Moose ranked #8 in week 7

After spending every week in the CHL BMO Top 10 Rankings last season, the Halifax Mooseheads are in it once again. The Canadian Hockey League announced the rankings early this evening for week 7 and for the first time this season your Mooseheads have been ranked on the list. This week was different where there have been 4 teams added to the rankings.

Week 7's CHL Top 10

1. Blainville-Boisbriand Armada (13-1-1-0) last week: 1
2. Guelph Storm (12-3-0-0) last week: 7
3. Spokane Chiefs (11-4-0-0) last week: 3
4. Baie-Comeau Drakkar (12-4-0-2) last week: 9
5. Erie Otters (12-2-1-0) last week: -
6. Portland Winterhawks (11-3-0-1) last week: -
7. Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (11-1-0-2) last week: -
8. Halifax Mooseheads (12-7-0-0) last week: -
9. Seattle Thunderbirds (11-3-0-2) last week: 8
10. Oshawa Generals (11-3-0-1) last week: 10

Honorable mentions:
Everett Silvertips (10-2-2-0
Kelowna Rockets (9-2-0-2)
Gatineau Olympiques (12-6-0-0)

GAMEDAY 20: at Gatineau

IT'S GAMEDAY

GATINEAU OLYMPIQUES vs. HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS

Puck drops at 8:30pm

Robert Guertin Centre (3,196) ~ Gatineau, QC

PREVIEW - After a good weekend against rival Acadie-Bathurst, your Halifax Mooseheads are hitting the road for three games in the province of Quebec. It will start in Gatineau against the Olympiques. This is sort of a homecoming for a couple of the Herd. Mac Weegar was born a 20 minute drive away across the bridge while Jesse Lussier was born 2 hours away in Patawa. Lussier said on twitter that it was nice to be back in Ottawa which must mean he is playing tonight after spending the last few games out with a concussion.


This is the first game between theese two teams since Halifax swept Gatineau in the second round of last year's playoffs. They meet again in February in Moose Country.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
HAL: Nikolaj Ehlers 22pts (8G & 14A), Andrew Ryan 19pts (9G & 10A), Brent Andrews 17pts (7G & 10A)
GAT: Emile Poirier 26pts (12G & 14A), Vaclav Karabacek 15pts (7G & 8A), Martin Reway 14pts (4G & 10A)

LAST GAMES
Gatineau is coming off a 4-2 loss to the Quebec Remparts on Sunday in Quebec. Vincent Dunn led the team in the lossing cause with a goal and assist while goalie Robert Steeves made 20 saves.

Halifax is coming off two big weekend wins against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, the last being on Saturday night with a 4-3 win. Darcy Ashley had a goal and an assist while Zach Fucale only had to made 12 shots.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
October 30 @ 8:30pm  Mooseheads at Olympiques
February 13 @ 7pm  Olympiques at Mooseheads

NOT PLAYING - Ryan Falkenham and Trey Lewis are out indefinitely

OUT OF TOWN
Phoenix at Eagles - 7:00pm
Drakkar at Remparts - 8:00pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @CoolenTQN
Webcast: TELUS
Radio: News 95.7
Post-game: The Q News

AFTER THE GAME
Halifax will continue this 3 game Quebec swing on Friday against Rouyn-Noranda. Puck drops at 8:30pm.

News & Notes from October 29

Here's some news that came out of the Canadian Hockey League, mostly the Q and Halifax, the past few days.

• Darcy Ashley (Halifax), Charles-Eric Legare (Cape Breton) and Alexandre Belanger (Rouyn-Noranda) were named the TELUS three stars for the week ending October 27, 2013. For the full story click here.
• The roster for Team QMJHL for the 2013 Subway Super Series was announced this morning. Check out the roster here. Zach Fucale, Mac Weegar and Jonathan Drouin were named to the team.
• Head coach and General Manager of the Saint John Sea Dogs was released of this duties today. Press release.  
• The CHL Player and Goaltender of the Week were announced today. Darcy Ashley of your Halifax Mooseheads was named the player of the week with 8 points. While Kelowna Rockets Jordon Cooke was named the goaltender of the week.

The BMO Top 10 Rankings for week 7 will be announced tomorrow. Soon we should be seeing our Moose on the list.
Nikolaj Ehlers has taken over the team scoring after recording 4 points in two weekend games. He is second in the Canadian Hockey League's rookie scoring.
Zach Fucale leads the league and the CHL in goaltender wins with 11 in 15 games played.
Pink in the Rink games have been a success. Plenty of people came out to the Halifax pink game with a special Trey Lewis autographed pink jersey auctioned off for over $1250.
Two days until Halloween everyone. Lots of players wearing costumes to school already starting on Monday.

Check back tomorrow afternoon for my preview of the Halifax-Gatineau game Wednesday night.

QMJHL Subway Series Roster Announced

Press release.

The Sherbrooke Phoenix and Gatineau Olypiques along with the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League and Canadian Hockey League announced the roster for the 2013 Subway Series. The two Team QMJHL versus Team Russia games will be held on November 18 in Sherbrooke and November 20 in Gatineau. Last week the coaches for each leagues team was announced.  

Just like last year 4 Halifax Mooseheads have been named as part of the team. Unlike last year, the Herd will have a member at each position on the team. Dom Ducharme was named the assistant coach, Zach Fucale is one of 2 goaltenders, second year defenseman MacKenzie Weegar will help protect his goalie while Jonathan Drouin will look to help Team QMJHL score. Congratulations to the four players of your Mooseheads who made the team. 

Other names include; league leading scorer Anthony Mantha of Val-d'Or, Dillon Fournier of Rouyn who is the younger brother of former Moose Stefan, suspended Charles Hudon of Chicoutimi and stellar Saint John goaltender Sebastien Auger who has faced the most shots so far this season. 

Team QMJHL has a 10-7-3 record against the Russian Selects in the ten year event which started in 2003 on November 17 in London, Ontario. November 20 was the first game between the QMJHL and Russia in which the Selects beat the QMJHL all-stars in Halifax 3 to 2. The CHL has been dominte over Russia in this tournament as the CHL teams have a total record of 44-11-4 with 256 goals for and 150 against. Russia is 15-41-3 so far winning only one year in 2010.

Full roster:
GOALTENDERS
Auger, Sébastien
Fucale, Zachary

DEFENSEMEN
Vanier, Alexis (BAC)
Fournier, Dillon (ROU)
Graves, Ryan (CHA)
Weegar, MacKenzie (HAL)
Hachè, Justin (CAP)
Morin, Samuel (RIM)
Walcott, Daniel (BLB)

FORWARDS
Mantha, Anthony (VDO)
Hudon, Charles (CHI)
Roy, Marc-Olivier (BLB)
Duclair, Anthony (QUE)
Deluca, Anthony (RIM)
Girard, Félix (BAC)
Gauthier, Frédérik (RIM)
Dauphin, Laurent (CHI)
Drouin, Jonathan (HAL)
Carrier, William (CAP)
Gregoire, Jeremy (BAC)
Audette, Daniel (SHE)
Clapperton, Christopher (BLB)
Poirier, Émile (GAT)

Halloween Rookie Challenge

Well it's only 3 days until Halloween, little kids favorite holiday. We've all heard of rookie challenges right? Sometimes it's the rookies getting their head shaved, getting tattoos, driving the vets to practice, etc... Well the rookies of your Halifax Mooseheads were challanged to wear Halloween costumes to school today. Here are the pictures that have been posted.

From Nikolaj Ehlers (middle), with Danny Moynihan (left) and Timo Meier

From Connor Moynihan (middle), with Jacob Jacques (left) and Vince Watt

 From Zach Fucale, rookie Sam Leblanc dresses up at University

Photos from Instagram, Twitter

POSTGAME: Titan 3, Mooseheads 4

MC POST-GAME
Bathurst get swept in home and home series with Halifax

The Canadian Press' recap: Darcy Ashley put the Mooseheads in front for good with a power-play goal at 16:57 of the third period.

Metro Halifax's recap: No one can accuse Darcy Ashley of flat lining since taking over as captain of the Halifax Mooseheads.

Chronicle Herald's recap: It was a different location, but the same result on Saturday night.

Titan Nation's recap: The Halifax Mooseheads managed to squeek out a 4-3 decision over the Acadie-Bathurst Titan to sweep a home-and-home series.

halifaxmooseheads.ca's recap: Darcy Ashley played hero Saturday night thanks to his sidekick Nikolaj Ehlers who set him up for the game winner with 3 minutes to play to give the Moose a 4-3 win over the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.

SCORERS: Andrew Shewfelt (3) HAL 3:33, Robert Pelletier (2) BAT 5:50, Jacob Jacques (1) HAL 11:43, Brent Andrews (7) HAL 24:09, Adam Chapman (3) BAT 25:20, Alexandros Soumakis (8) BAT 30:04, Darcy Ashley (7) HAL 56:57

MISSING IN ACTION: Ryan Falkenham (hips), Trey Lewis (hip) and Jesse Lussier (concussion) were out with injuries while Liam Alcalde and Max Lindsay were healthy scratches.

JACQUES
Rookie Jacob Jacques scored his first career QMJHL goal last night in the first period that gave the Mooseheads a 2-1 lead after one. He was also named the game's third star. Congratulation Jacob.

ASHLEY
Darcy Ashley continues to be an offensive captain with Trey Lewis out. He once again scored the game winner last night. With the goal he added an assist earlier in the game on Jacques first goal. Ashley now has 8 points, three goals, in hi last three games. He was given firs star honors.

EHLERS
Danish rookie Nikolaj Ehlers had two assists in yesterday's game to add to his point total. He now has 22 points in 19 games which leads both the team in scoring and league in rookie scoring.

SWEEP
With the 4-3 win on Saturday night, the home team took the home and home series sweep from the Titan. Halifax has now won all three games between these two teams and will look to get another home and home sweep in a little less than a month from now, November 16 and 22nd.

FIRST PLACE
On Friday, the Herd took over first place in the Maritimes division with the 5-2 win. Both Charlottetown and Halifax were playing last night and the Islanders had a chance to take first place back if they won and the Mooseheads lost. However it was the opposite as Halifax won and the Islanders could not beat the Quebec Remparts despite having a 3-1 lead going into the third. Halifax is now 3 points ahead of Charlottetown.

OTHER SCORES
Cape Breton 4 - 5 Baie-Comeau
Saint John 2 - 3 Chicoutimi SO
Gatineau 5 - 4 Rimouski SO
Moncton 1 - 2 Shawinigan SO
Charlottetown 3 - 6 Quebec

UP NEXT
Halifax will go on another road trip now which starts Wednesday in Gatineau against the Olympiques. Puck drops at 8:30pm.

GAMEDAY 19: vs Acadie-Bathurst

IT'S GAMEDAY

HALIFAX MOOSEHEADS vs. ACADIE-BATHURST TITAN

Puck drops at 7pm

Metro Centre (10,595) ~ Halifax, NS

PREVIEW - Who's going to come out on top this time? The road Acadie-Bathurst Titan or the home Halifax Mooseheads. After splitting the two games last weekend, your Mooseheads have won both games this week. The first was again the 4th ranked Charlottetown Islanders while the other was against these very same Titan last night in Bathurst. Yes it's a home and home series between these two rivals with the games always interesting. Former Herd defenseman Dominic Beauchemin makes his second trip to Moose Country in enemy colors. This should be a good one as it will once again be a goaltending battle. Jacob Brennan and Zach Fucale have virtually the same save percentage with Fucale on top by 0.001 percent but Brennan has seen more pucks come his way.

THE NUMBERS

Leading scorers
BAT: Raphael Lafontaine 16pts (7G & 9A), Adam Stevens 11pts (7G & 4A), Dominic Beachemin 11pts (5G & 6A)
HAL: Nikolaj Ehlers 20pts (8G & 12A), Andrew Ryan 18pts (9G & 9A), Brent Andrews 16pts (6G & 10A)

LAST GAMES
As fore mentioned, these two teams met last night in New Brunswick with the road team in that game coming out on top in a 5 to 2 contest that saw the Titan not record a shot in the third period. Timo Meier scored twice and Jonathan Drouin picked up 3 helpers as Halifax outshot Bathurst 44 to 17.

HEAD-TO-HEAD
This season    2-0-0-0   10GF   5GA
September 25  Titan 3 at Mooseheads 5
October 25  Mooseheads 5 at Titan 2
October 26 @ 7pm   Titan at Mooseheads
November 16 @ 7pm   Mooseheads at Titan
November 22 @ 7pm   Titan at Mooseheads
January 11 @ 7pm   Titan at Mooseheads
January 19 @ 3pm  Mooseheads at Titan
February 16 @ 3pm   Mooseheads at Titan
February 28 @ 7pm   Mooseheads at Titan
Last season     6-0-2-0   50GF   35GA

NOT PLAYING - The same injured players as last night; Trey Lewis, Jesse Lussier and Ryan Falkenham

OUT OF TOWN
Eagles at Drakkar - 5:00pm
Sea Dogs at Sagueneens - 5:00pm
Olympiques at Oceanic - 5:00pm
Wildcats at Cataractes - 5:00pm
Islanders at Huskies - 8:00pm

GAME COVERAGE
TV: None
Live: @ABTitanLive, @HFXMooseheads
Webcast: TELUS
Radio: News 95.7
Post-game: The Q News

AFTER THE GAME
Halifax will travel to Quebec after the buzzer to take on the Gatineau Olympiques on Wednesday night. Puck drops at 8:30pm.