Schedule for Round 2 out

PLAYOFFS

#1 Halifax Mooseheads vs #13 Gatineau Olympiques

2nd round

The Gatineau Olympiques and your Halifax Mooseheads announced their second round battle schedule today.

HALIFAX - We are now less then a week away from round two starting as the Mooseheads announced the schedule for the next step towards a cup. Halifax hasn't played a game in almost a week as they were able to dispose of Saint John very quickly in the opening round. Gatineau comes in to the second round as the lowest seed after defeating the 4th seed Rimouski Oceanic in six games. This series will be a bit tougher for the Mooseheads as barely anybody projected that any teams in the top eight would get ousted. These two teams don't play very often but have some rich history and some pretty interesting playoff history against each other.

DISTANCE - Most playoff series are a 2-2-1-1-1 scenario, however in junior hockey that does not always happen because of the ages the players are on the teams. One would have to drive for approximately 1400 kilometres to get Gatineau from Halifax and because most teams do not fly, this series will be a 2-3-2 scenario.

HEAD-TO-HEAD ~ all-time: 24 games 11-12-1; this season: 2 games 1-1-0-0; playoffs: 16 games 7-7-2-0

LAST GAME - the Olympiques are coming off a 2 to 1 Game 6 win in Round 1 of the President's Cup playoffs on Sunday. Halifax also won their last game in the first round by a score of 6-1 in Game 4to sweep the series.

Playoffs tickets for game one on Friday and game two on Saturday are available on Wednesday at 10am at the Ticket Atlantic Box Office, select Superstores, www.ticketatlantic.com or by calling (902) 451-1221

Game #1
Friday April 5 @ 7:00pm at Halifax Metro Centre ~ Halifax, NS
Game #2
Saturday April 6 @ 7:00pm at Halifax Metro Centre ~ Halifax, NS
Game #3
Tuesday April 9 @ 8:30pm at Robert Guertin Centre ~ Gatineau, QC
Game #4
Wednesday April 10 @ 8:30pm at Robert Guertin Centre ~ Gatineau, QC
Game #5*
Friday April 12 @ 8:30pm at Robert Guertin Centre ~ Gatineau, QC
Game #6*
Sunday April 14 @ 7:00pm at Halifax Metro Centre ~ Halifax, NS
Game #7* 
Monday April 15 @ 7:00pm at Halifax Metro Centre ~ Halifax, NS

*if necessary

P.S. This is not an April Fool's joke