Thursday, March 06, 2014

GAMEDAY 64: vs Charlottetown

IT'S GAMEDAY
HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS vs. CHARLOTTETWON ISLANDERS 
Puck drops at 7:00pm
Metro Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

PREVIEW - What is tonight going to bring? Your Halifax Mooseheads are on a roll and are one of the hottest teams right now. Despite winning all three games this past week, the Moose find themselves still in the honorable mentions in the BMO chl top 10 rankings last night. Halifax has already clinched the division title for the second straight season. Nikolaj Ehlers will try to make history tonight and continue his point streak as will JONATHAN Drouin. Ehlers had hat tricks in each of the games this past week with the first two being natural hattie's. He also collected an assist in each of those 2 games. He comes into tonight's game on a 8 game point streak. Jonathan takes a 4 goal 9 game point streak into tonight's tilt versus the Islanders. 

Charlottetown on the other hand is battling for their lives trying to stay in the hunt for one of the last 3 playoff spots. They're doing a good job of late, collecting at least a point in their last three games. The last 2 games were against a team they are trying to push down the leaderboard, the Acadie-Bathurst Titan. The Oslanders will have to dig deep to defeat the home team tonight and not relay on a couple of their rookies who are leading the charge.


These two teams met on February 19 at the Metro Centre with the home team scoring 3 goals in the first period on route to a 5-1 victory. Nikolaj Ehlers had yet another 2 goal game and added 2 assists for a four point night to help the home team win.

THE NUMBERS


















Leading scorers
CHA: Daniel Sprong 59pts (25G & 34A), Alexandre Goulet 43pts (25G & 18A), Kameron Kielly 30pts (10G & 20A)
HAL: Jonathan Drouin 95pts (25G & 70A), Nikolaj Ehlers 94pts (46G & 48A), Darcy Ashley 72pts (26G & 46A)

LAST GAMES
Halifax visited provincial rivals Cape Breton on Tuesday and scored 5 goals in each of the first 2 period en route to a 10-1 beating of the Screaming Eagles. Nikolaj Ehlers scored his third straight hat trick and Jonathan Drouin had 6 points  while Zach Fucale made 30 saves for the almost shutout.

Charlottetown is coming off a win against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at home, coming from behind to win 3-1. Daniel Sprong and Kameron Kielly scored a goal each to add to their point totals and Mason McDonald stopped 23 shots for the victory.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season       6-1-0-0     29GF      15GA
September 13   Mooseheads 2 at Islanders 5
October 23   Islanders 2 at Mooseheads 4
November 15   Mooseheads 4 at Islanders 3
December 8  Mooseheads 4 at Islanders 1
January 3   Islanders at Mooseheads POSTPONED
January 8   Mooseheads 5 at Islanders 2
January 15  Islanders 1 at Mooseheads 5
February 19  Islanders 1 at Mooseheads 5
March 6 @ 7pm Islanders at Mooseheads
March 11 @ 7pm Mooseheads at Islanders
Last season   7-1-0-0   43GF   20GA

GAME COVERAGE
Live: @MC_MooseCountry, @islandersgmday
TV: None
Radio: News 95.7
Webcast: TELUS
Post-game: The Chronicle Herald

AFTER THE GAME
Halifax will travel to Saint John to take on the Sea Dogs at Harbour Station at 7pm. Join me for live in game tweeting as I will be joining the Mooster Club on this road trip.



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