Moose Win Big Against The Wildcats

Photo - Myles Dennis

Your Halifax Mooseheads set a new franchise record for goals scored at home tonight with a huge offensive performance against the Moncton Wildcats. The game started with all the momentum going in the Mooseheads way when they opened the scoring a minute and twenty-six seconds into the game, but then after that, they sat back and let the Wildcats back into the game with the Wildcats scoring three goals in the span of four minutes. As things started to calm a bit and the Mooseheads went on the power play they made the most of the opportunity scoring less than a minute in. After the power play goal by McIssac, the floodgates opened your Mooseheads, they then scored nine unanswered goals to take a 10-3 lead early in the third. In the third Moncton got two back with goals from Fox and Phelan. While tempers started to boil there was a hit on Fortier that the Mooseheads players did not like and it saw Connor Moynihan as well as Max Fortier finding a partner and both fighting and subsequently being done for the night. With just under three minutes to go Benoit-Olivier Groulx scored for the moose and with that goal, it set a new record of 12 goals being scored in a game by the home team. Tempers were high in the last seconds of the game seeing Alex Gravel getting run which drew a crowd to stand up for their goalie.

FINAL: Wildcats 5 at Mooseheads 12
Stars: 3. Filip Zadina HAL | 2. Benoit-Olivier Groulx HAL | 1. Connor Moynihan HAL
Attendance: 7,913
MC’s Top Herd: Benoit-Olivier Groulx

GAME LOG
First period
1:26 HAL Jake Ryzcek (5)| A: McIssac & Fortier
3:37 MON Dylan Seitz (15) | A: Stewart
5:57 MON Danill Miromanov (6) | A: Pelletier & McKenna
7:49 MON Nicholas Welsh (10), PP | A: Miromanov & McKenna
14:33 HAL Jared McIssac (8), PP | A: Somppi & Zadina
17:32 HAL Connor Moynihan (16) | A: Groulx & Flower
19:23 HAL Arnaud Durandeau (17), SH | A: None

Second period
5:43 Connor Moynihan (17) | A: Fortier & Groulx
9:26 HAL Benoit-Olivier Groulx (22) | A: Fortier & Moynihan
13:24 HAL Raphael Lavoie (23), PP | A: Barron & Ryczek
16:52 HAL Filip Zadina (36) | A: Durandeau
17:54 HAL Otto Somppi (22) | A: Zadina & Lavoie

Third period
1:05 HAL Filip Zadina (37), PP | A: McIssac & Groulx
11:51 MON Casey Fox (3) | A: Welsh & Miromanov
12:32 MON James Phelan (22), PP | A: McKenna & Miromanov
12:53 HAL Otto Somppi (23) | A: Lavoie & Ryczek
17:08 HAL Benoit-Olivier Groulx (23) | A: Parent & Petten

Shots: 38-37 in favour of Halifax
Powerplay: MON – 2-for-5; HAL – 3-for-9

NOT DRESSED – Cooper Jones (healthy), Joel Bishop (injured), Blade Mann-Dixon (injured) and Ryan Barbosa (healthy)

SCORES
Bathurst 1 at Cape Breton 2 OT
Armada 5 at Tigre 2
Rempart 2 at Voltigeur 0
Drakkar 2 at Olympique 5
Sagueneens 0 at Oceanic 2
Islanders 2 at Huskies 1
Phoenix 5 at Cataracts 4 OT
Sea Dogs 2 at Foreurs 3 OT

UP NEXT: Halifax will welcome Rimouski to town on Monday afternoon for a Family Day matchup. Puck drop is at 2pm.