Halifax lose opener 4-0 against Moncton
Three Stars: 3. Drover MON | 2. Barbashev MON | 1. Dubeau MON
Attendance: 9,301
50/50 Winning Draw: Congratulations to Max Ferguson of Bedford who got $11,512 winning last night's fifty-fifty
MC's Top Herd: Nikolaj Ehlers
Dickie's Player of the Game: not announced
HALIFAX - Jody Shelley, Jason King and Travis Randell came back to where it all began for them to help raise the championship banners with your 2013-14 Halifax Mooseheads on opening night.
The Chronicle Herald's recap: The celebration had to end eventually.
hockeyscene.com's recap: The night was intended to be a night of celebration for the Halifax Mooseheads.
Canadian Press' recap: The Moncton Wildcats spoiled the Halifax Mooseheads' party.
Metro Halifax's recap: It wasn’t supposed to unfold like this.
QMJHL.ca's recap: Game summary.
MISSING IN ACTION: MacKenzie Weegar (Panthers camp), Darcy Ashley (injury), Zach Fucale (Canadiens camp), Jacob Jacques (healthy) and Brent Andrews (Ducks camp) were missing from the bench. Scratches for Moncton were Mathieu Olivier, Tanner McCabe and Josh Pugsley.
TWEET OF THE NIGHT
PICTURES
To see the pictures I took during the game click here.
BANNER
There were some special guests that came to help raise the banner last night. Favourite Mooseheads player Jody Shelley returned, looking a little crippled, to huge applause from the fans. Travis Randell and Jason King, who just retired from pro hockey, were also there. Taking pictures didn't work very well as the banners were in the spotlight so you only got white.
ROOKIES
The rookies did pretty good last night. All I got to say about that.
NEW TEAM
Obviuosly with Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin turning pro and many other guys going pro after aging out of junior, Halifax looked different when they took on the Wildcats. There were 8 new players on the ice yesterday evening.
INTERNATIONALS
I had stated in my game preview that the coaching staff would have the international players on a line together becuase that was what happened in the preseason. Well, the line of Danny Moynihan, Nikolaj Ehlers and Timo Meier was not together last night. Ehlers was on the first line to play with Luca Ciampini and Ryan Falkenham.
LEWIS
Well Trey Lewis will once again lead this team. Last season he was co-captain with Stefan Fournier. This year he is the lone guy with the C on his chest. He played pretty good. Before the game, he brought out the Memorial Cup and placed it on the table they had to display the trophies for the pre-game ceremony.
EHLERS
Nikolaj Ehlers probably had the Mooseheads best chance to score when he went down the ice on a breakaway but couldn't put it through the Moncton goalies net.
DARVEAU
Kevin Darveau, the starting goaltender for Halifax, had an okay game. At times he looked solid while at others he let in some soft goals. He looked like he got hurt in the third period as he was tripped up and stayed down on the ice for a couple minutes but he was just crowded. Along with his 29 saves, he received two delay of game penalties. The trapezoid rule is back!
DUBEAU
Alex Dubeau of the Wildcats was a wall last night as shown by the shutout score. He made some very good saves in tight and on breakaways.
MY THOUGHTS: They need to find chemistry. Overall it was a good game but it didn't turn out the way the home fans wanted it to. Halifax lost last year's home opener so don't worry yet. Meier and Ehlers looked very good.
NEXT GAME
Halifax travels to Charlottetown today to play the Islanders at 7pm tonight.
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