The Canadian Press's recap: Zachary Fucale made 28 saves and Stefan Fournier had a goal and two assists as the Halifax Mooseheads defeated the Baie-Comeau Drakkar 4-0 in Game 1 of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League final on Friday.
Metro Halifax's recap: They say defence wins championships, and the Halifax Mooseheads proved up to the task in Game 1 of their QMJHL final.
The Chronicle Herald's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads are one step closer to the Memorial Cup.
HalifaxMooseheads.ca's recap: The Moose have jumped out to a 1-0 series lead in the President Cup Finals on the strength of Zach Fucale 28-save shutout Friday night at the Metro Centre.
MISSING IN ACTION: Max Lindsay, Brian Lovell, Liam Alcalde, Brennan Bailey, Jonathan Lacroix-Courville were all healthy scratches.
ABELTSHAUSER: Konrad Abeltshauser scored his first goal of this year's playoffs. It was a very nice in tight goal, nobody was really sure who scored it but it was deemed to be Konrad's. ]
FUCALE: Zach became the second Moose player to receive the fur coat for the second time as he kept it from the last round. Fucale made 28 saves many of them very nice ones. He had a Patrick Roy moment:
FALKENHAM: Ryan Falkenham scored his first playoff goal in his career last night.
SOLD OUT: Last night's game was only the second sellout of this years playoffs. With tonight's sellout, the Mooseheads are averaging 10,091 fans per home game.
SCOUTS: There were many scouts at the game last night, with about 20 to 30 scouts from different teams.
ROUGHING: There was plenty of rough stuff last night. The Drakkar kept up with the rough stuff from their previous series and tried to get the Herd to fight with them but Halifax hardly responded as much as Baie-Comeau wanted them to.
50/50: Last night's fifty-fifty winner won $27,701 a new team record
SCORES
Barrie 4 - 2 London (BAR leads 1-0)
Edmonton 4 - 1 Portland (EDM leads 1-0)
NEXT GAME: Halifax and Baie-Comeau get back at it for Game 2 tonight at the Metro Centre. Puck drops at 7pm.
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