red team (Cherry) 9-2 and led after one period 1-0. The only penalties in the first 40 minutes were 2 fighting majors for each team. The shots were closer after the second but by the end of the period Orr was up 3-0. Both teams switched goalies with about 8 minutes left in the period. The third brought more shooting by the 'home' team and only 3 penalties but no more scoring. The finals shots were 36-20 for Team Orr.

Notes: This was the first ever shutout of the event... Rimouski was represented by four players, the most of any team... Captain Oshawa was in attendance as the winner of BMO's ultimate fan contest (congrats)...

Players of the game: Laurant Dauphin (Orr) and Tristen Jarry (Cherry)

50/50
Congratulations to Jen of Grand Lake who got $19,638 winning tonight's 50/50

Attendance: SELLOUT (10,595)

Psst, Nathan, Jonathan and Zach get back to business on Friday as they head to Quebec and with a win or a point and a Shawinigan loss will be able to clinch a playoff spot.

Jan 16: Top prospects game

On Wednesday, the home arena of your Halifax Mooseheads will host the 18th annual CHL/NHL Top Prospects game at 8pm Atlantic time. The game will pit the top 40 Canadian Hockey League players that are draft eligible in 2013 playing for either Team Orr or Team Cherry. The game will feature a couple of Nova Scotians, including Mooseheads star forward Nathan MacKinnon and Team Orr coach Mike McPhee of Sydney. Three Moosehead players will be playing all on the same team under the coaching eye of Don Cherry. NHL teams will all have scouts at the game to see these exciting draft eligible players, about 200 personnel were already slated to be in attendence by Monday. 20 scouts were at the game on Friday vs. Blainville to see the return of Nate and Joe.

Here are the rosters:
Team Orr (white)
Coached by - Mike McPhee, assisted by Doug MacLean and Dominique Duchrame
Captained by - Seth Jones, alternates Sean Monahan and Hunter Shinkaruk

Forwards: Justin Bailey (Kitchener Rangers), Oliver Bjorkstrand (Portland Winterhawks), Max Domi (London Knights), Anthony Duclair (Quebec Remparts), Adam Erne (Quebec Remparts), Bo Horvat (London Knights), Curtis Lazar (Edmonton Oil Kings), Sean Monahan (Ottawa 67's), Nicolas Petan (Portland Winterhawks), Kerby Rychel (Windsor Spitfires), Hunter Shinkaruk (Medicine Hat Tigers) and Nick Sorensen (Quebec Remparts)

Defencemen: Chris Bigras (Owen Sound Attack), Madison Bowey (Kelowna Rockets), Seth Jones (Portland Winterhawks), Jan Kostalek (Rimouski Oceanic), Shea Theodore (Seattle Thunderbirds) and Nikita Zadorov (London Knights)

Goaltenders: Philippe Desrosiers (Rimouski Oceanic) and Spencer Martin (Mississauga Steelheads)

Team Cherry (red)
Coached by - Don Cherry, assisted by Nick Kypreos, Brian Kilrea and Bert O'Brian
Captained by - Nathan MacKinnon, alternates Jonathan Drouin and Darnell Nurse

Forwards: Cole Cassels (Oshawa Generals), Jason Dickinson (Guelph Storm), Jonathan Drouin (Halifax Mooseheads), Frederik Gauthier (Rimouski Oceanic), Stephen Harper (Erie Otters), Ryan Hartman (Plymouth Whalers), Morgan Klimchuk (Regina Pats), Ryan Kujawinski (Kingston Frontenacs), Nathan MacKinnon (Halifax Mooseheads), Anthony Mantha (Val-d'Or Foreurs), Zach Nastasiuk (Owen Sound Attack) and Valentin Zykov (Baie-Comeau Drakkar)

Defencemen: Samuel Morin (Rimouski Oceanic), Josh Morrissey (Prince Albert Raiders), Mirco Mueller (Everett Silvertips), Darnell Nurse (Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds), Eric Roy (Brandon Wheat Kings) and Jordan Subban (Belleville Bulls)

Goaltenders: Zachary Fucale (Halifax Mooseheads) and Tristan Jarry (Edmonton Oil Kings)

Shutouts still evading #1 ranked CHL team

It was a battle of a couple of the top teams in the Q tonight. The home team jumped out to a quick 3-0 lead in the first period. There was no scoring in the second period. The Moose thought they had scored a fourth goal (and it definitely went in) but the refs said no goal, however the home players stopped playing and the Armada skated down to our end and scored. The goal was reviewed and was still counted as no goal so Blainville's goal stood. The visiting team also had a goal reviewed but it also stood. Despite the best overall record in the league, the red, green and gold still have not been able to record a shutout this season.

Notes: Matt Murphy and Steve MacAulay played for the first time in front of the home fans... Ciampini recorded his 100th career point with a goal in the first period... Only the second time the Herd have been outshot at home this season...

50/50
Congratulations to Jennifer of Shubenacadie who got $14,004 winning tonight's 50/50

Three stars:
3. Lewis (HAL)
2. Roy (BLB)
1. Boudreau (HAL)

Lewis also received Dickies hardest working player of the game.

Attendance: 9,628

Cam Russell presented MacKinnon, Drouin, Frk and Xavier Ouellet with special plaques after representing their countries at the World Juniors with all four boys getting standing ovations.


Score
Armada 2 at Mooseheads 4

UP NEXT: versus PEI tomorrow night at the Metro Centre

Jan 11: Blainville-Boisbriand vs. Mooseheads game preview

Blainville-Boisbriand make their only visit to Moose Country during this campaign. This is also the first game that Halifax will play this second year team this season. This game will feature the top six players in the plus/minus standings. Samuel Carrier (+31) of Blainville leads the QMJHL in this category followed by Mooseheads Ciampini (+30), MacKinnon (+28), Weegar (+28), and Ashley who is tied for 5th with Armada's Tommy Giroux at +27. The line of Ashley, Ciampini and Boudreau will look to continue their hot streak of 2013. The trio has combined for 15 points in the first four games of the new year.
After losing two in a row for the first time this season last weekend, the Mooseheads came back and beat Acadie-Bathurst on Wednesday night on the road, and are now 8-1-1-0 in their last 10 games overall while Blainville is 3-6-0-1 in their last 10. The Herd's home win streak was snapped with an overtime loss a week ago and are now 18-1-1-0 at the Metro Centre this season. This will mark the return of 6 players from Ufa, with Xavier Ouellet (CAN), Nikita Jerpavlos (LAT), and Christian Marti (SUI) returning to the Armada and MacKinnon, Drouin and Frk finally returning to the home team.

Overall record:
BLB: 24-12-1-4 = 53 points (T-1st in Telus West Division, T-3rd overall)
HFX: 34-4-2-1 = 69 points (1st in Maritimes Division, 1st overall)

Top Scorers:
ARMADA: #18 Cedric Paquette (16G, 34A, 50 PTS), #57 Christopher Clapperton (20G, 27A, 47 PTS), #28 Tommy Giroux (23G, 23A, 46 PTS)
HALIFAX: #22 Nathan MacKinnon (22G, 30A, 52 PTS), #27 Jonathan Drouin (19G, 29A, 48 PTS), #48 Luca Ciampini (14G, 32A, 46 PTS)

link to preview on the website: http://www.halifaxmooseheads.ca/article/game-preview-moose-vs-armada-tonight-at-7

Mooseheads make moves at trade deadline

After losing on Friday to Saint John in overtime, Halifax and the Sea Dogs made a trade with each other on Saturday afternoon. The Mooseheads received overager Stephen MacAulay, while Saint John received Halifax's 4th round pick in 2013 and their 2nd round pick in 2014. Monday evening the Moose also traded for defenceman Matt Murphy who played the first half with the Val-d'Or Foreurs. They also received a 2nd round pick in 2014 from the Quebec team which was originally Sherbrooke's pick. The Foreurs received defenceman Randy Gazzola, a 1st round pick in 2014 and 2015. Murphy was selected 5th overall in the 2011 Q draft behind now fellow teammates Nathan and Jonathan.

The team also announced on Wednesday that they have released goalie Anthony Terenzio and defenceman Steve Gillard from the team. Terenzio announced that he will be joining the Whitecourt Wolverines of the Alberta Junior Hockey League. Gillard however will be staying in Nova Scotia to play with the Woodstock Slammers of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. Steve should make his debut on Friday when the Slammers take on Dieppe.

Look back on Friday for the game preview and the review when Halifax will take on Blainville-Broisbraind and Moose Country will welcome home MacKinnon, Drouin and Frk.

GO MOOSE GO
Ranked #1 in the country (9th week in a row)

Teddy Bear toss-ed

Your Halifax Mooseheads had their home winning streak finished Friday night in overtime to the Saint John Sea Dogs. Tonight's game was the annual Teddy Bear toss, with all teddies going to the Ronald McDonald House. Lindsay was the Moose to score the Teddy toss goal 13 minutes into the second. Saint John tied the game at two with less than a minute left in the third period to force overtime. Very little penalties were called during the game. Despite the low score and losing, the red, white and gold outshot the Dogs by almost double, with shots ending 45-24.

Notes: Brian Lovell recorded his first career Q point with an assist on the first goal... This was the Mooseheads 1300th regular season game of all time... Halifax's home winning streak ended at 18 games...

50/50
Congratulations to someone from Saint John who got $10,702 winning tonight's 50/50

Three stars:
3. Fournier (HAL)
2. Izacky (SNB)
1. Auger (SNB)

Attendence: 8,452

Mooseheads president presented a member of the Atlantic Breast Cancer Foundation a cheque for the money raised October 19th Pink in the Rink game.


Score
Sea Dogs 3 at Mooseheads 2 OT

UP NEXT: versus PEI on Sunday at the Charlottetown Civic Centre

Penalties hurt Moncton but not Halifax

The Halifax Mooseheads started the 2013 part of their season playing the 7th overall Moncton Wildcats and won handily so. Though through the first 30 minutes it seemed like the refs were blind/putting their whistles away, the second half was rattled with penalties many of which game from two fights. Ryan received a penalty shot but was unable to make it a 2-0 game for the home team, who were losing 2-1 after 20 minutes. Moncton's Narbonne was booted out of the game after he banged his stick on the glass while in the penalty box after the home crowd went wild when Fournier scored on the powerplay. After being down 3-1 early in the second the red, white and green finally lead after a Brendan Duke goal which was the third goal in less then 6 minutes for the Mooseheads. Duke was kicked out however in the third period for instigating a fight with Yannick Veilleux, while the Moncton player also got thrown out for fighting and kicking at Duke. The second fight started when Ciampini fell on top of goalie Alex Dubeau late in the third with a Moncton player pulling Luca off the goalie. Everybody on the ice got in it; Dubeau, Ciampini and Racine (I think) were fighting on the ice which resulted in the Wildcat goalie getting booted and will now serve an automatic suspension. 

Notes: Alcalde was not in the line up because of a one game automatic suspension for an incident during Saturday's game... After being out for 11 games and scoring 3 points tonight, Konrad Abeltshauser is now second all time in points by a Mooseheads defenceman... Beachemin now has 11 points on an 8 game point streak...

50/50
Congratulations to Tony of Eastern Passage who got $7,009 winning tonight's 50/50

Three stars:
3. Ryan (HAL)
2. Ashley (HAL)
1. Duke (HAL)

Ashley also received Dickies hardest working player of the game

Attendence: 6,972

Marty Frk and the Czech Republic will play for 5th place in the World Juniors tomorrow while Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin will play for the bronze medal on Saturday.  


Score
Wildcats 3 at Mooseheads 7

UP NEXT: versus Saint John tomorrow night at the Metro Centre

Jan 3: Moncton vs. Mooseheads game preview

Tonight, the Mooseheads are playing their first game of 2013 against the Moncton Wildcats. These two teams have met three times already this season with the Moose winning two of the contests. The latest contest turned out to be a 8-6 win for the red, green and gold on December 15 in Moncton where Matt Boudreau scored a hat trick and Wildcats' Christophe Lalonde got four of Moncton's goals. The only loss for Halifax in this series came in Moncton with the Cats winning 3-0 on the last Sunday afternoon of November.
The Mooseheads are riding a 7 game winning streak and are 9-0-1-0 in their last 10 games overall, while Moncton is 5-4-1-0 in their last 10 and are 9-10-0-0 on the road this season. Halifax still has not lost at home since the opener and is now 17-1-0-0 at the Metro Centre this season with 14 more home games to go after tonight. MacKinnon, Drouin and Frk will not be in the lineup as they are still playing in the World Juniors in Ufa.

Overall record:
MON: 23-14-1-0 = 47 points (2nd in Maritimes Division, 7th overall)
HAL: 31-3-1-1 = 64 points (1st in Maritimes Division, 1st overall)

Top Scorers:
WILDCATS: #19 Allain Saulnier (18G, 34A, 52 PTS), #26 Dmitri Jaskin (23G, 27A, 50 PTS), #21 Alex Saulnier (18G, 29A, 47 PTS)
HALIFAX: #22 Nathan MacKinnon (22G, 30A, 52 PTS), #27 Jonathan Drouin (19G, 29A, 48 PTS), #57 Matthew Boudreau (27G, 13A, 40 PTS)