Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Moose Announce Roster

YOUR 2015-16 HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

1  Eric Brassard  G  (Longueuil, QC)
2  Cooper Jones  D Bridgewater, MA, USA) *
3  Walter Flower  D  (Lunenburg, NS)*
4  Domenico Argento  D  (Montreal, QC)
5  Cavan Fitzgerald  D  (Boston, MA, USA)
9  Jean-Sebastien Taillefer  D  (Les Coteaux, QC)
11  Morgan Nauss  D  (Hammonds Plain, NS)
12  Danny Moynihan  C  (Windham, NH, USA)
16  Vincent Watt  LW  (Pointe Claire, QC)
17  Brett Crossley  C  (Dartmouth, NS)
21  Arnaud Durandeau  LW  (Beaconsfield, QC)*
26  Taylor Ford  D  (Dorval, QC)
28  Dominik Blain-Dupuis  C  (Gatineau, QC)*
32  Andrew Shewfelt  RW  (Dartmouth, NS)
34  Kelly Bent  RW  (Halifax, NS)
40  Kevin Resop  G  (St. Petersburg, FL, USA) 
41  Maxime Fortier  RW  (Lachine, QC)
51  Barrett Dachyshyn  C  (Halifax, NS)*
53  Ilya Putintsev  RW  (Moscow, Russia)*
61  Joel Bishop  C  (St. John's, NL)*
71  Connor Moynihan  LW  (Windham, NH, USA)
81  Cody Donaghey  D  (St. John's, NL)
89  Otto Somppi  C  (Helsinki, Finland)* 
96  Timo Meier  RW  (Herisau, Switzerland)


*indicates rookie

CAMP: Moose release 3 more

Photo - Mooseheads website

The Halifax Mooseheads announced this afternoon that they have released 3 more players. This is definitely a rebuild year after they cut two players from last year's team. Defenceman Mathieu Charlesbois was sent back to his QMAAA team while Sam Hunter and forward Jordan King were released after not being claimed on waivers.

With this recent round of cuts, the roster for your 2015-16 Mooseheads is official. I will post the roster and numbers later tonight.

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

CAMP: Down to 27

Photo - Herd website

Your Halifax Mooseheads announced this morning another round of cuts at training camp. The cuts come after another disappointing weekend of pre-season games, where Saturday's matchup in Truro was called off because of fog and Sunday's ended in a 5-1 defeat against Moncton.

Players cut:
Ben Higgins     F
Denis Toner     D
Eddie Banville     F
Makail Parker     F

This leaves 27 players in camp; including 2 goaltenders, 10 defenceman and 15 forwards.

Saturday, August 22, 2015

Pre-season Game vs. Charlottetown

The Halifax Mooseheads continue their preseason tonight in Truro against the Charlottetown Islanders


Opponent: Charlottetown Islanders
Where: Rath Eastlink Community Centre (Truro)
When: August 22nd 2015
Time: 7:00pm
Tickets: $10.00

Charlottetown Islanders
Preseason record: 2-0-0-0, 6pts
Goals for: 17
Goals against: 5
Head coach: Jim Hulton
Scoring leader: David Comeau (2G & 4A)
Leading goaltender: Matthew Welsh (0.00 GAA)

Halifax Mooseheads
Preseason record: 0-2-0-0, 0pts
Goals for: 5
Goals against: 9
Head coach: Dominique Ducharme
Scoring leader: Arnaud Durandeau (3A)
Leading goaltender: Kevin Martin (0.00 GAA)


Notes...
  • Tickets can be purchased at the arena or online only now after the Mooseheads box office sold out of their limited amount of tickets
  • Halifax is looking for their first win in the preseason
  • This is the first meeting against the Islanders in the preseason

Here are the official line-ups for tonight’s preseason game:
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Poll #12

As we get close to the regular season, I thought I would post another poll. Where do you think the Halifax Mooseheads will finish the 2015-2016 QMJHL season in the standings?
  1. 1st in the League
  2. 1st in the Maritimes division
  3. 2nd in the Maritimes division
  4. 3rd in the Maritimes division
  5. 4th-6th in the Maritimes division
  6. Bottom 5 of the QMJHL


One, two, three, VOTE!!

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

CAMP: Moose cut two more, Somppi arrives

It's official. Everyone assumed but the Halifax Mooseheads made it official that they will go with the same goaltending duo that they had last season after another round of cuts were made today.

Otto Somppi
Photo - Herd twitter
Players cut:
Kevin Martin   G
Raphael Blais   G

With those two cuts it leaves the training camp roster at 31.




Today, Otto Somppi arrived after taking part in the Ivan Hlinka Tournament in the Czech Republic. Somppi played for Finland and he had three points in the preliminary round. Today was his first day practicing with the team after a long trip from Finland. In an article posted by the team, it is not decided if he will play on Saturday in the exhibition game against the Charlottetown Islanders.

Monday, August 17, 2015

CAMP: Overager situation decided

The Halifax Mooseheads announced their first round of cuts this morning. Among them were 20 year olds Brandon Vuic and Sam Leblanc which means that the team has decided on who they would like their overagers to be. Halifax will be going with Eric Brassard, Danny Moynihan and Kelly Bent for the upcoming season which really is no surprise to anyone. The Mooseheads cut a total of 14 players over the weekend but didn't announce the names until this morning. Protected goalie Ryan Huestis tweeted early on Monday that he is looking forward to joining the Valley Wildcats this weekend. It leaves 32 players left in camp with Otto Somppi to join the team tomorrow.

Players cut:
Ryan MacDonald     F
Blake Fudge     F
Tristan Tardif      F
Sam Leblanc     F
Marc-Olivier Gilbert     F
Drew Packman      F
Gabriel Vanier      F
Josh Fitzgerald     D
Brandon Vuic      F
Nicholas Gibson     D
Jordan Lepage     D
Kirklin Allen      G
Ryan Huestis      G
J-P Brais      G

Forwards Jakov Novak and Dallas Farrell voluntarily left camp late last week. No reason was given.

Good luck to the players who were cut today in their careers this season.