GAMEDAY 12: vs Blainville-Boisbriand

IT'S GAMEDAY

HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS vs. BLAINVILLE-BOISBRIAND ARMADA

Puck drops at 7:00pm

Metro Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

PREVIEW - Undefeated. Going into the tonight's game that is all anybody will be thinking about. The 3rd year Blainville-Boisbriand Armada are coming into town as the number one ranked team in the country with a 9-0 record. Your Halifax Mooseheads will look to stop that streak and prove that they are not part of the champiosnhip curse that seems to plaque lots of championship teams in the year after winning the trophy. The Armada are the only truly undefeated team right now in the Canadian Hockey League.

Halifax will have some help however as Darcy Ashley, who was third in team scoring alst season, is returning to the lineup after being out since the middle of training camp with a broken hand. It will also be the home debut for 3rd overall draft pick Jonathan Drouin. Drouin was reassigned to the Moose by the Tampa Bay Lightning a day after Halifax's last home game and has played 4 road games collecting 5 points. Drouin collected 56 of his 105 points on home ice last season so he should help the team score more on this 6 game homestand. Ashley will also be a big boost, he had 26 goals and 78 points last year. 


This is the first of two games between Blainville and the Mooseheads. They will meet agian in February.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
BLB: Christopher Clapperton (6G, 14A, 20 PTS), Nikita Jevpalovs (8G, 4A, 12 PTS), Ryan Tesnik (2G, 7A, 9 PTS)
HAL: Andrew Ryan (5G, 5A, 10 PTS), Nikolaj Ehlers (5G, 3A, 8 PTS), Brent Andrews (1G, 7A, 8 PTS)

LAST GAMES
The Herd are coming off a 3-2 win, their third stright by the score, against the Drummondville Voltigeurs. Timo Meier scored the first two goals for the Moose while Zach Fucale stopped 22 of 24 shots.

Blainville-Boisbriand continued their streak last night against the Moncton Wildcats, shuting out the Cats 4-0. Frederic Bergeron led the team in points with 2 goals as Etienne Marcoux stopped all 22 pucks he faced for the shutout.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season    0-0-0-0    0GF    0GA
October 11 @ 7pm  Armada at Mooseheads
February 1 @ 8pm  Mooseheads at Armada
Last season    2-0-0-0   8GF    5GF

NOT PLAYING - Just as the Herd are getting one guy back (Darcy Ashley) another one goes down; Trey Lewis will be out indefinitely

OUT OF TOWN
Eagles at Islanders - 7:00pm
Titan at Remparts - 8:00pm
Phoenix at Huskies - 8:30pm
Tigres at Cataractes - 8:30pm
Huskies at Foreurs - 8:30pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @MC_MooseCountry
Webcast: TELUS
Radio: News 95.7
Post-game: MooseCountry blog

AFTER THE GAME
The Mooseheads continue their homestand tomorrow night against the Saint John Sea Dogs. Puck drops at 7pm.

Halifax starts homestand on Friday

Your Halifax Mooseheads will start the longest homestand of the season on Friday against Blainville-Boisbriand. Friday's game will be the first of SIX straight home games. The other homestands are either 3 or 4 games long while the road trips are the same. Halifax will not play more than 4 straight games on the road this season.

After they play the Armada, your Mooseheads will also be playing hosts to Saint John, Cape Breton, Val-d'Or, Rouyn-Noranda and Charlottetown. The homestand will consist of four weekend games, as well as a Tuesday and Wednesday night game. It will finish with a game against the Islanders, PEI's renamed hockey team, on Wednesday October 23rd. For all 6 games the puck will drop at 7:00pm.

Halifax plays 13 games in October, seven of which are played at the Metro Centre. The other six are in enemy territory, four of which have already been played.

POSTGAME: Mooseheads 3, Voltigeurs 2

MC POST-GAME
Drummondville unable to tie the game, Halifax wins

FINAL: Mooseheads 3 at Voltigeurs 2
Attendance: 2,212
Three stars: 3. Moynihan HAL | 2. Meier HAL | 1. Lalancette DRU

The Canadian Press' recap: Timo Meier scored twice, including the winner on the power play, as Halifax defeated the Voltigeurs.

Metro Halifax's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads ended their road trip above .500, for the first time this season.

theqnews.net's recap: Timo Meier scored twice helping the Halifax Mooseheads to a 3-2 win over the Voltigeurs at Centre Marcel Dionne in Drummondville Sunday afternoon.

L'Express' recap: Prives d'Alexandre Roy et de Georgs Golovkovs, tous deau mis K.-). par une commotion cerebrale subie la veille, les Voltigeurs (6-4-0-0) ont mise sur la defensive pour tenter de freiner les champions en titre de la Coupe Memorial.

The Chronicle Herald's recap: The drive back to Halifax should be nice and relaxed for the Mooseheads.

halifaxmooseheads.com's recap: The Mooseheads seem to be finding their groove.

QMJHL.ca's recap: Game summary.

SCORERS: Christophe Lalancette (1) DRU 16:03, Timo Meier (3) HAL 27:05, Jerome Vernier (5) 27:5, Timo Meier (4) HAL 35:25, Jonathan Drouin (2) HAL 43:12

MISSING IN ACTION: Brian Lovell, Jacob Jacques, Vincent Watt, Darcy Ashley and Liam Alcade were the scratches for Halifax. Alexandre Roy, Mathieu Amyot and Georgs Golovkovs were the ones sitting in the press box for Drummondville.

PINK IN THE RINK
This was one of two pink in the rink games that the Mooseheads are taking part in. The Voltigeurs wore pink jerseys during the game. They also wore them yesterday when Drummondville took on Rimouski. It's all to help raise awareness for breast cancer and the research to stop it.

SWEEP
Three games in three nights is a big task to finish. Well your Herd have not only finished it but will be coming home with the weekend sweep after winning today as well as Friday night and Saturday. They were able to collect all 6 points available to them in the 3 days.

POWERPLAY
The powerplay seems to be clicking better as two of the 3 goals were scored with the man advantage. Halifax ended the night 2 for 6 on the powerplay and a perfect 4 for 4 on the penalty kill.

SHOTS
Final shots ended in a tie with both teams shooting 24 pucks at the net.

MEIER
Timo Meier scored a couple of nice goals last night. He recorded the first goal of the game for the Moose tying up the game in the middle frame. He than tied up again with less then 5 minutes left on the powerplay.

DROUIN
Jonathan Drouin scored his second goal in 4 games, scoring the game winner. He had a second goal taken away.

OTHER SCORES
Saint John 5 - 4 Bathurst SO
Cape Breton 1 - 3 Moncton
Quebec 2 - 3 Blainville
Gatineau 5 - 3 Sherbrooke

NEXT GAME
It's back to Moose Country for Halifax now when they start a 6 game homestand on Friday against Blainville-Boisbriand. Puck drops at 7pm.

GAMEDAY 11: at Drummondville

IT'S GAMEDAY

DRUMMONDVILLE VOLTIGEURS vs. HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

Puck drops at 5:00pm

Centre Marcel Dionne (3,038) ~ Drummondville, QC

PREVIEW - 3-in-3. Three games in 3 days, all on the road in Quebec. Halifax has had to get the 2 points adwarded to a win in extra time both times. On Friday, the Mooseheads had a 2-0 win and were forced into overtime while last night Halifax native Ryan Falkenham was the hero scoring the tying goal and game winner. They will look to not have to play more then 60 minutes this evening for the third straight game when they travel to Drummondville to take on the Voltigeurs. Jonathan Drouin seems to have found his grove in the last two games recording 4 points after having none in his season debut. 

If the Herd can skate away with a win and go three for three on this weekend's road trip, they will have a winning record for the first time all season. It will be tough as Halifax will be playing one of the top teams in the league both in team records and powerplay. The road teams powerplay has gotten better partly because they went 2 for 3 with a man advantage last night. 

 

Drummondville will travel to Halifax in a little over a month to take on the red, white and green. Both teams will look a little different as hopefully a lot of them will be sporting moustaches. 

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
HAL: Andrew Ryan (5G, 5A, 10 PTS), Nikolaj Ehlers (5G, 3A, 8 PTS), Brent Andrews (1G, 6A, 7 PTS)
DRU: Joey Ratelle (4G, 6A, 10 PTS), Georgs Golovkos (6G, 3A, 9 PTS), Guillaume Gauthier (5G, 4A, 9 PTS)

LAST GAMES
Drummondville is coming off a 5-4 win over the Rimouski Oceanic. Christophe Lalancette led the team with 3 assists.

Halifax is coming off a big 3-2 overtime win in Victoriaville against the Tigres. Ryan Falkenham scored two goals while Zach Fucale only had to stop 24 shots.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season    0-0-0-0    0GF    0GA
October 6 @ 5pm  Mooseheads at Voltigeurs
November 14 @ 7pm  Voltigeurs at Mooseheads
Last season    3-0-0-0   16GF    5GA

NOT PLAYING - Once again Darcy Ashley is the only one for sure not playing this evening

OUT OF TOWN
Sea Dogs at Titan - 3:00pm

Eagles at Wildcats - 4:00pm

Ramparts at Armada - 5:00pm

Olympiques at Phoenix - 5:00pm

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

AFTER THE GAME

Halifax will come back home for their longest home stand of the season when the take on the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada. Puck drops at 7pm. 

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.

POSTGAME: Mooseheads 3, Phoenix 2

MC POST-GAME
Halifax gets one back winning 3-2 in shootout against Sherbrooke

FINAL: Mooseheads 3 at Phoenix 2 SO
Attendance: 3,089
Three stars: 3. Desrosiers SHE | 2. Audette SHE | 1. Drouin HAL

Metro Halifax's recap: Jonathan Drouin was the difference makerfor the Halifax Mooseheads on Friday night.

The Chronicle Herald's recap: Jonathan Drouin looked more like his old self Friday night in Sherbrooke, Que.

hockeyphoenix.ca's recap: Le Phoenix s’est incliné par la marque de 3 à 2 en tirs de barrage, mais c’est avec une impression de victoire que les joueurs ont retraité au vestiaire.

The Canadian Press' recap: Jonathan Drouin gave Halifax the boost it needed to edge host herbrooke Phoenix 3-2 in a shootout in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: The Mooseheads survived a late surge by the Phoenix but escaped Sherrooke with their 2 points.

QMJHL.ca's recap: Game summary.

SCORERS: Andrew Ryan (5) HAL 15:28, Jonathan Drouin (1) HAL 19:29, Jean-Francois Plante (3) SHE 36:58, Jean-Christophe Laflamme (2) SHE 50:53

MISSING IN ACTION: Mathieu Boily, Gabrel Fontaine, abriel Labbe and Mitchell Lundholm were not playing for Sherbrooke. It doesn't sound like Halifax was missin anyone but Darcy Ashley who is still out with an injured hand.

DROUIN
Well it seems that it took Jonatha Drouin one game to get back to him old self. After recording no points on Tuesday evening in is season debut, Drouin had a big part in Friday's win in Sherbrooke. He picked up a goal and an assist during regulation and scored the game winner in the shootout.

EHLERS
I think rookie import Nikolaj Ehlers is surprising some people, he certainly is surprising me. He didn't add any more points last night but he did score in the shootout to give the Mooseheads a 1-0 led in the penalty shot part of the game.

COMEBACK
Sherbrooke cam back from being down 2-0 to force overtime.

OTHER SCORES
Saint John 3 - 5 Cape Breton
Bathurst 4 - 1 Moncton
Rimouski 6 - 2 Victoriaville
Drummondville 1 - 4 Blainville
Shawinigan 3 - 4 Rouyn-Noranda OT
Charlottetown 4 - 9 Val-d'Or

NEXT GAME
Halifax will play against the Tigres in Victoriaville to continue a 3-in-3. Puck drops at 5pm.