QMJHL roundup: Drakkar use strong second period to roll Remparts 4-1
By The Canadian Press on January 27, 2024.
Second-period goals by Matyas Melovsky and Justin Poirier snapped a 1-1 deadlock and lifted the Baie-Comeau Drakkar to a 4-1 Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League victory over the visiting Quebec Remparts on Saturday. Melovsky added an empty-net goal late in the third and Isaac Dufort scored a short-handed marker for the Drakkar, who outshot the Remparts 37-18. Poirier’s goal was his 35th of the season. Pier-Etienne Cloutier scored for the Remparts, who went 1-for-3 on the power play. The Drakkar went 0-for-5. Elsewhere in the QMJHL on Saturday: — ARMADA 6 CATARACTES 3 SHAWINIGAN, Que. – Vincent Desjardins and Jonathan Fauchon each scored twice and added an assist as the visiting Blainville-Boisbriand Armada defeated the Shawinigan Cataractes 6-3. Xavier Villeneuve and Mateo Nobert also scored for the Armada (21-20-4-0), who outshot the Cataractes 30-27. Kody Dupuis, Natan Ethier and Jiri Klima scored for the Cataractes (20-23-2-1), who trailed 3-0 after the first period and 5-1 heading into the third. — PHOENIX 2 ISLANDERS 1 (OT) CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. – Charles-Antoine Beauregard’s second goal of the game, scored at 1:41 of overtime, gave the visiting Sherbrooke Phoenix a 2-1 victory over the Charlottetown Islanders. Beauregard gave the Phoenix (21-19-1-4) a 1-0 lead at 9:51 of the second period, then Will Allen tied it at 18:16 of the middle frame with a power-play goal for the Islanders (18-24-3-2). The Phoenix outshot the Islanders 33-29. — SEA DOGS 7 TIGRES 4 VICTORIAVILLE, Que. – Tyler Peddle and Pavel Simek each scored twice, and netminder Patrick Leaver stopped 46 of 50 shots as the visiting Saint John Sea Dogs dumped the Victoriaville Tigres 7-4. Egan Beveridge, Drew Elliott and Brody Fournier also scored for the Sea Dogs (16-24-3-3), who led 4-0 after the first period and 5-2 heading into the third. Maxime Pellerin scored twice for the Tigres (29-13-3-0), with Mathis Aguilar and Justin Larose netting singles. The Tigres outshot the Sea Dogs 50-25. — HUSKIES 5 OCEANIC 3 ROUYN-NORANDA, Que. – Louis-Philippe Fontaine scored twice, Jeremy Langlois and Antonin Verreault each had two assists, and the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies defeated the visiting Rimouski Oceanic 5-3. Francois-James Buteau, Mathis Perron and Andrei Loshko also scored for the West Division-leading Huskies (30-11-1-4), who scored two unanswered goals in the third period to snap a 3-3 deadlock. Mael St-Denis, Jacob Mathieu and Spencer Gill scored for the Oceanic (24-20-3-0), who were outshot 44-31. * This roundup was generated automatically with a CP-developed application. This report by The Canadian Press was first published Jan. 27, 2024. 28-27
