Herd Word

Photo - Mariners Twitter

FRED PAGE CUP
A couple of former Halifax Mooseheads forwards will be hoping to represent eastern Canada at the Royal Bank Cup by winning the Fred Page Cup later this week. Brett Crossley, who played for the Herd from 2014 to 2018, helped his Yarmouth Mariners win the MJAHL playoff championship earlier in April. Crossley had 4 goals and 16 points in 14 games. The Mariners will join the Princeville Titan (LHJQ champions) and Ottawa Jr. A Senators (CCHL champions) as well as host Amherst Ramblers in the tournament. Amherst has another Moose alum in Caleb Rich who played for Halifax during the 2016-17 season. This is Rich's second season with the Ramblers. The Fred Page Cup is played from May 1-5, 2019.

Congrats to Brett and the Mariners on winning the Kent Cup. Good luck to all the teams and players,

PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Mooseheads goaltender Alexis Gravel was named the QMJHL's player of the week for the week ending May 29. The Asbestos, QC native had a 3-1 record over the past week in the playoffs with a 0.938 save percentage to help Halifax advance to the President Cup finals. In the three home games during their series with the Drummondville Voltigeurs, Gravel was named the first star after facing 35, 35 and 34 shots respectively in Game 3, 4 and 6. He was also named the CHL goaltender of the week today.

HOSTS
The Canadian Hockey League announced on April 19 the 6 host cities for the upcoming Canada/Russia series. Both QMJHL arenas are in the province of New Brunswick. For the 2nd time in the last three years, the Moncton Wildcats will be hosting a game. Below is the full schedule

Game 1 - Monday November 4 at Saint John, NB
Game 2 - Tuesday November 5 at Moncton, NB
Game 3 - Thursday November 7 at Kitchener, ON
Game 4 - Monday November 11 at London, ON
Game 5 - Wednesday November 13 at Saskatoon, SK
Game 6 - Thursday November 14 at Prince Albert, SK

QMJHL DRAFT
On the same day the Canada/Russia series hosts were announced, the QMJHL had their draft lottery and the winner ended up being the Saint John Sea Dogs. Even though they finished 17th in the league, Saint John had just a 4.8% chance to get the first overall pick because of trades that happened during the season. Val-d'Or received the Sea Dogs original pick while the pick Saint John won on was originally Blainville-Boisbriand's. For full story, click here.

MacKinnon getting interviewed on Sportsnet after Game 2
Photo - Avalanche Twitter

STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS
The first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs has finished and the final 8 teams have started to battle each other. There are three alumnus still in the running for the ultimate trophy, two of them are battling each other. Nathan MacKinnon helped the Colorado Avalanche advance to the second round for the first time since the 2007-08 season. MacKinnon had 3 goals and 8 points in 5 games versus the Calgary Flames and the Avalanche are now taking on the San Jose Sharks. Nathan has been getting a lot of praise from his peers and fans a like.

The Sharks include former Herd Timo Meier who had a goal and 4 points in their opening series against the Vegas Golden Knights. In the Eastern conference, Brad Marchand, who played 26 games with Halifax, and the Boston Bruins are taking on the Columbus Blue Jackets in the second round. Marchand scored all 9 of his points in the 1st round.

University Commitments Begin

With competition of the junior hockey season coming close to an end, university commitments have started to be announced. For Halifax Mooseheads alumni, the first one I have seen comes about Ryan Barbosa. 

The University of Windsor Lancers announced recently that Barbosa will join the team for the 2019-20 USports hockey season. 

Photo - Lancers Twitter

Ryan, a native of Mississauga, ON, joined the Herd at training camp in 2017 as a free agent invite and made the 2017-18 team where he collected 5 assists in 38 games. Halifax didn't bring him back for his overage season so he returned home and spent 2018-19 with the Mississauga Steelheads of the OHL. The 21-year-old defenceman had 3 goals and 18 points this past year with the Steelheads in the regular season but unfortunately they were swept in the first round of the playoffs by Sudbury. 

Good luck to Ryan with the Lancers next season. 

President Cup schedule

For the fourth time in franchise history, our Halifax Mooseheads have a spot in the President Cup finals and they'll take on the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies.

The schedule was announced after the completion of the semi-final series on Sunday evening. Halifax took their series versus the Drummondville Voltigeurs in 6 games yesterday afternoon while Rouyn-Noranda swept the Rimouski Oceanic in 4 games. These two clubs have met three times previously in the post-season but have never played each other for the league title. With Halifax advancing to the finals, the Huskies know that they will be the QMJHL representative in the Memorial Cup tournament no matter what happens. 

Find the schedule for the Huskies-Mooseheads series below:

Game 1  Thursday May 2 @ 8:00pm at Arena Iamgold
Game 2  Friday May 3 @ 8:00pm at Arena Iamgold
Game 3  Monday May 6 @ 8:00pm at Scotiabank Centre
Game 4  Tuesday May 7 @ 8:00pm at Scotiabank Centre
*Game 5  Thursday May 9 @ 8:00pm at Arena Iamgold
*Game 6  Saturday May 11 @ 4:00pm at Scotiabank Centre
*Game 7  Monday May 13 @ 8:00pm at Arena Iamgold

*if necessary

Single game tickets for Games 3 and 4 at home go on sale Thursday morning at 11am and can be purchased at select Superstore outlets, Ticket Atlantic Box Office or charge by phone 902-451-1221. 

Third Round Stats

2019 President Cup Playoffs Round Three vs. #2 Drummondville Voltigeurs

Team stats
4-2-0-0 (12-5-0-0 overall)
17 GF/17 GA (58/45 overall)
30.8% on PP (2nd)
74.6% on PK (13th)

Team leaders
Points: 27 - Raphael Lavoie 17GP-17-10-27 (1st)
Goals: 17 - Raphael Lavoie (1st)
Assists: 11 - Jake Ryczek (7th)
Game winning goals: 2 - Jocktan Chainey, Raphael Lavoie, Antoine Morand & Xavier Parent (T-5th)
Penalty minutes: 32 - Jared McIsaac (1st)
Face-offs: 223 - Keith Getson 223/426 52.3%
Plus/minus: +8 - Jared McIsaac & Antoine Morand
Shots: 80 - Raphael Lavoie
Wins: 10 - Alexis Gravel (T-1st)
Goals against average: 2.52 - Alexis Gravel (5th)
Save percentage: 0.921 - Alexis Gravel (5th)

Results
Game 1  Friday April 19  Halifax 1 at Drummondville 3
Game 2  Saturday April 20  Halifax 5 at Drummondville 4 2OT
Game 3  Tuesday April 23  Drummondville 1 at Halifax 2
Game 4  Wednesday April 24  Drummondville 2 at Halifax 5
Game 5  Friday April 26  Halifax 2 at Drummondville 6
Game 6  Sunday April 28  Drummondville 1 at Halifax 2 OT


Other series
#1 Rouyn-Noranda Huskies vs. #5 Rimouski Oceanic (ROU wins 4-0)
#2 Drummondville Voltigeurs vs #3 Halifax Mooseheads (HAL wins 4-2)

Finals Here We Come

Game Six Recap

HAL wins series 4-2

HALIFAX - President Cup Finals bound! How does that sound Moose Country? Honestly I am surprised that I am able to say that sentence but on Sunday afternoon it became a reality after Xavier Parent scored less than 3 minutes into the extra frame to give the Halifax Mooseheads a 2-1 overtime victory. With the win against the Drummondville Voltigeurs today, the Mooseheads will face off against the CHL's top ranked Rouyn-Noranda Huskies in the fourth round. Halifax had a good start with Arnaud Durandeau scoring to give the home fans on their feet just 8:28 into the game. Drummondville would go into the middle frame down 1-0 but Halifax-native Gregor MacLeod would tie the game at a goal a piece at the 12:50 mark of the second. In the third, it was a goaltender battle between Anthony Morrone and Alexis Gravel with neither guy letting in another goal. For the Mooseheads, they certainly had their chances though to take back the lead in that final frame of regulation. Gravel was stellar in all three home games during this series and was awarded the 1st star each match, including tonight where he made 33 saves. Thankfully, it didn't take very long for the OT period to be done and our boys were jumping over the bench to celebrate. Keith Getson shot it wide, Joel Bishop picked it up behind the side of the net and passed it to Xavier Parent out front who put the puck perfectly above Morrone's glove to end the game.

FINAL: Voltigeurs 1 at Mooseheads 2 OT
Stars: 3. Xavier Parent HAL | 2. Anthony Morrone DRU 1. Alexis Gravel HAL
Attendance: 7,681

GAME LOG
First period
8:28 HAL Arnaud Durandeau (7) | A; Groulx & Chainey

Second period 
12:50 DRU Gregor MacLeod (7) | A: Veleno

Third period 
No scoring

Overtime
2:22 HAL Xavier Parent (4) | A: Bishop & Getson

Powerplay: DRU - 0-for-1; HAL - 0-for-1
Shots: 34-29 in favour of Drummondville

DID NOT PLAY - Cole Stewart, Alexis Sansfacon, Samuel Dube and Denis Toner were healthy scratches while Marcel Barinka is at the U18's

UP NEXT - President Cup finals against the Huskies in Rouyn-Noranda on Thursday night. Puck drop 8pm.

Pushed To The Brink

Game Four Recap 

HAL leads series 3-1

Halifax celebrates their win
Photo - Ashley Hennigar

Your Halifax Mooseheads have pushed the 2nd overall Drummondville Voltigeurs to the brink of elimination after a 5-2 victory in Game 4. Mooseheads goaltender Alexis Gravel was once again named the first star, making 33 saves in a game that the home team was outshot 35-23. The biggest save being a cross crease glove save in the second period that kept the game scoreless at that point and made the 7,848 fans in attendance stand on their feet in ovation. The first period was not really entertaining as both teams were not giving the other club much room to work but both goaltenders did have to make a few nice saves at each end. In the second period, the special teams became a huge factor as three of the four goals scored in the frame were scored on the power play. Dawson Merceer got Drummondville on the board first with 1 second remaining in a Raphael Lavoie slashing penalty but Lavoie answered for Halifax 62 seconds later, also on a man advantage. Xavier Parent's goal with 4:27 left in the second, which made it 3-1 Herd, was the lone marker in that middle frame that was not scored with an extra skater on the ice. The Mooseheads were in control to start the third, leading 4-1 after 40 minutes and the final 20 was just about keeping that lead. Steve Hartley decided to pull goaltender Olivier Rodrigue with 3:50 remaining trying to give his team a chance to close the gap but Samuel Asselin scored in the empty net to put a stop to that. A late high sticking penalty by Joel Bishop proved to give the Voltigeurs a little bit of life as they made it 5-2.

FINAL: Voltigeurs 2 at Mooseheads 5
Stars: 3. Maxim Trepanier HAL | 2. Joel Bishop HAL | 1. Alexis Gravel HAL 
Attendance: 7,848

GAME LOG
First period
No scoring

Second period
10:01 DRU Dawson Mercer (5), PP | A: Guay & Veleno
11:03 HAL Raphael Lavoie (17), PP | A: McIsaac & Morand
14:21 HAL Maxim Trepanier (4), PP | A: Chainey & Groulx
15:33 HAL Xavier Parent (3) | A: Bishop & Getson
19:07 HAL Antoine Morand (5), PP | A: Durandeau & McIsaac

Third period 
16:29 HAL Samuel Asselin (6), EN | A: Lavoie
18:48 DRU Joseph Veleno (7), PP | A: Guay & MacLeod

Powerplay: DRU - 2-for-5; HAL - 3-for-4
Shots: 35-23 in favour of Drummondville

DID NOT PLAY - Alexis Sansfacon, Dennis Toner, Cole Stewart and Samuel Dube were healthy scratches while Marcel Barinka is at the U18's

SCORES
Rimouski 3 vs. Rouyn-Noranda 6 

UP NEXT _ Game 5 will be played in Drummondville on Friday night. Puck drops at 8:30pm

PLAYOFF GAME #15: vs. Drummondville

PREVIEW

HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS VS DRUMMONDVILLE VOLTIGEURS

Game Four of Round Three

Scotiabank Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

HALIFAX - Who's ready for some mid-week Halifax Mooseheads hockey? Our hometown boys find themselves up 2-1 in their series now winning the last two games, including a big tight battle on Tuesday evening which resulted in a 2-1 victory for Halifax. The team will be looking to stifle the likes of Joe Veleno and Maxime Comtois once again when the Drummondville Voltigeurs invade the Scotiabank Centre tonight for Game 4. While Comtois did score late in the game last night to make it interesting, you didn't really notice him or Veleno out there. Despite giving up 30+ shots, Halifax did play a good defensive game and held the regular season goal leading team to just a single goal in Game 3. Alex Gravel played really well to keep the Volts at bay so he'll hopefully back stop them to another win tonight. For the first time in 2018-19, the Herd had a healthy lineup. Benoit-Olivier Groulx, who had the second most points on the club, was back on the ice last night after missing a month with mononucleosis. Should be another good game so come out and cheer on the Memorial Cup hosts as they take on Drummondville.

PLAYOFF SERIES
Game 1  Apr 19  Mooseheads 1 at Voltigeurs 3
Game 2  Apr 20  Mooseheads 5 at Voltigeurs 4 2OT
Game 3  Apr 23  Voltigeurs 1 at Mooseheads 2
Game 4  Apr 24  Voltigeurs at Mooseheads - 7pm
Game 5  Apr 26  Mooseheads at Voltigeurs - 8:30pm
*Game 6  Apr 28  Voltigeurs at Mooseheads - 2pm
*Game 7  Apr 30  Mooseheads at Voltigeurs - 8pm

NOT DRESSED - Marcel Barinka (U18s)

NOTES

• There's a few Moose players among the leaders as Raphael Lavoie has the most points (25) & goals (16) in the QMJHL while Alex Gravel is third in save percentage (0.920) 
• Jake Ryczek has 10 assists this year after picking another 2 up last night and becomes the 7th defender in club history to have 10+ assists in same post-season 
• Olivier Rodrigue came in relief on Tuesday and made 20 saves, will he make his first start of the playoffs after being out the whole time with an injury

OUT OF TOWN
Rimouski vs. Rouyn-Noranda - 8:30pm

NEXT GAME - The two teams will meet again on Friday night in Drummondville for Game 5. Puck drops at 8:30pm.

Tight Battle

Game Three Recap

HAL leads series 2-1

Your Halifax Mooseheads have a 2-1 series lead after picking up a 2-1 victory in Game 3 of their third round match against the Drummondville Voltigeurs. It was a tight battle between the two clubs all night with the Moose holding the Volts to zero goals until the last three minutes of the game. There was also some hatred boiling to the surface, I guess when you play three straight games against each other and there is so much at stake, tempers tend to flare. Samuel Asselin got the scoring going 8:24 into the match, picking up a rebound and putting it past Anthony Morrone. Keith Getson scored minutes later which chased the Volts' goaltender after he allowed 2 goals on 8 shots. Halifax dominated the first half of the middle frame but for the whole second period, not much happened except for some nice chances by the Mooseheads. Drummondville pressured in the third, trying to get back into the game, outshooting the home team 16-4 in the final frame. Alexis Gravel stood tall the rest of the way until Maxime Comtois was able to squeak the puck past Gravel with 2:31 left. That''s as close as the away team would get. Once again, the Herd couldn't celebrate right away as there was some chattering going on between a few players on both teams. In a big boost, Benoit-Olivier Groulx was back in the lineup for Halifax after being off for a month with mononucleosis.

FINAL: Voltigeurs 1 at Mooseheads 2
Stars: 3. Keith Getson HAL | 2. Jake Ryczek HAL | 1. Alexis Gravel HAL
Attendance: 7,328

GAME LOG
First period
8:24 HAL Samuel Asselin (5) | A: Lavoie & Ryczek
11:44 HAL Keith Getson (6) | A: Ryczek

Second period
No scoring

Third period
17:39 DRU Maxime Comtois (10) | A: Guay & Lauzon

Powerplay: DRU - 0-for-4; HAL - 0-for-2
Shots: 35-28 in favour of Drummondville

DID NOT PLAY - Alexis Sansfacon, Cole Stewart and Samuel Dube were healthy scratches while Marcel Barinka is at the U18's

SCORES
Rimouski 2 vs. Rouyn-Noranda 5

UP NEXT - The two teams will meet again at the Scotiabank Centre for Game 4 tomorrow night. Puck drops at 7pm.

Semi-Finals Set Around the CHL

It's mid-April meaning that the third round is about to begin in all three of the leagues in the Canadian Hockey League. We're down to the conference finals in the Ontario Hockey League and Western Hockey League while it's the semi-final round in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League.

Ed Cheynoweth Cup playoffs
#E1 vs #C1 Prince Albert Raiders - Edmonton Oil Kings

#B1 vs #U2 Vancouver Giants - Spokane Cheifs

J. Ross Robertson Cup playoffs
#E1 vs #E3 Ottawa 67's - Oshawa Generals

#W4 vs #W2 Guelph Storm - Saginaw Spirit

President's Cup playoffs
#1 vs #5 Rouyn-Noranda vs. #5 Rimouski Oceanic

#2 vs #3 Drummondville Voltigeurs - Halifax Mooseheads

Predictions
WHL Third Round - Prince Albert in 6, Vancouver in 7
OHL Third Round - Ottawa in 5, Saginaw in 5
QMJHL Third Round - Rouyn-Noranda in 4, Drummondville in 6

Thursday's games
67's vs. Generals at 8PM
Spirit vs. Storm at 8:05PM

Friday's games
Huskies vs. Oceanic at 8:30PM
Voltigeurs vs. Mooseheads at 8:30PM
Raiders vs. Oil Kings at 10PM
Giants vs. Chiefs at 11:30PM

Round 3 Schedule

Our Halifax Mooseheads have made the third round for the first time since 2014 and will take on the Drummondville Voltigeurs in the semi-finals.

The QMJHL announced the schedule over the weekend after the quarter-finals were completed this past Friday. Halifax swept their series against the Moncton Wildcats while Drummondville took 5 games to dispatch the Sherbrooke Phoenix in the second round. This is the first time these two clubs have met in post-season. Despite the Volts being 12 hours away, once getting to the final four the series format is automatically 2-2-1-1-1. 

Find the schedule of the Voltigeurs-Mooseheads series below:

Game 1  Friday April 19 @ 8:30pm at Centre Marcel Dionne

Game 2  Saturday April 20 @ 8:00pm at Centre Marcel Dionne

Game 3  Tuesday April 23 @ 7:00pm at Scotiabank Centre

Game 4  Wednesday April 24 @ 7:00pm at Scotiabank Centre

*Game 5  Friday April 26 @ 8:30pm at Centre Marcel Dionne

*Game 6  Sunday April 28 @ 2:00pm at Scotiabank Centre

*Game 7  Tuesday April 30 @ 8:00pm at Centre Marcel Dionne

*if necessary

Single game tickets for Game 3 and 4 at home go on sale Thursday morning at 11am and can be purchased at select Superstore outlets, Ticket Atlantic Box Office or charge by phone 902-451-1221. 

Herd 2nd Round Stats

2019 President's Cup Playoffs Round Two vs. #E7 Moncton Wildcats

Team stats
4-0-0-0 (8-3-0-0 overall)
16 GF/9 GA (41/28 overall)
28.1% on PP (4th)
72.2% on PK (13th)

Team leaders (league rank in brackets)
Points: 20 - Raphael Lavoie 11GP-13-7-20 (2nd)
Goals: 13 - Raphael Lavoie (1st)
Assists: 8 - Antoine Morand (10th)
Game winning goals: 2 - Jocktan Chainey (T-2nd)
Penalty minutes: 20 - Jared McIsaac (3rd)
Face-offs: 127 - Keith Getson  127/258 49.2%
Plus/minus: +13 - Antoine Morand
Shots: 54 - Raphael Lavoie
Wins: 8 - Alexis Gravel (T-1st)
Goals against average: 1.89 - Cole McLaren (5th)
Save percentage: 0.915 - Alexis Gravel (7th)

Results
Game 1 Friday April 5 Moncton 3 at Halifax 5
Game 2 Saturday April 6 Moncton 2 at Halifax 3
Game 3 Tuesday April 9 Halifax 4 at Moncton 2
Game 4 Wednesday April 10 Halifax 4 at Moncton 2

Sweep

Game Four Recap 

HAL wins series 4-0

Morand celebrates his goal
Photo - TVA Sports

Your Halifax Mooseheads have done it! They are going to Round 3 after a 4-2 victory against the Moncton Wildcats on the road Wednesday night. A year after the Herd were swept by the Charlottetown Islanders, the team is now the ones doing the sweeping as they won 4 straight games against the pesky Cats. It was a battle all series both physically and on the scoreboard and it was no different tonight. While it wasn't as hard hitting and in each others faces as the first two matches, there was still some questionable contact and Halifax had to dig deep to get the win. The Mooseheads  fell behind for the first time in the series when Jakob Pelletier scored his second goal of the post-season to put the Wildcats up 1-0 in the first period. Moncton would score again with just over six minutes left in the middle frame to go up 2-0 but less than a minute and a half later, Halifax closed the gap to one goal when Patrick Kyte picked up his first playoff marker. In the third, despite being outshot it looked like the home team was going to get their first win of the series on the back of Francis Leclerc but a very nice pass from Antoine Morand to Keith Getson who put it past as sliding Leclerc tied the game at two with 6 minutes remaining and that's all the momentum the Herd would need. Morand tipped a Maxim Trepanier shot in to give the road club the lead and than Joel Bishop would seal the deal with an empty net goal.

FINAL: Mooseheads 4 at Wildcats 2
Stars: 3. Jakob Pelletier MON | 2. Francis Leclerc MON | 1. Antoine Morand HAL
Attendace: 4,352

GAME LOG
First period
14:17 MON Jakob Pelletier (2), PP | A: Spence & Khovanov

Second period
13:47 MON Jeremy McKenna (5), PP | A: Khovanov & Spence
15:10 HAL Patrick Kyte (1) | A: Barron & Trepanier

Third period 
14:00 HAL Keith Getson (4), PP | A: Morand
15:44 HAL Antoine Morand (4) | A: Trepanier & Kyte
18:47 HAL Joel Bishop (1), EN | A: Getson & Morand

Powerplay: HAL - 1-for-3, MON - 2-for-4
Shots: 46-34 in favour of Halifax

SCORES
Sherbrooke 2 vs. Drummondville 4

UP NEXT - The Mooseheads do not know who their Round 3 opponent will be yet but I'm sure that Game 1 of it will be Friday April 19.

Alumni Update: Moose In The Pros

Nikolaj Ehlers has been hit or miss all season &
will hope to get hot in the playoffs
Photo - Elite Prospects

We're into April which means regular seasons are coming to a close so I thought I would give you an update on how the former Halifax Mooseheads players are doing in the professional leagues. The National Hockey League and the ECHL ended on Saturday and begin their playoffs tonight while the American Hockey League doesn't conclude until April 15. So the guys in the AHL their stats will change from what it below.

There were a number of Herd alum in the 3 leagues this season and they all did pretty good. Guys who have been in the NHL for more than two years had career seasons, I feel a bit like a broken record saying that but these guys just keep getting better. A few alumni will be looking to help their teams win the respective league trophies including Timo Meier, Nathan MacKinnon, Brad Marchand and Nikolaj Ehlers al trying to get to the Stanley Cup finals. 

Nathan MacKinnon of the Colorado Avalanche saw himself in the top ten of league scoring once again, finishing 7th overall in the point race. The 23-year-old was so close to becoming the third Nova Scotian to record 100 points in 2018-19, falling just short in the last game of the year ending with 99 points. He had 41 goals and 58 assists in 82 games played. MacKinnon was highly praised during the first few months of the regular season as he and his teammates were seen by many fans and personalities alike as the best top line in the NHL. However, due to injuries they cooled off but will look to get the hot hand going again when they start the post-season on Thursday against the Calgary Flames. 

Timo Meier scored his 100th career point in 2018-19
Photo - Mercury News

Timo Meier of the San Jose Sharks also had a career season in 2018-19 almost doubling his points from last year. The 22-year-old recorded his 100th career point on March 11, an assist in a game against Minnesota. In 78 games the Herisau, SUI native played, Meier scored 30 goals while also collecting 36 helpers. Timo and the Sharks will take on the Vegas Golden Knights starting tonight.

Otto Somppi, Maxime Fortier and Connor Moynihan split the season between the AHL and ECHL in their first professional season. Somppi went back and forth between the Syracuse Crunch and Orlando Solar Bears. The 21-year-old recorded more than a point per game with Orlando as he scored 12 goals and had 12 assists in 21 games played while with the Crunch, Somppi was only able to muster three points in 24 games including his first AHL goal on December 12. Last that I saw reported is that Otto is with Syracuse currently. Fortier was also a point per game in the ECHL, picking up 12 goals and 25 points with the Jacksonville IceMen. 

Otto Somppi split time between Syracuse (AHL) & Orlando
(ECHL) in his first professional season
Photo - Getty Images

Below is how all the Moosehead alumni did in the NHL, AHL and ECHL during the regular season

Name	Team	League	GP	G	A	Pts
Nathan MacKinnon	Colorado	NHL	82	41	58	99
Jakub Voracek	Philadelphia	NHL	78	20	46	66
Brad Marchand	Boston	NHL	79	36	64	100
Nikolaj Ehlers	Winnipeg	NHL	62	21	16	37
Nico Hischier	New Jersey	NHL	69	17	30	47
Jonathan Drouin	Montreal	NHL	81	18	35	53
Martin Frk	Detroit	NHL	30	1	5	6
	Grand Rapids	AHL	10	4	9	13
Timo Meier	San Jose	NHL	78	30	36	66
MacKenzie Weegar	Florida	NHL	64	4	11	15
Filip Zadina	Detroit	NHL	9	1	2	3
	Grand Rapids	AHL	56	16	18	34
Max Fortier	Clevland	AHL	20	1	4	5
	Jacksonville	ECHL	24	12	13	25
Otto Somppi	Syracuse	AHL	24	1	2	3
	Orlando	ECHL	21	12	12	24
Alexandre Greenier	Laval	AHL	68	11	16	27
Shawn O'Donnell	Hartford	AHL	51	5	3	8
Cavan Fitzgerald	San Jose	AHL	63	7	12	19
Connor Moynihan	Rockford	AHL	2	0	0	0
	Indy	ECHL	52	6	8	14
Cameron Critchlow	Jacksonville	ECHL	72	11	17	28
Cody Donaghey	Orlando	ECHL	64	15	28	43
Stefan Fournier	Orlando	ECHL	9	1	1	2
	Wichita	ECHL	38	17	12	29