Big Win in CB to End 2022

Photo - Eagles website

Our Halifax Mooseheads might have been on the road but did they ever end 2022 in a big way! With the 2023 World Juniors being played at the Scotiabank Centre to end the calendar year, the Mooseheads played back-to-back games in Sydney against the Cape Breton Eagles. Halifax lost the first match this weekend but Mathis Rousseau was not going to let his team lose two in a row. Recently acquired forward Josh Lawrence continued to prove that Cam Russell and co. made the right decision as he recorded 7 points on Saturday afternoon as the Herd won 11-3. Zachary L'Heureux also continued to rack up points since his return as he opened the scoring and finished the game with four points. Eagles overager Ivan Ivan tied it up at 1 at the 10:07 mark and he scored again early in the second period which made it 3-2 for the road team at that point. The Mooseheads would go on to score 8 straight goals to extend their lead with Lawrence scoring his hat trick goal with just over two and a half minutes remaining in the middle frame. Surprisingly, only one of the 11 goals Halifax scored were on the man advantage but they did have just 3 power plays during the game. 

FINAL: Mooseheads 11 at Eagles 3
Stars: 3. Jordan Dumais HAL | 2. Zachary L'Heureux HAL | 1. Josh Lawrence HAL
Attendance: 2,140

GAME LOG
First period
6:19 HAL Zachary L'Heureux (12) | A: Lawrence & MacKinnon
10:07 CAP Ivan Ivan (11) | A: Squires & Johnson
14:39 HAL Jake Furlong (4) | A: Doucet & Cataford
18:40 HAL Josh Lawrence (17) | A: L'Heureux

Second period 
0:22 CAP Ivan Ivan (12) | A: Johnson & Lavoie
3:25 HAL Josh Lawrence (18), PP | A: Whynot
7:31 HAL Jordan Dumais (26) | A: L'Heureux & Vidicek
13:14 HAL Cameron Whynot (3) | A: Lawrence & Furlong
17:28 HAL Josh Lawrence (19) | A: L'Heureux 

Third period
0:56 HAL Jordan Dumais (27) | A: Schultz & Vidicek
4:42 HAL Mathieu Cataford (21) | A: Lawrence & Whynot
11:51 HAL Alexandre Doucet (31) | A: Dumais & Vidicek
12:36 HAL Josh Lawrence (20) | A: MacKinnon
18:21 CAP Luke Patterson (8) | A: None

Shots: 43-27 in favour of Halifax 
Powerplay: HAL - 1-for-3, CAP - 0-for-2

SCORES
Acadie-Bathurst 2 at Charlottetown 3
Moncton 4 at Saint John 1
Sherbrooke 5 at Quebec 2
Drummondville 5 at Rimouski 4
Val-d'Or 0 at Rouyn-Noranda 8
Baie-Comeau 6 at Chicoutimi 5 OT
Shawinigan 2 at Victoriaville 5
Gatineau 5 at Blainville-Boisbriand 4

Missing in action: Attilio Biasca (WJC) and David Moravec (WJC)

Up next: Halifax will continue their road trip with their first game of 2023 against the Sea Dogs in Saint John on January 6