The Chronicle Herald's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads made history Friday night at the Metro Centre.
Metro Halifax's recap: The inevitable was finally realized on Friday night.
The Canadian Press' recap: The Halifax Mooseheads are going to Saskatoon.
QMJHL.ca's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads recorded three unanswered first period goals en route to a 5-1 victory over the Baie-Comeau Drakkar and capture their first ever Quebec Major Junior Hockey League championship in front of a sellout crowd of 10,595 ecstatic fans at the Metro Centre in Halifax.
CBCNews' recap: After a near sweep of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League finals, the Halifax Mooseheads made franchise history, winning the President Cup.
MISSING IN ACTION: Liam Alcalde (healthy), Brennan Bailey (healthy), Jonathan Lacroix-Courville (healthy), Trey Lewis (suspended), Max Lindsay (healthy) and Brian Lovell (healthy) did not play for the Mooseheads. Gabriel Verpaelst (suspended) and Alec Jon Banville (suspended, 2 games) did not play for Baie-Comeau.
MACAULAY: Stephen MacAulay played in his 75th and last junior playoff game last night. He scored 2 goals and had one penalty in the game. The win gave him his 3rd straight President's Cup victory. He will be looking for his second Memorial Cup when the Mooseheads start the tournament a week from today in Saskatoon.
DROUIN: Jonathan Drouin scored the second goal of Game 5. He was named Playoff MVP after the game while leading the Q in points with 35 in seventeen games.
MACKINNON: Nathan MacKinnon ended the night with a goal and an assist, a +2 rating and a penalty. He was 24 for 36 at the faceoff dot. Nate finished the playoffs with 33 points, tied for second in the league.
CADORETTE: Philippe Cadorette had a much better showing tonight only allowing 4 goals on 24 shots.
OVERAGERS: Three 20 year olds were on this year's championship team; Stephen MacAulay, Stefan Fournier and Konrad Abeltshauser. Fournier had a goal, a +1 rating and a penalty in his last Q league game. MacAulay scored twice, had a +1 rating and a interference penalty while Abeltshauser had 2 assists and a +2 rating.
THIRD: In the third period, there was 2 goals by the Moosheads and no penalties. It was the first time I believe that there has been no penalties in the last frame in a game that the Herd have participated in.
RECORD: Halifax was unable to beat the record for consecutive wins to start a playoff season when they lost Game 3 in Baie-Comeau to end their streak at 14 games (Hull went 15-0 in 1986). With a 16-1 record in the playoffs, the Moose finish the season with a 74-7-3-1 record in important games.
50/50: Last night's fifty-fifty winner won $39,862
SCORES
Barrie 4 - 6 London (BAR leads 3-2)
Edmonton 3 - 2 Portland OT (POR leads 3-2)
NEXT GAME: The Mooseheads will now travel to Saskatoon with their first game of the Memorial Cup on May 18 against the WHL champion.
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