Stats Sunday: November (on Wednesday)

Games played: 12
Record: 9-1-2-0, 20pts
Goals for/against: 43/26
Powerplay*: 22.8%
Penalty kill*: 88.7%
Shutouts: Two

Top 5 leading scorers
Points: Jordan Dumais 27, Markus Vidicek 18, Mathieu Cataford 17, Jake Furlong 9, Brady Schultz 9
Goals: Markus Vidicek 11, Jordan Dumais 8, Mathieu Cataford 8, Brody Fournier 4, Lou Levesque 2
Assists: Jordan Dumais 19, Mathieu Cataford 9, Jake Furlong 8, Brady Schultz 8, Markus Vidicek 7
Penalty minutes: Braeden MacPhee 18, Jake Furlong 8, Jake Todd 6, Dylan MacKinnon 6, Ethan Larmand 6
Plus/minus: Markus Vidicek +14, Mathieu Cataford +14,  Jordan Dumais +13, Jake Furlong +9, Owen Phillips +5
Rookie scoring: Lou Levesque 5pts, Yannik Ponzetto 2pts, Cade Moser 2pts, Dominic MacKenzie 1pt

Goaltender stats*
Mathis Rousseau     16-2-2-0     2.07 GAA     0.933 SAV%
Jack Milner     3-3-1-0     3.16 GAA     0.890 SAV%

*overall

RECAP: Victory On 90's Night

Photo - AMH Photography

Your Halifax Mooseheads have won seven in a row now after picking up a 4-1 victory over the struggling Shawinigan Cataractes on Saturday night. The home team got off to a bit of a slow start, being outshot 7-3 in the first five or so minutes but goaltender Jack Milner stood strong allowing Halifax to get on the board first with a goal by Mathieu Cataford at the 13:29 mark. That would be the score after twenty minutes in a game where the Cataractes seemed to have known that Jordan Dumais could make history tonight. Shawinigan was all over Dumais including at one point early in the third, after Halifax had made it 3-1, defenceman Angus Booth would not allow Jordan to skate away and brought him down to the ice. The 19-year-old clinched the win for the Mooseheads at the 16:08 mark with his 12th goal of the season which was his 303rd career regular season point. That number ties the franchise record for total points that is currently held by Brandon Benedict. Saturday's 90's night event also happened to be the 2000th regular season game in Herd history. 

FINAL: Cataractes 1 to Mooseheads 4

Stars: 3. Jordan Dumais HAL | 2. David Moravec HAL | 1. Jack Milner HAL 

Attendance: 8,541

MC's Top Herd: Jack Milner

GAME LOG
First period

13:29 HAL Mathieu Cataford (10) | A: Moravec & Vidicek

Second period
9:14 SHA Lou-Felix Denis (10), SH | A: Bonefon

Third period

1:10 HAL Lou Levesque (9) | A: Fournier & Schultz
2:04 HAL Logan Crosby (4) | A: Furlong & Moravec
16:08 HAL Jordan Dumais (12) | A: Moravec

Powerplay: SHA - 0-for-4; HAL - 0-for-6

Shots: 25-23 in favour of Shawinigan

Next game
Halifax will finish a 3-in-3 weekend on Sunday afternoon when they welcome the Cape Breton Eagles. Puck drops at 3 p.m.

QMJHL Names Scholastic POM

Every month, the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announces a Scholastic Player of the Month which recognizes a player on each team with his performance on ice and in the classroom. The player is selected based on their school results, their implication, the school-hockey conciliation, their team spirit and their on-ice performances. 

For your Halifax Mooseheads, Owen Phillips was named the Scholastic Player of the Month for October. Phillips had a goal and three points in the month over 12 games. 

Team	Player	Program	Institution
BAT	Joshua Fleming	Business	Athabasca University
BAC	Kirill Evstigneev	Grade 12	Northern Pre University
BLB	Alexandre Carbonneau	Social Sciences	Cégep de Terrebonne
CAP	Thomas Bégin	Social Sciences	Cégep à distance
CHA	Brett Arsenault	Business	UPEI
CHI	Colby Train	Grade 12	St. Malachy’s Memorial High School
DRU	Luke Woodworth	Management	Athabasca University
GAT	Matthew Eric	Natural Sciences	College Heritage
HAL	Owen Phillips	Grade 12	Woodlawn High School
MON	Olivier Boutin	Psychology	TÉLUQ
QUE	Zachary M.-Laflamme	Social Sciences	Cégep de Limoilou
RIM	Julien Béland	Natural Sciences	Cégep de Rimouski
ROU	Kyle Hagen	Grade 12	Northern Pre University
SNB	Nicola Laforge	Bachelor of Arts	UNB
SHA	Angus Booth	Social Sciences	Cégep de Shawinigan
SHE	Jean-Félix Lapointe	Natural Sciences	Cégep de Sherbrooke
VDO	Émile Desjardins	Natural Sciences	Cégep de Val-d’Or
VIC	Samuel Kingsley	Natural Sciences	Cégep de Victoriaville

Game Day 18: vs. Sherbrooke

PREVIEW - Our Halifax Mooseheads are hosting their Hockey Fights Cancer night this evening as they welcome the Sherbrooke Phoenix at the Scotiabank Centre. The Mooseheads will be looking for their fifth win in a row. The event was previously known as Pink in the Rink before the pandemic hit but now matches what the NHL has been doing in raising money for research and awareness for all types of cancers. Halifax will be wearing special purple jerseys during the game which will most likely be auctioned off afterwards. Sherbrooke is coming into the match on their own win streak, having been victorious in their last three games. We could see another netminder battle tonight as these two teams have the top goalies in goals against average. Let's fill up the arena for some Saturday hockey. 

Overall records
Phoenix: 9-5-0-1 = 19 games (3rd in Central division, 7th overall)
Mooseheads: 12-4-1-0 = 25 points (T-2nd in Maritimes division, 5th overall)

Top 3 scorers
HAL: Mathieu Cataford 23pts (7G & 16A), Markus Vidicek 22pts (10G & 12A), Jordan Dumais 18pts (7G & 11A)
SHE: Israel Mianscum 20pts (7G & 13A), Lewis Gendron 12pts (5G & 7A), Olivier Dubois 12pts (5G & 7A)

Head-to-Head
This is the first game of the season between these two clubs. Halifax had a 1-1-0-0 against the Phoenix in 2022-23 with their last match being a 3-0 loss on February 25. Three players scored for Sherbrooke including Nova Scotian Jacob Melanson while Mooseheads' Mathis Rousseau made 36 saves in a third star performance. 

Last games
Sherbrooke is coming off a 1-0 victory against the Eagles to start their Maritime division trip on Thursday. Hugo Primeau scored the lone goal for the Phoenix while Samuel St. Hilaire had a 22-save shutout in Cape Breton. 

Halifax is coming off a 3-2 overtime win last night versus the Oceanic. Forward Jordan Dumais scored the winner in extra time and added an assist to lead the Mooseheads and Mathis Rousseau stopped 31 of Rimouski's 33 shots on Friday evening. 

Not playing - Logan Crosby (injury) and Liam Kilfoil (U17 hockey challenge)

Out of town
Titan vs. Sea Dogs - 4:00 p.m.
Sagueneens vs. Tigres - 5:00 p.m.
Olympiques vs. Wildcats - 5:00 p.m.
Foreurs vs. Islanders - 5:00 p.m.
Armada vs. Drakkar - 5:00 p.m.
Cataractes vs. Voltigeurs - 5:00 p.m.

RECAP: Comeback Win In Shootout

Our Halifax Mooseheads swept a home-and-home series with the Acadie-Bathurst Titan after a comeback 5-4 shootout victory on Wednesday night. Despite outshooting the away team 14-6, Halifax found themselves down 1-0 after twenty minutes as overager Igor Mburanumwe scored his first goal of the season. Acadie-Bathurst continued to make Mathis Rousseau look human in the middle frame as they got three more goals past the Mooseheads goaltender on 10 shots. The Herd looked like they were still not feeling very good as most of the guys seemed to be skating not as fast as they normally do. Whatever the coaches said during the second intermission, it seemed to work as Mathieu Cataford scored a power-play goal to start the comeback. Jordan Dumais' assist on Jake Furlong's first goal of the season marked another franchise record for the 19-year-old, who now leads the team in regular season assists with 185 helpers. Markus Vidicek scored at the 16:45 mark of the third period to tie the game up so we headed to overtime with the score 4-4. The extra frame solved nothing, leading to a shootout where Cataford scored the game winner. 

FINAL: Titan 4 at Mooseheads 5 SO
Stars: 3. Mathieu Cataford HAL | 2. Colby Huggan BAT | 1. Markus Vidicek HAL
Attendance: 5,606
MC's Top Herd: n/a

GAME LOG
First period
15:35 BAT Igor Mburanumwe (1) | A: Roelens & Pilgrim-Edwards

Second period
2:10 BAT Donovan Arsenault (7) | A: Huggan
13:53 BAT Colby Huggan (5) | A: Arsenault
16:40 BAT Joseph Henneberry (6) | A: Orr & Huggan

Third period
6:59 HAL Mathieu Cataford (7), PP | A: Dumais & Vidicek
9:41 HAL Jake Furlong (1) | A: Fournier & Dumais
12:36 HAL Jack Martin (1) | A: Levesque & Todd
16:45 HAL Markus Vidicek (9) | A: Levesque & MacKinnon

Overtime
None

Shootout 
Donovan Arsenault - Miss      Jordan Dumais - Miss
Colby Huggan - Miss             Markus Vidicek - Goal
Robert Orr - Goal                   Owen Phillips - Miss
Milo Roelens - Miss               Mathieu Cataford - Goal

Powerplay: BAT - 0-for-1; HAL - 1-for-2
Shots: 48-28 in favour of Halifax

Next game
Our Mooseheads are back at home on Friday night against the Rimouski Oceanic. Puck drops at 7 p.m.