Historic Night for Dumais

Photo - Myles Dennis

It was a historic night for Jordan Dumais as the 18-year-old recorded 6 points for the Halifax Mooseheads to move into second place on the team's career points list. In what might have been a playoff preview, the home Moose cruised to a pretty easy 9-0 victory over the Charlottetown Islanders on Wednesday evening. Dylan MacKinnon got the party started with just over five minutes remaining in the first period while Attilio Biasca and Alexandre Doucet would add to the lead before the opening frame ended. In the second, it looked like Halifax would continue their second period sit back/play terrible routine but they kept the pressure on and were able to extend the lead to 5-0 after 40 minutes. Dumais scored his 53rd of the season at the 15:34 mark of the middle frame on the power play. Charlottetown would come out in the third period with a new goaltender in net but it didn't help the Islanders at all and in fact, he looked a little worse letting in two goals that probably normally would've been stopped. Three of four goals for Halifax in the final frame were on the power play. Dumais' four assists during the game moved him above Ramzi Abid for the franchise record of assists in a single season with 82. The historic year will continue on Friday I am sure as the Mooseheads fight for first overall in the league. 

FINAL: Islanders 0 at Mooseheads 9
Stars: 3. Zachary L'Heureux HAL | 2. Josh Lawrence HAL | 1. Jordan Dumais HAL
Attendance: 6,964

GAME LOG
First period
14:56 HAL Dylan MacKinnon (6) | A: Dumais & Schultz
17:04 HAL Attilio Biasca (24) | A: Furlong & L'Heureux
18:19 HAL Alexandre Doucet (57) | A: Dumais & Lawrence

Second period 
15:34 HAL Jordan Dumais (53), PP | A: Doucet & Lawrence
19:56 HAL Josh Lawrence (46), PP | A: Schultz & Dumais

Third period
8:36 HAL Jake Furlong (7) | A: Cataford & L'Heureux
9:53 HAL Josh Lawrence (47), PP | A: Doucet & Dumais
12:44 HAL Reece Peitzsche (6), PP | A: Biasca & Cataford
13:43 HAL Jordan Dumais (54), PP | A: Phillips & Lawrence

Shots: 44-20 in favour of Halifax
Powerplay: CHA - 0-for-2, HAL 5-for-7

SCORES
Cape Breton 6 at Moncton 5 OT
Victoriaville 0 at Drummondville 4
Quebec 6 at Shawinigan 3
Gatineau 3 at Sherbrooke 4 OT

Missing in action: Jake Todd (appendix), Cameron Whynot (healthy), Liam Welsh (healthy)

Up next: Halifax will welcome their provincial rivals, the Cape Breton Eagles for Friday night hockey. Puck drops at 7:00pm.