GAMEDAY 44: vs Acadie-Bathurst

IT"S GAMEDAY

HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS vs. ACADIE-BATHURST TITAN

Puck drops at 7:00pm

Metro Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

PREVIEW - Matt Boudreau makes another return to Moose Country but with a different team this time. Just before Christmas, Boudreau was traded to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan from the Victoriaville Tigres and he's been pretty good with his new team. He has 6 assists in 5 games with the Titan on the first line with newly acquired Scott Oke and Raphael Lafontaine. The Halifax Mooseheads will look to stop him and his new team when they come storming in to Moose Country and get back into the good graces of their home fans after their first defeat of 2014 last night.


Halifax is a perfect 5 and 0 versus Bathurst this season after winning a big game back in late November at home. Jonathan Drouin had a goal and 4 assists to help the Moose win 9-2 while Zach Fucale made 25 saves for the victory.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
BAT: Matt Boudreau 30pts (9G & 21A), Scott Oke 28pts (13G & 15A), Alexandros Soumakis 23pts (14G & 9A)
HAL: Nikolaj Ehlers 56pts (23G & 33A), Jonathan Drouin 50pts (17G & 33A), Darcy Ashley 47pts (18G & 29A)

LAST GAMES
Halifax is coming off a 5-1 loss against the Moncton Wildcats on Friday night in their teddy bear toss game. Darcy Ashley scored the teddy throwing goal at 8:10 of the third period but it wasn't enough and neither was the 28 saves Kevin Darveau made.

The Titan invited the Shawinigan Cataractes in to the KC on Thursday night and skated away with a 5-4 overtime win. Jacob Brennan has still played strong for Acadie and stopped 24 of 28 shots while the offense was led by Alexandros Soumakis, Christophe Boivin and Boudreau.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season    5-0-0-0   29GF   13GA
September 25   Titan 3 at Mooseheads 5
October 25   Mooseheads 5 at Titan 2
October 26   Titan 3 at Mooseheads 4
November 16   Mooseheads 6 at Titan 3
November 22   Titan 2 at Mooseheads 9
January 11 @ 7pm   Titan at Mooseheads
January 19 @ 3pm   Mooseheads at Titan
February 16 @ 3pm   Mooseheads at Titan
February 28 @ 7pm   Mooseheads at Titan
Last season    6-0-2-0   50GF      35GA

NOT PLAYING - Zach Fucale and Jonathan Drouin are in Quebec staying with family, Austyn Hardie (suspension) and Andrew Ryan (injured)

OUT OF TOWN
Eagles at Tigres - 5:00pm
Cataractes at Wildcats - 7:00pm
Sea Dogs at Remparts - 8:00pm
Drakkar at Huskies - 8:00pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @MC_MooseCountry
Radio: News 95.7, CKLE 92.9
Webcast: TELUS
Post-game: The Q News

AFTER THE GAME
The makeup game for last Friday's postponed tilt against the Charlottetown Islanders. Puck drops at 7pm on Wednesday night.