GAMEDAY #10: vs. Cape Breton

GAMEDAY
HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS VS CAPE BRETON SCREAMING EAGLES
Puck drops at 7:00pm
TV: Webcast | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @MC_MooseCountry
Scotiabank Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

It's Pink in the Rink night! Your Halifax Mooseheads were one of the first teams to host such an event and now each QMJHL team participates in dedicating one game in October each year to raise money for breast cancer research in Canada. This evening is the 10th annual game of this event and will see the Herd take on the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles. Halifax will be looking to get back in the win column after losing 4 straight in the past 8 days. Pink in the Rink matches have raised an average of $110,000 a year since it became a league wide event. Fans can buy raffle tickets at the Scotiabank Centre for a chance to win a special game worn pink jersey from a Moosehead player with all money going to the Atlantic region of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. October 13-15 also happens to be rivalry week in the Q with different rival teams playing a home and home series against each other. As Cape Breton and Halifax are provincial rivals it only makes sense that the two teams would be pitted against each other this weekend in the first set of the Battle of Nova Scotia. The Screaming Eagles are another team that should be fighting for the division title at the end of the season with the Moose and Acadie-Bathurst Titan.

This is the second meeting between the two teams this season. Halifax is 0-1-0-0 against the Screaming Eagles while Cape Breton has a 1-0-0-0 record versus the Mooseheads. The last matchup was actually last night in Sydney where the Eagles skated away with a 4-3 victory. Filip Zadina scored twice to lead the Herd and Alexis Gravel made 23 saves to take the loss.

OVERALL RECORDS
Screaming Eagles: 6-4-0-0 = 12 points (2nd in Maritimes division, 4th overall)
Mooseheads: 4-3-2-0 = 10 points (4th in Maritimes division, 10th overall)

LEADING SCORERS
HAL: Maxime Fortier 13pts (6G & 7A), Filip Zadina 12pts (6G & 6A), Arnaud Dirandeau 10pts (4G & 6A)
CAP: Drake Batherson 13pts (7G & 6A), Egor Sokolov 7pts (4G & 3A), Jordan Ty Fournier 6pts (3G & 3A)

PREVIOUS GAMES
See above.

ALUM ON EAGLES
None

MISSING IN ACTION - Jordan Lepage and Walter Flower are out with injuries still

HEAD-TO-HEAD
October 13  Halifax 3 at Cape Breton 4
October 14  Cape Breton at Halifax - 7pm
October 28  Halifax at Cape Breton - 7pm
November 18  Cape Breton at Halifax - 2pm
December 13  Halifax at Cape Breton - 7pm
December 16  Cape Breton at Halifax - 7pm|
December 30  Cape Breton at Halifax - 2pm
December 31  Halifax at Cape Breton - 2pm
January 19  Cape Breton at Halifax - 7pm

OUT OF TOWN
Voltigeurs vs. Phoenix   4:00pm
Drakkar vs. Sagueneens   5:00pm
Armada vs. Olympiques   5:00pm
Islanders vs. Titan   7:00pm
Sea Dogs vs. Wildcats   7:00pm
Foreurs vs. Huskies   8:00pm
Tigres vs. Cataractes   8:00pm

AFTER THE BUZZER
Halifax will stay home for another game, hosting the Moncton Wildcats on Tuesday evening. Puck drops at 7pm.