Game Day 14: at Victoriaville

For the first time this season, our Halifax Mooseheads are playing three games in three days on the road and it continues tonight with the team visiting the Victoriaville Tigres. The Mooseheads will look to bounce back from an unfortunate loss on Friday night against Shawinigan that ended 8-1. Rookie defenceman Carlos Handel scored his first career goal during the opening period in the defeat. Halifax still has a good record for a rebuilding team but have been struggling with injuries lately to some of their top guys so you could use that excuse for last night. Victoriaville has a 3-7-1-1 record coming into this evening and had lost 8 straight contests before picking up a 3-0 victory on Thursday night. The Tigres are led by 19-year-old centre Mael Lavigne who has seven goals and 18 points so far this season. Not sure who will get the start in goal for Halifax tonight as both net-minders played yesterday and the club has a busy weekend but hopefully the whole team will use the loss as motivation and come out strong. 

Game coverage
TV: Webcast | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @HFXMooseheads

Overall records
Mooseheads: 7-4-2-0 = 16 points (3rd in Maritimes division, 8th overall)
Tigres: 3-7-1-1 = 8 points (4th in Central division, 15th overall)

Leading scorers
VIC: Mael Lavigne 18pts (7G & 11A), Eliott Simard 11pts (6G & 5A), Justin Larose 10pts (4G & 6A)
HAL: Liam Kilfoil 14pts (6G & 8A), Shawn Carrier 13pts (6G & 7A), Antoine Fontaine 10pts (5G & 5A)

Head-to-head
This is the first game of the season between these two clubs. Halifax had a 2-0-0-0 record versus the Tigres during the 2023-24 season while Victoriaville went 0-2-0-0 against the Mooseheads. Their last matchup was February 1 where Markus Vidicek's two goals propelled Halifax to a 4-2 win in Victoriaville. 

Out of town
Cataractes vs. Wildcats - 5:00 p.m.
Foreurs vs. Oceanic - 5:00 p.m.
Sagueneens vs. Islanders - 5:00 p.m.
Voltigeurs vs. Sea Dogs - 5:00 p.m.

Next game
The Mooseheads will wrap up this road trip on Sunday afternoon by taking on the Sherbrooke Phoenix. Puck drops at 4:00 pm AT. 

Game Day 6: vs Victoriaville

PREVIEW - For the first time this season, a Quebec based team will be in Moose Country as the Victoriaville Tigres are in town tonight to take on our Halifax Mooseheads. After starting the season off rocky, the Herd have won three straight since getting the services of their four NHL drafted players back last week. Veteran goaltender Mathis Rousseau was named to the QMJHL team of the week on Monday and followed that up with his first shutout of the year on Wednesday. Rookie Lou Levesque was also named to the team after posting two goals and 5 points in two games played. The 17-year-old has played well proving that the club made the right choice in keeping him on the regular roster. The Tigres are one of the top scoring teams to begin the season and as such they boast having the league leading scorers in Tommy Cormier and Justin Larose. We should have a good contest on our hands this evening for Eastlink's Friday night hockey. 

Overall records
Tigres: 3-2-0-0 = 6 points (3rd in Central division, 10th overall)
Mooseheads: 3-2-0-0 = 6 points (2nd in Maritimes division, 9th overall) 

Top 3 scorers

HAL: Logan Crosby 7pts (3G & 4A), Lou Levesque 6pts (2G & 4A), Mathieu Cataford 6pts (1G & 5A)
VIC: Tommy Cormier 10pts (1G & 9A), Justin Larose 9pts (5G & 4A), Maxime Pellerin 6pts (1G & 5A)

Head-to-head
This is the first matchup of the season between these two teams. Last year, Halifax had a 1-0-1-0 record against the Tigres. The Mooseheads won the last game 5-2 in Victoriaville with Jordan Dumais scoring two goals and 3 points. 

Last games

Victoriaville is coming off a 5-3 win on Thursday night in Moncton to start their Maritime road trip. The Tigres' Tommy Cormier led the team with a goal and four points while Gabriel D'Aigle made 32 saves against the Wildcats to pick up the victory. 

Halifax is coming off a 2-0 win against their provincial rivals the Eagles. Logan Crosby and Markus Vidicek scored for the Mooseheads as Mathis Rousseau picked up the 26 save shutout in Cape Breton on Wednesday night. 

Not playing - Jordan Dumais is still at NHL training camp

Out of town

Titan vs. Sea Dogs - 7:00 p.m.
Eagles vs. Armada - 7:00 p.m.
Drakkar vs. Islanders - 8:00 p.m.
Voltigeurs vs. Olympiques - 8:00 p.m.
Remparts vs. Foreurs - 8:00 p.m.
Oceanic vs. Phoenix - 8:00 p.m.
Cataractes vs. Sagueneens - 8:00 p.m.

Peeters, Moose Sweep Series Against Tigres

Senna Peeters played a pretty good game in his last one before heading out west to join Team Austria for the World Juniors picking up three assists and first star honours. His play helped the Halifax Mooseheads pick up a 7-3 victory on Saturday night against the visiting Victoriaville Tigres which allowed the club to sweep the season series. It was also the last Mooseheads game of 2021 for forward Attilio Biasca who will suit up for Team Switzerland during the holiday tournament and he scored the seventh goal to seal the deal. The home team got off to a rough start finding themselves down 2-0 just 6 minutes into the game as two of Victoriaville's overagers scored just 58 seconds apart and on the team's first 3 shots. A power play goal by Markus Vidicek would give the Herd life with under 8 minutes remaining in the first and after 20 minutes the score was 2-1 Tigres. The Mooseheads would go on to get three more goals in the first 15 minutes of the middle frame to take a 4-2 lead with James Swan putting in his first of the season which ended up being the game winner. Nikita Prishchepov would score at the 19:51 mark on the power play to make it an interesting game. It was a battle of rookie goaltenders but Mathis Rousseau had the lesser amount of work and after letting in the early goals, he was quite solid stopping 19 shots for the win. 

FINAL: Tigres 3 at Mooseheads 7
Stars: 3. Zachary Beauregard HAL | 2. Markus Vidicek HAL | 1. Senna Peeters HAL 
Attendance: 5,880
MC's Top Herd: Markus Vidicek

Game Log
First period
5:01 VIC Vincent Sevigny (6) | A: Cantin-Bolduc & Roy
5:59 VIC Conor Frenette (13), PP | A: Sevigny & Cormier
12:15 HAL Markus Vidicek (9), PP | A: Whynot & L'Heureux

Second period 
1:44 HAL Zachary L'Heureux (13), PP | A: Orr & Vidicek
2:02 HAL Mathieu Cataford (6) | A: Lafrance & Peeters
14:58 HAL James Swan (1) | A: Beauregard & Peeters
19:51 VIC Nikita Prishchepov (3), PP | A: Daigle & Roy

Third period 
11:55 HAL Vincent Gauthier (3) | A: Crosby & Whynot
17:11 HAL Zack Jones (4), EN | A: Dumais
19:36 HAL Attilio Biasca (6) | A: Peeters & Swan

Shots: 37-22 in favour of Halifax
Powerplay: VIC - 2-for-2; HAL - 2-for-5

SCORES
Val-d'Or 1 at Acadie-Bathurst 5
Gatineau 6 at Blainville-Boisbriand 2
Shawinigan 4 at Chicoutimi 6
Rouyn-Noranda 1 at Rimouski 7
Drummondville 4 at Cape Breton 3 SO
Charlottetown 5 at Saint John 3

Missing in action: Elliot Desnoyers (WJC camp), Stephen Davis (injury), Landon Miron (healthy)

Up next: Halifax will play a mid-week game on Wednesday night against the Charlottetown Islanders at home. Puck drop 7 p.m. 

Victoriaville Captures League Title

Photo - Tigres Facebook

It's been a season like no other but it ended on Saturday evening with the Victoriaville Tigres claiming the QMJHL title defeating the Val-d'Or Foreurs in Quebec City. 

Alex Beaucage scored the game winner at the 1:01 mark of double overtime to clinch Victoriaville's second President's Cup title in franchise history. The 4-2 series victory completed an upset by the 4th place Tigres over 2nd place Val-d'Or. 

Val-d'Or was considered by many the favourites to be champions this season after loading up at the trade deadline. The Foreurs had a 29-3-2-2 record in the regular season to finish second with a 0.861 points percentage, behind only the Charlottetown Islanders' 0.875%. Victoriaville meanwhile finished 6th in the standings with a 16-9-1-0 record or 0.635 points percentage. 

Highlights below

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League was the only CHL league to crown a champion during this weird 2020-21 season that had multiple changes all year long due to the coronavirus. The Q hopes to begin next season on October 1. 

Jan 17: Tigres vs. Mooseheads preview

VICTORIAVILLE TIGRES VS HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

Puck drops at 8:00pm

TV: Webcast | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @HFXMooseheads

Colisee Desjardins (3,420) ~ Victoriaville, QC

Our Halifax Mooseheads begin a three game road trip through the province of Quebec with a visit to Victoriaville to take on the Tigres tonight at 8pm Atlantic. There two teams are pretty evenly matched heading into the game, with both being close to the bottom of the standings. This weekend's road trip is a good time for Halifax to pick up some points as they'll also play 17th overall Gatineau on Sunday. The Herd are still trying to get some chemistry with all the new players and find themselves with a 2-8-0-0 record in their last 10 including loses in two straight. Victoriaville meanwhile is 0-3-1-0 lately and are led by Mikhail Abramov who has 51 points so far this season. Kevin Gursoy has taken over as the Mooseheads leading scorer and has played quite well since joining his new club last month.

This is the meeting between these two teams this season. Last year, Halifax was 1-1-0-0 against the Tigres while Victoriaville had a 1-1-0-0 record versus the Mooseheads. The two clubs met last on January 31 with Halifax coming away with the 7-5 victory on the back of Antoine Morand's 5 point night.

Overall records
Mooseheads: 16-21-2-1 = 35pts (5th in Maritimes division, 16th overall)
Tigres: 14-20-5-3 = 36pts (4th in Central division, 15th overall)

Leading scorers
VIC: Mikhail Abramov 51pts (27G & 24A), Brooklyn Kalmikov 31pts (15G & 16A), Jerome Gravel 27pts (15G & 12A)
HAL: Kevin Gursoy 32pts (13G & 19A), Zack Jones 19pts (9G & 10A), Senna Peeters 17pts (12G & 5A)

Out of Town
Wildcats vs. Sea Dogs     7:00pm
Islanders vs. Eagles     7:30pm
Oceanic vs. Titan     8:30pm
Huskies vs. Remparts     8:30pm
Sagueneens vs. Cataractes     8:30pm
Voltigeurs vs. Phoenix     8:30pm
Olympiques vs. Foreurs     8:30pm

After the Buzzer
The Mooseheads will travel to Sherbrooke to take on the QMJHL league leading Phoenix tomorrow night. Puck drops at 7pm.

Big Night For Morand

It was a really big night for 19 year old Antoine Morand on Thursday evening as the Halifax Mooseheads defeated the visiting Victoriaville Tigres 7-5 at the Scotiabank Centre. The game didn’t start off too good for the Herd as they found themselves down 2-0 thirteen minutes into the game but Morand got the home team on the board at the 16:21 mark with a shorthanded goal. That was the start of his career evening. There were goals galore in the middle frame and a number of penalties which the Mooseheads were able to convert on but the Tigres were not. Halifax third power play goal of the period gave them a 4-3 lead but Anthon Poulin scored with 4:33 left in the second to tie the game up again for Victoriaville and that would be the score going into the third. The away team took back the lead a couple minutes into the final frame but Antoine wasn’t going to let them leave Scotiabank Centre with a win, tying the match once again a few minutes later. His hat trick goal came at the 9:30 mark of the third which sent the 6,760 fans in attendance jump for joy as it gave the Mooseheads a 6-5 lead. The boys were able to hold off the Tigres in the final 10 minutes and Samuel Asselin scored his 36th of the season to give the team some insurance. Morand also recorded an assist on that 6th goal giving the captain a six point night, a career high. A weird bounce near the boards with about 90 seconds left got past Alex Gravel, however it was immediately waved off as the puck had hit a referees skate redirecting the puck into the net.

FINAL: Tigres 5 at Mooseheads 7
Stars: 3. Dominic Cormier VIC | 2. Samuel Asselin HAL | 1. Antoine Morand HAL
Attendance: 6,760
MC’s Top Herd: Antoine Morand

GAME LOG
First period
4:05 VIC Feliks Morozov (6) | A: Gallo-Demetris & Cormier
12:32 VIC Simon Lafrance (24) | A: Mathieu & Abramov
16:21 HAL Antoine Morand (15), SH | A: Asselin

Second period
2:46 HAL Benoit-Olivier Groulx (24), PP | A: Morand & McIsaac
3:04 VIC Dominic Cormier (10) | A: Mathieu & Abramov
8:28 HAL Jared McIsaac (10), PP | A: Lavoie & Morand
9:49 HAL Samuel Asselin (35), PP | A: Groulx & McIsaac
15:27 VIC Anthony Poulin (6) | A: Racicot

Third period
1:59 VIC Edouard Ouellet (2) | A: Boivin & Cormier
4:32 HAL Antoine Morand (16) | A: Lavoie & Kyte
9:30 HAL Antoine Morand (17) | A: Asselin
17:00 HAL Samuel Asselin (36) | A: McIsaac & Morand

Shots: 42-31 in favour of Halifax
Powerplay: VIC – 0-for-5; HAL – 3-for-4

NOT DRESSED – Jake Ryczek, Ostap Safin, Maxim Trepanier and Jocktan Chainey were out with injuries

SCORES
Sea Dogs 4 at Cataractes 5 SO

UP NEXT – The 10th overall Sherbrooke Phoenix will make their lone trip to Halifax on Friday evening. Puck drops at 7pm. .

GAMEDAY #61: vs. Victoriaville

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

It's a battle of two of the top three league leading scorers tonight as your Halifax Mooseheads host the Victoriaville Tigres for a mid-week match. The Tigres have Vitalii Abramov who has the second most points so far this season while the young man with the third most is on the Mooseheads; Otto Somppi. With 6 of the top 20 scorers in the QMJHL participating in this one game, we should be in for a high scoring game. However, Halifax is going to want to lessen the amount of goals against after letting in 7 on Sunday evening. While the Herd remain one of the top teams in the league, they are coming off a bad loss and will have to show more jump against a team who has won three straight in Victoriaville. Come out and see if the Moose can rebound as they take on Anaheim Ducks prospect Maxime Comtois before the boys hit the road again.

This is the second and last game between these two teams this season. Halifax is 0-1-0-0 against the Tigres while Victoriaville has a 1-0-0-0 record versus the Mooseheads. The last matchup was October 22 in Victoriaville where the Herd were shutout losing 2-0 on the road with Alexis Gravel making 23 saves.

OVERALL RECORDS
Tigres: 34-20-4-2 = 74 points (3rd in East division, 8th overall)
Mooseheads: 39-14-6-1 = 85 points (1st in Maritimes division, 2nd overall)

LEADING SCORERS
HAL: Otto Somppi 79pts (28G & 51A), Filip Zadina 70pts (39G & 31A), Maxime Fortier 67pts (29G & 38A)
VIC: Vitalii Abramov 84pts (35G & 49A), Ivan Kosorenkov 69pts (29G & 40A), Maxime Comtois 64pts (36G & 28A)

PREVIOUS GAMES
Victoriaville is coming off a 7-1 victory on home ice Sunday evening against the Sagueneens. Vitalii Abramov led the Tigres with a goal and two helpers while Etinne Montpetit stopped 29 of Chicoutimi's 30 shots.

Halifax was on the opposite end of a 7-1 score, losing to Drummondville the same day. Otto Somppi scored the lone goal for the Mooseheads unassisted while Blade Mann-Dixon got pulled after allowing 6 goals on 26 shots before Alex Gravel came in relief against the Voltigeurs.

ALUM ON TIGRES - Mathieu Charlebois

HEAD-TO-HEAD
October 22  Halifax 0 at Victoriaville 2
February 28  Victoriaville at Halifax - 7pm

OUT OF TOWN
Sagueneens vs. Oceanic     8:30pm
Olympiques vs. Screaming Eagles     8:30pm


AFTER THE BUZZER
Halifax will go on their last road trip of the season starting with a visit to the Chicoutimi Sagueneens. Puck drops at 5pm.

Moose Get 1st Road Win

The streak is broken. Your Haifax Mooseheads have finally picked up their first road win, defeating the Victoriavile Tigres in the Quebec city. The victory ends a 5 game losing streak by the Herd this season as the visiting team. Rookie goaltender Alexis Gravel started the game against the Tigres, which was his second straight start for Halifax. It's the first time this season that the 16 year old has started back to back games after getting the call on Saturday evening against Blainville. The Mooseheads got on to the board less than 4 minutes into the game with a goal by Maxime Fortier short handed and would hold on to that lead until there was 8 seconds left in the first period when Antoine Lessard got the puck past Gravel to tie the game at 1 after 20 minutes. It was goals galore in the middle frame as the Moose broke open the game with five goals in the period. Rookie defenseman Jared McIsaac scored his first career goal to start the breakout, putting the puck in behind Victoriaville's starting goalie James Povall just 33 seconds into the second. The home team would tie the game once again a minute and a half later before Nico Hischier scored twice to give Halifax a 4-2 lead at 4:47 of the period, forcing the Tigres to pull Povall and replace him with Olivier Tremblay. The third period was filled with penalties and only one goal (an empty net by Otto Somppi).

FINAL: Mooseheads 7 at Tigres 3
Stars: 3. Nico Hischier HAL | 2. Maxime Fortier HAL | 1. Jared McIsaac HAL
Attendance: 1,923
MC's Top Herd: n/a

GAME LOG
First period
3:19 HAL Maxime Fortier (7), SH | A: none
19:51 VIC Antoine Lessard (1) | A: Calgaro & Huntington

Second period
0:33 HAL Jared McIsaac (1) | A: Hischier & Goetz
2:07 VIC Alexandre Goulet (5) | A: Phelan & Smith
3:00 HAL Nico Hischier (4), PP | A: Chainey & Somppi
4:47 HAL Nico Hischier (5) | A: Lepage & Fortier
6:02 HAL Ben Higgins (2) | A: Charlebois
16:45 VIC Felix Meunier (3) | A: Demers
18:50 HAL Bradley Kennedy (3), PP | A: McIsaac & Fortier

Third period
15:54 HAL Otto Somppi (4) | A: none

Powerplay: HAL - 2-for-7, VIC - 0-for-5
Shots: 26-23 in favour of Halifax

MISSING IN ACTION - Brett Crossley & Anthony Sorrentino

SCORES
Cape Breton 5 at Acadie-Bathurst 3
Gatineau 1 at Rimouski 7
Sherbrooke 8 at Baie-Comeau 4
Quebec 1 at Chicoutimi 2 SO
Moncton 1 at Shawinigan 2

UP NEXT: Halifax will return home for three games starting with the Pink in the Rink game on Friday. Puck drops at 7pm.

GAMEDAY #16: at Victoriaville

GAMEDAY

VICTORIAVILLE TIGRES vs. HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

October 26, 2014 at 5:00pm

TV: Webcast | Radio: News 95.7 | Live: @CoolenTQN

Colisee Desjardins (3,420) ~ Victoriaville, QC 

Will the Mooseheads come home with a winning record on this Quebec road trip? Today will be Halifax's third game in three days and it'll be a tough road to get a second win on the trip. After an explosive offense on Friday night, it was a battle of goaltending and defense last night. Brandon Vuic seems to be looking to show the team that he is still valuable to the team recording his first 3 points in his last 2 games after a team suspension. We're going to have to wait and see what kind of team we will see this evening. 

This is the first game between the Herd and the Victoriaville Tigres this season. Recent history is on Halifax's side as they have won both games last season. 

Overall Records

Mooseheads: 5-8-1-1 = 12 points (5th in Maritimes division, 16th overall)

Tigres: 7-5-0-2 = 16 points (5th in East division, 10th overall)

Leading Scorers

VIC: Angelo Miceli 23pts (9G & 14A), Yan Pavel Laplante 13pts (8G & 5A), Samuel Blais 13pts (7G & 6A)

HFX: Timo Meier 17pts (7G & 10A), Philippe Gadoury 12pts (5G & 7A), Morgan Nauss 10pts (2G & 8A)

Last Games

The Mooseheads are coming off a 2-1 loss in Blainville on Saturday night. Brandon Vuic had the lone goal for Halifax against the Armada while Zach Fucale made 18 saves for the loss.

Victoriaville is also coming off a loss in Chicoutimi last night. Filip Pyrochta had the lone goal in the 5-1 loss against the Sagueneens while Chase Marchand and Brandon Whitney split the duties.

Season Series

Sunday Oct 26  Halifax at Victoriaville - 5pm

Thursday Feb 19  Victoriaville at Halifax - 7pm

Out of Town

Titan vs Drakkar 3:00pm
Islanders vs Screaming Eagles 3:00pm
Sea Dogs vs Remparts 3:00pm
Olympiques vs Phoenix 5:00pm
Oceanic vs Foreurs 5:00pm
Cataractes vs Wildcats 5:00pm

After the Buzzer
Halifax will be home on Wednesday night to take on the Charlottetown Islanders at the Scotiabank Centre. Puck drops at 7pm.

CONFIRMED Boudreau traded again.

Former Mooseheads player Matt Boudreau has been traded once again. A month and a half ago it announced that Boudreau had been traded from Shawinigan to Victoriaville.

Now for the third time in 2013, Matt is back in Atlantic Canada after Victoriaville traded him to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan before Christmas. The trade was made official today. 

Us fans will only see Boudreau once more unless he gets traded for a fourth time. The Titan come to Moose Country on January 11th. The two teams will meet three more times afterwards this season all of which will be played at the K.C. centre. Once again good luck Matt in a new city.

POSTGAME: Tigres 1, Mooseheads 4

MC POST-GAME
Whitney's 40 saves aren't enough for victory from Tigres

FINAL: Tigres 1 at Mooseheads 4
Attendance: 6,628
Three stars: 3. Brandon Whitney VIC | 2. Nikolaj Ehlers HAL | 1. Jonathan Drouin HAL
MC Top Herd: Jonathan Drouin

The Canadian Press' recap: Jonathan Drouin scored goals 65 seconds apart in the third period and got the Halifax Mooseheads back on the winning path with a 4-1 victory over the Victoriaville Tigres in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action on Thursday.

Metro Halifax's recap: Just when it looked like a game guaranteed to be grinded out to the end, Jonathan Drouin imposed his will.

Cory Coolen's recap: Jonathan Drouin’s three-point night led the Halifax Mooseheads to a 4-1 victory over the East Division’s Victoriaville Tigres on Thursday night in front of 6,628 fans at the Halifax Metro Centre.

The Chronicle Herald's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads weren’t about to make it three losses in a row.

halifaxmooseheads.com's recap: The Mooseheads snapped a brief 2 game losing skid with a 4-1 win over the stubborn Victoriaville Tigres thursday night.

qmjhl.ca's recap: Game summary

MISSING IN ACTION: Liam Alcalde, Jacob Jacques and Max Lindsay did not play

TWEET OF THE NIGHT

HATRED
I did not know that these two teams had such a rivalry. I don't know what it was but there were a lot of fights, lots of yapping and lots of hitting. Maybe it was just because the Mooseheads were mad from losing two in a row and were having a hard time getting pucks behind Brandon Whitney or something else. It was entertaining to say the least though.

SHUTOUT
Despite the shot total both teams cam eout of the first period being shutout by the goaltenders.

WHITNEY
Brandon WHitney, from Kentville Nova Scotia, was stellar last night and gave his team every opportunity to win the game. He had to make some pretty nice saves during the game but he couldn't stop Jonthan Drouin. Whitney faced 46 shots while Zach Fucale only faced 17. Brandon saved the same amount in the first period as Fucale did all game actually.

DROUIN
Jonathan Drouin was playing on all cylinders once again. He scored 2 really nice goals in 65 seconds to give Halifax the lead they needed. He ended the night with 2 goals and an assist on Nik Ehlers late first period powerplay goal.

DUCHARME
Head coach Dom Ducharme was not happy at all last night. There were a few missed calls like always and Dom flew off the handle. That too was entertaining to watch sitting behind the bench.

OTHER SCORES

UP NEXT
Halifax plays host to the Quebec Remparts in an always interesting match up at the Metro Centre. Puck drops at 7pm.

Breaking: Boudreau to Tigres

A week after former Moosehead Dominic Beachemin was traded to Rimouski after spending the first two months of the season with Acadie-Bathurst, another former Herd player has been traded.

The Shawinigan Cataractes announced today that they have traded Matt Boudreau to the Victriaville Tigres. Boudreau was the only player in this deal as Shawinigan receives Victoriaville's 4th and 9th round picks in the 2014 QMJHL Draft.

Boudreau was originally traded a day before the 2013 QMJHL draft in June to the Cataractes by the Halifax Mooseheads. Halifax recieved their first round pick 2014.

Good luck to Matt in Victoriaville. Moose fans will get to see him in a new sweater for the first time on December 5.

POSTGAME: Mooseheads 3, Tigres 2

MC POST-GAME
Another extra time game, another win by Halifax

FINAL: Mooseheads 3 at Tigres 2 OT
Attendance: 2,017
Three stars: 3. Delisle VIC | 2. Gagne VIC | 1. Whitney VIC

The Chronicle Herald's recap: Ryan Falkenham performed some late heroics for the Halifax Mooseheads Saturday in Victoriaville, Que.

Metro Halifax's recap: Ryan Falkenham came up big - really big - for the Halifax Mooseheads on Saturday.

The Canadian Press' recap: Ryan Falkenham scored with 26 seconds left in the third period to force overtime, then added the winner in the extra period as Halifax edged the Tigres.

theqnews.net's recap: Ryan Falkenham scored two goals, including the overtime winner, helping to propel the Halifax Mooseheads to a 3-2 road win against the Victoriaville Tigres on Saturday afternoon.

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: Ryan Falkenham played the role of hero Saturday in Victoriaville.

QMJHL.ca's recap: Game summary.

SCORERS: Timo Meier (2) HAL 4:17, Angelo Miceli (6) VIC 29:40, Carl-Antoine Delisle (7) VIC 59:08, Ryan Falkenham (2) HAL 59:34, Ryan Falkenham (3) HAL 62:29

MISSING IN ACTION: Max Lindsay, Andrew Shewfelt, Sam Leblanc, and Jacob Jacques were all healthy scratches while Darcy Ashley has still not returned from a hand injury. Tommy Veilleux, Carl Marois, Jacob Vance, Jan Mandat, Jonathan Diaby and Alex Filiatrault were not in the lineup for Victoriaville.

EXTRA TIME
This is the second straight game that has gone to extra time for the Halifax Mooseheads. It's also the third one this season to go past 60 minutes. Which means 3 of the Herd's 5 wins are from winning it in extra minutes.

GOALIE
It looked like Kevin Darveau was going to get the start for Halifax, from what John Moore tweeted of the lines but Zach Fucale did.

HOME TOWN BOYS
There were a couple of Nova Scotian boys playing in this game. Brendan Duke an Ryan Falkenham of your Moose are from Halifax while Victoriaville goaltender Brandon Whitney is from Halls Habour, Nova Scotia. Victoriaville also had Dartmouth native Mark Tremaine and Baddeck native Mark Trickett playing last night.

FALKENHAM
Ryan Falkenham had a pretty good night yesterday evening. He scored the last two Moosehead goals, one in regulation to tie it up on the powerplay in the last minute and then the overtime winner.

MEIER
According to the teams twitter page, Timo Meier was being shot by a Switzerland camera crew last night. He made it 1-0 early in the first period.

DROUIN
Jonathan Drouin added to his point total, assisting on Falkenham's goals.

OTHER SCORES
Baie-Comeau 4 - 2 Chicoutimi
Rimouski 4 - 5 Drummondville
Quebec 1 - 3 Gatineau
Charlottetown 5 - 4 Rouyn-Noranda SO
Shawinigan 2 - 4 Val-d'Or

NEXT GAME
The last game of the 3-in-3 road trip is this evening in Drummondville against the Voltigeurs. Puck drops at 5pm.

GAMEDAY 10: at Victoriaville

IT'S GAMEDAY

VICTORIAVILLE TIGRES vs. HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

Puck drops at 5pm

Colisee Desjardins (3,420) ~ Victoriaville, QC

PREVIEW - 0.500. That is the number that the Halifax Mooseheads are trying to get to. If they win this evening, the Herd can get to an even record. They are one game below .500 right now after a shootout win last night in Sherbrooke. Jonathan Drouin helped the team win Friday night and will look to continue helping his team get back to the winning ways they had last season. This is the second game in a 3 games in 3 nights road trip for the Moose.


First of two games in the season series between these 2 teams Victoiaville and Halifax will play again in December when the Mooseheads host the Tigres.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
VIC: Car-Antoine Delisle (6G, 6A, 12 PTS), Angelo Miceli (5G, 5A, 10 PTS), Philippe Hudon (3G,2A, 5 PTS)
HAL: Andrew Ryan (5G, 5A, 10 PTS), Nikolaj Ehlers (5G, 3A, 8 PTS), Brent Andrews (1G, 6A, 8 PTS)

LAST GAMES
Victoriaville is coming of a 6 to 2 loss on Friday night playing host to Rimouski. Angelo Miceli led the team with 2 points while both goalies played saving a total of 35 pucks in a losing cause.

Halifax travelled to Shebrooke to take on the Phoenix and skated out with a 3-2 shootout win. Jonathan Drouin was the headliner leading the team with a goal and assist while scoring the game inner while Zach Fucale made 24 saves.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season     0-0-0-0     0GF    0GA
October 5 @ 5pm  Mooseheads at Tigres
December 5 @ 7pm  Tigres at Mooseheads
Last season    1-1-0-0    7GF    7GA

NOT PLAYING - Darcy Ashley is still out with a hand injury.

OUT OF TOWN
Drakkar at Sagueneens - 5:00pm
Oceanic at Voltigeurs - 8:00pm
Remparts at Olympiques - 8:00pm
Islanders at Huskies - 8:00pm
Cataractes at Foreurs - 8:30pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @HFXMooseheads
Radio: News 95.7
Webcast: TELUS
Post-game: The Chronicle Herald, MooseCountry blog

AFTER THE GAME
The last game on this road trip to begin October is tomorrow evening in Drummondville. Puck drops at 5pm.