Your Halifax Mooseheads have clinched their 5th division title in franchise history. The Herd were playing in Saint John last night and they only needed one point to clinch the division. Halifax had a chance to clinch on Tuesday if Moncton lost their game in any way against Acadie-Bathurst Titan. The Wildcats obviously didn't want to help their Maritime rivals as they beat the Titan, another Maritime team, 5-1 in Moncton. The Moose were able to get the point they needed to clinch the title as the defeated the Sea Dogs 8-3 riding on Jonathan Drouin and Marty Frk each getting 4 points. Frk scored a hat trick and assisted on another one while Drouin was the opposite scoring one goal and recording 3 assists. Stephen MacAulay scored a goal against his old team that traded him in January. He also assisted on a goal. Weegar, Duke and Abeltshauser also had multi-point night. One of Mackenzie's points was a goal while Ciampini and Ryan scored the other goals. Jurij Repe, Maxime Villemaire and Matthew Highmore scored the goals for the Dogs. SJ decided to pull their starting goalie after Halifax scored 6 goals against him. No one recorded more then one penalty during the game. Chris Clarke recorded his 10th win of the season as starting goalie for the Herd.
Not only did your Mooseheads clinch the division title last night but they also broke two franchise records. The team has now recorded the most wins in a season with their 47th win. Forty six was the previous record which was in the 1998-99 season. They also recorded their 22nd road win which is also a new franchise record, the previous was 21 set during the 2007-08 season.
The team decided to give Zach Fucale the night off which I believe was quite deserved after winning 3 games in the past week and being named CHL goalie of the week. With the team winning on Saturday, he also recorded a franchise record for most wins in one season by a goaltender receiving his 36 W of the season.
This is a little late but congratulations are again in order, I think, as your team swept its second 3-in-3 nights tilt.
Notes: There are twelve games left in the season and half of those are at home starting with a rematch against the Sea Dogs tomorrow night at the MC. A half century worth of wins is looking pretty good now as the Moose have now won their last 5 games. As aforementioned this was Halifax's fifth title, the last one being in the 2007-08 season.
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