POSTGAME: Islanders 0, Mooseheads 5

MC POST-GAME

Here are some stories from last night's 5-0 shutout win over the Charlottetown Islanders

My recap: After a disappointing loss on Sunday evening, the Mooseheads rebounded in a big way with American Danny Moynihan leading the way. 

Islanders Country's recap: Danny Moynihan scored a hat-trick and Zachary Fucale made 28 saves as the Halifax Mooseheads handed the Charlottetown Islanders a 5-0 loss Friday night at Scotiabank Centre. 

The Q News' recap: Danny Moynihan earned his first career hat-trick in the QMJHL as the Halifax Mooseheads defeated the Charlottetown Islanders by a score of 5-0 on Friday night at Scotiabank Centre. 

Metro Halifax's recap: Cole Harbour kid Brett Crossley took his time scoring his first official goal wearing a Herd jersey, but he sure made it a good-lookin' one Friday night. 

The Chronicle Herald's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads continue to trend in the right direction. 

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: The puck had ways of finding Danny Moynihan on Friday night, and the 19-year-old centre easily provided the finishing touches as he tallied the first hat trick of his QMJHL career in a 5-0 Mooseheads victory over the visiting Charlottetown Islanders.

theqmjhl.ca's recap: Game summary.

MISSING IN ACTION: Brandon Vuic (suspension), Josh Fitzgerald (concussion), Morgan Nauss (upper body), Ryan Falkenham (knee) and Cavan Fitzgerald (broken patella)

SCORES
Val-d'Or 1 - 4 Cape Breton
Rouyn-Noranda 1 - 5 Saint John
Blainville-Boisbriand 3 - 6 Quebec
Gatineau 3 - 6 Chicoutimi
Sherbrooke 3 - 4 Rimouski SO
Victoriaville 4 - 5 Shawinigan OT

NEXT GAME: Halifax takes on first place Saint John tonight on home ice hosting the Sea Dogs. Puck drops at 7pm.

RECAP: Danny Scores Hatty

HALIFAX - After a disappointing loss on Sunday evening, the Mooseheads rebounded in a big way with American Danny Moynihan leading the way. The second year centre scored his first career hat trick to lead the hometeam to a 5-0 victory over provincial rivals Charlottetown Islanders. In a month that may not be very good for Halifax, it was nice for the Herd to start of December in a winning way. Hopefully this will ignite the second and third line especially with the top two scorers leaving next weekend to play for their country at the World Juniors. Of course, Danny is on the top line with those two scorers. Rookie Brett Crossley scored his first career goal on a nice dirty tip in. Kelly Bent is an enemy to the Isles too as he got into another fight and more conversations with the opponents. It was a night bout with Bradley Kennedy that lasted a couple of minutes but he'll most likely get a game suspension since it was in the last five minutes left.

FINAL: Islanders 0 at Mooseheads 5
Stars: 3. Crossley HAL | 2. Fucale HAL | 1. D. Moynihan HAL
Attendance: 6,864
MC's Top Herd: Brett Crossley

GAME LOG
First period
3:26 HAL Danny Moynihan (12) | A: Ehlers
4:34 HAL Philippe Gadoury (11), PP | A: Ehlers & Murphy

Shots: Halifax led first period shots 13 to 9 over Charlottetown

Second period
1:52 HAL Danny Moynihan (13) | A: Murphy & Watt

Shots: The Islanders had another 9 pucks to the net to the Mooseheads' 7

Third period
1:36 HAL Brett Crossley (1) | A: None
10:58 HAL Danny Moynihan (14) | A: Ehlers & Murphy

Shots: Last period shots were close with Halifax leading 11-10 and having a 31-28 lead in total shots

POWERPLAY
Charlottetown: 0-for-3
Halifax: 1-for-7

GOALIES
Winning goaltender: Zach Fucale HAL 28 saves
Losing goaltender: Mason McDonald CHA 22 saves

Great Month For Nikolaj Continues

A day after being named the QMJHL's first star of the week, the Halifax Mooseheads Danish forward Nikolaj Ehlers was named the 1st star of the month for November as well as the CHL Player of the Week.

Nikolaj's player profile pic
on halifaxmooseheads.ca

Ehlers played in all 12 Mooseheads games in November and had at least a point in each game. Nik had a total of 34 points which included 12 goals and 22 assists. He led the team in most categories during the month and had an incredible plus-15 rating. In just 21 games played this season, Ehlers has 43 points which has jumped him to a tie for fourth in league scoring.

He is joined by forward Conor Garland of the Moncton Wildcats is the 2nd star and Blainville-Boisbriand Armada's goaltender Samuel Montembeault is the 3rd star.


Toronto, ON – The Canadian Hockey League today announced that Winnipeg Jets prospect Nikolaj Ehlers of the Halifax Mooseheads is the CHL Player of the Week for the week ending November 30 with 13 points in three games including five goals and eight assists with a plus-minus rating of plus-5.

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, Brett Crossley was named the Scholastic Player of the Month for November 2014. Crossley missed half of the month because of an injury that he is still recovering from.

BAC	Bokondji Imama	Cégep de Baie-Comeau
BAT	Christophe Boivin	Cégep à distance
BLB	Philippe Sanche	Cégep de St-Jérôme
CAP	Duncan MacIntyre	Athabasca University
CHA	Julien Avon	Cégep à distance
CHI	Julio Bilia	Cégep de Chicoutimi
DRU	Joe Fleschler	Athabasca University
GAT	Noah Zilbert	UNB
HAL	Brett Crossley	Prince Andrew High School
MON	Adam Holwell	Harrison Trimble High School
QUE	Nicolas Hébert	Cégep de Limoilou
RIM	Simon Bourque	Cégep de Rimouski
ROU	Jacob Neveu	Académie les Estacades
SHA	Alex Pawelczyk	Athabasca University
SHE	Jeremy Roy	College Champlain Lennoxville
SNB	Braydon Blight	UNBSJ
VDO	Guillaume Archambault	Cégep de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue
VIC	Félix Lauzon	École polyvalente Le Boisé

QMJHL Names 3 Stars, Ehlers Among Them

The Quebec Major Junior Hockey League announced the three stars of the week today. The Dashing Dane, Nikolaj Ehlers of your Halifax Mooseheads was listed as the first star for the week of November 24 to 30, 2014.

In 3 games in the past week, Nikolaj scored 5 goals and recorded 13 points to help the Mooseheads get 2 wins over good teams in the last 7 days. In a 6-3 victory over the Shawinigan Cataractes, Ehlers had 5 assists which tied him for the most assists on the road by a Moosehead player. He followed that performance with 6 points (4G & 2A) on Saturday night in the 8-5 win over the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies. He now has a 13 game point streak, recording at least one point in every game during November. The streak has jumped him all the way to fifth among in the league for total points.

The league also named Danick Martel of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada as the second star while Drummondville Voltigeur's goalie Joe Fleschler was rewarded the third star.

For the full story see here.

Herd Word

Fucale with the Montreal & Toronto brass at the announcement
Photo via: Mark Master on Twitter

WORLD JUNIORS
A total of 29 players will be attending this year's Hockey Canada's World Juniors selection camp that is set to begin December 11. Halifax Mooseheads goaltender Zach Fucale will be one of two goalies at the camp. This means that Fucale will be playing for Team Canada during the 2015 World Junior Championships starting on Boxing Day. If Montreal Canadians fans want to see how their possible future goaltender is doing they are in luck because Canada will be playing their round robin games in Montreal. Zach is just one of three QMJHL players that was named to the selection camp roster today.

We will have to wait and see if Nathan MacKinnon and Jonathan Drouin will be on the final roster for Team Canada. The team has to name it's roster on Christmas Day.

BANVILLE
Halifax Mooseheads prospect Eddie Banville has been invited to Team East's selection camp for the World Junior 'A' Challenge that will be held between December 14 and December 20th. Check out The Q News for all the news and coverage of the tournament. Congrats Eddie, make Moose Country proud.

ROAD TRIP
The Mooseheads are coming back home from a three game six day road trip in Quebec. Halifax went 2-1-0-0 on the trip and scored a total of 18 goals while allowing 14 goals during the 3 games. The loss game on Sunday evening against the Val-d'Or Foreurs which ended a four game win streak for the Herd. The other two games were on Thursday against Shawinigan and Saturday against Rouyn-Noranda, winning 6-3 and 8-5 respectively.

HOLIDAY PACKS
The talk of world juniors means that the holidays are right around the corner. Your Mooseheads have a deal on right now where you receive three flex vouchers to use in any combination during the season. Get it in time for Christmas (they're on sale now until close on December 24th) and use it as a stocking stuffer for the hockey fan in your family. Prices start at $24 for a Youth pack. Full info here.

UP NEXT
Like I said above Halifax is on their way home. They will have a four game homestand to start December off. The first game will be another battle against the Charlottetown Islanders on Friday night. Saint John comes to town on Saturday night. Both games start at 7pm.

POSTGAME: Mooseheads 4, Foreurs 6

MC POST-GAME

Here;s some stories from last night's 6-4 loss against the Val-d'Or Foreurs

The Q News' recap: Less than 24 hours after a humiliating 11-1 loss, the Val-d'Or Foreurs responded with a hard fought 6-4 victory over the Halifax Mooseheads Sunday afternoon, Nov. 30, in Val-d'Or.

Metro Halifax's recap: It was a bittersweet weekend on the road for the Halifax Mooseheads.

The Chronicle Herald's recap: Another comeback was not in the cards for the Halifax Mooseheads on Sunday. 

The Canadian Press' recap: Jeremie Fraser and Anthony Richard had two goals and an assist each as the Foreurs sank Halifax.

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: The Mooseheads had a sweep of a three-game road trip in their sights but it wasn't in the cards for the Herd on Sunday afternoon in Val d'Or as Halifax lost 6-4 to the defending President's Cup Champions at the Air Creebec Centre snapping a four-game winning streak for the Moose.

theqmjhl.ca's recap: Game summary.

MISSING IN ACTION: Vince Wat (upper body), Josh Fitzgerald (concussion), Tristan Tardif (healthy), Ryan Falkenham (lower body), Morgan Nauss (upper body), Brett Crossley (concussion) and Cavan Fitzgerald (broken patella)

SCORES
Charlottetown 1 - 5 Moncton
Acadie-Bathurst 4 - 3 Saint John SO
Blainville-Boisbriand 6 - 3 Cape Breton
Chicoutimi 3 - 0 Drummondville
Quebec 2 - 3 Rimouski OT
Victoriaville 5 - 4 Rouyn-Noranda

NEXT GAME: Halifax will come home for four games starting on Friday against the Charlottetown Islanders. Puck drops at 7pm.