Game Day 12: vs Eagles

PREVIEW - Your Halifax Mooseheads wrap up their six game home-stand this evening when they host the Cape Breton Eagles for DND Appreciation Night. Surprisingly, this is the first matchup between these two provincial rivals during the regular season, however they did battle it out for all 4 exhibitions games that both teams had. Halifax will honour the Canadian Armed Forces tonight by wearing special themed jerseys that will be auctioned & raffled off with the funds raised going to normally Camp Hill Veterans Hospital. The Mooseheads have played 9 of their first eleven matches this season at the Scotiabank Centre and have given the fans who have showed up lots of things to cheer about as they have a 7-4-0-0 record so far. Despite only having two wins in 8 games played for the Eagles, goaltender Felix Hamel is amongst the league leaders being 4th in goals against average (2.68) and having the third best save percentage (0.913). So we could see a low scoring game tonight. 

Coverage
TV: FloHockey | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @MC_MooseCountry

Overall records
Eagles: 4-4-1-2 = 11 points (6th in Maritimes division, 15th overall)
Mooseheads: 7-4-0-0 = 14 points (2nd in Maritimes division, 6th overall)

Leading scorers
HAL: Oleg Kulebyakin 9pts (6G & 3A), Shawn Carrier 8pts (5G & 3A), Quinn Kennedy 8pts (5G & 3A) 
CAP: Eliot Litalien 9pts (5G & 4A), Lewis Gendron 9pts (1G & 8A), Romain Litalien 7pts (1G & 6A)

Head-to-head
This is the first match of the season series between these two teams. Halifax had a 2-5-1-0 record against the Eagles last season while Cape Breton went 6-2-0-0 versus the Mooseheads. Caylen Blake led the Mooseheads to a 5-3 victory in the two teams last matchup back on March 16 with two goals and Jacob Steinman stopped 28 of the Eagles 31 shots in Halifax. 

Out of town
Sagueneens vs. Armada - 5:00 p.m.
Drakkar vs. Oceanic - 5:00 p.m.
Huskies vs. Olympiques - 5:00 p.m.
Cataractes vs. Remparts - 5:00 p.m.
Foreurs vs. Voltigeurs - 5:00 p.m.
Tigres vs. Phoenix - 5:00 p.m.
Regiment vs. Sea Dogs - 6:30 p.m.

After the buzzer
Halifax will travel to Moncton and take on the Wildcats in a matinee tomorrow to start a 5 game road trip. Puck drops at 3 p.m.