The Q announced its roster for the upcoming matchup between Team QMJHL and Team Russia in the 2012 SUBWAY® Super Series. Look carefully and you might find a familiar name (or you already know who it is, since my title spoiled you);
GOALTENDERS
Brassard, Francois (QUE)
Fucale, Zachary (HAL)
Marcoux, Étienne (BLB)
DEFENSEMEN
Murphy, Matt (VDO)
Racine, Jonathan (MON)
Fournier, Dillon (ROU)
Culkin, Ryan (QUE)
Brouillard, Nikolas (DRU)
Ouellet, Xavier (BLB)
Melindy, James (MON)
Oligny, Jimmy (PEI)
FORWARDS
Mantha, Anthony (VDO)
Dea, Jean-Sébastien (ROU)
Hudon, Charles (CHI)
Huberdeau, Jonathan (SNB)
Henley, Samuel (VDO)
Paquette, Cédric (BLB)
Tesink, Ryan (SNB)
Danault, Phillip (VIC)
MacKinnon, Nathan (HAL)
Beauvillier, Francis (RIM)
Drouin, Jonathan (HAL)
Carrier, William (CAP)
Clapperton, Christopher (BLB)
Andrews, Brent (HAL)
Yes, the younger of the two Brouillards has managed to crack the list. Note that it is significantly far from November 5th, so this has the possibility of changing a ton between now and then. If you're superstitious like me, send vibes or even a crane to lift Brouillard from place to place so that he doesn't step on any cracks in the sidewalk.
As for Drummondville: Another Abitibi weekend ahead. Rouyn is stupidly good lately, going 8-2-0-1 and even ahead of Quebec. Note how many guys they have on the roster up there. There probably should be more. Val-d'Or is slightly less well-off, 4-6-0-0, but no less dangerous. They have three guys up there and not for nothing (other than to show off their future draftees).
Shameless promotion: If you are from or are visiting the Montreal area this weekend, come watch Gabriel Dumont and Frédéric St-Denis with the rest of the Bulldogs as they take on the Marlies, this Saturday, at McLean's Pub (1210 Peel) as part of the first All Habs Hockey Party of the season. Or stay home, whatever.
Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Sunday, 14 October 2012
So nobody ruined the circus.
...But they did try, so there is that. And this happened today:
5-4 W. So there is that as well.
If you haven't already, check out my pictures from the Halifax game!
Alum-roundup: Tonight the McGill Redmen men's hockey team took on the Carleton Ravens (pictures from this game will eventually surface as well). They won 6-4, and Ryan McKiernan would have had two goals but one was stolen from him by........Jonathan Brunelle. They were first and second star, respectively, and Marc-Olivier Vachon was all up in the assists and faceoff categories. Also J-P Mathieu and Benoit Levesque were there and the latter had a goal, yes, you get the picture, ex-Voltspalooza.
Elsewhere in the CIS, Remi Blanchard (U de Moncton) took on Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (UNB) and the former's team came out the victors this evening. Blanchard himself picked up a pair of assists. Meanwhile, Olivier Donovan scored in a losing cause for UQTR as they fell 6-2 to Ottawa.
Raman Hrabarenka didn't take long to get his first AHL point (assist), just 8 minutes, 18 seconds. Albany lost, though, 2-1. Former Volts' goaltender Jake Allen was unfortunate enough to take part in a 6-2 Peoria loss to Abbotsford. For their part, Adirondack and Sean Couturier had a better night. Couts took home first star honours in a 6-3 win over Portland (1 goal, 1 assist, six shots on goal). The Hamilton Bulldogs snuck out a 4-3 win in a shootout which Gabriel Dumont contributed to with a goal. Fred St-Denis was a +2. Mike Hoffman got an assist on the game-winning goal for Binghamton against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Ondrej Palat got an assist as Syracuse beat Hershey, 4-3.
The only ex-Drummondville player on an official ECHL list, Mr. Bouvet-Morrissette, was not on Cincinnati's starting roster this evening. The C(entral)HL is still in exhibition and the Bloomington Blaze counts Pier-Olivier Pelletier in its lineup while the Allen Americans have both Scott Howes and Andrew Randazzo in their ranks. The Denver Cutthroats (!) have one Takuma Kawai as part of theirs.
The LNAH was also full of ex-Volts doing productive (and penalty-productive) things, but I should have a whole post dedicated to that in the near future. Maybe.
Enough information you didn't need? Good!
| Buts | |
| 1. DRU Bryce Milson, (3) (Guillaume Gauthier, Charles-David Beaudoin), 1:01 | |
| 1. DRU Marc-Olivier Brouillard, (4) (Jérôme Verrier, Jordan Murray), 11:10 (AN) | |
| 1. DRU Olivier Caouette, (1) (Jérémy Auger, Andrew Tessier), 16:26 | |
| 2. VIC Jean-Francois Leblanc, (2) (Petr Sidlik, Mathieu Ayotte), 5:13 (AN) | |
| 2. VIC Philippe Maillet, (3) (Tommy Veilleux, Philippe Halley), 11:31 | |
| 2. DRU Jordan Murray, (3) , 16:33 | |
| 2. DRU Jordan Murray, (4) (Bryce Milson), 19:42 (AN) | |
| 3. VIC Philippe Maillet, (4) (Carl-Antoine Delisle, Angelo Miceli), 5:39 (AN) | |
| 3. VIC Angelo Miceli, (5) (Phillip Danault, Tommy Veilleux), 19:00 | |
5-4 W. So there is that as well.
If you haven't already, check out my pictures from the Halifax game!
Alum-roundup: Tonight the McGill Redmen men's hockey team took on the Carleton Ravens (pictures from this game will eventually surface as well). They won 6-4, and Ryan McKiernan would have had two goals but one was stolen from him by........Jonathan Brunelle. They were first and second star, respectively, and Marc-Olivier Vachon was all up in the assists and faceoff categories. Also J-P Mathieu and Benoit Levesque were there and the latter had a goal, yes, you get the picture, ex-Voltspalooza.
Elsewhere in the CIS, Remi Blanchard (U de Moncton) took on Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (UNB) and the former's team came out the victors this evening. Blanchard himself picked up a pair of assists. Meanwhile, Olivier Donovan scored in a losing cause for UQTR as they fell 6-2 to Ottawa.
Raman Hrabarenka didn't take long to get his first AHL point (assist), just 8 minutes, 18 seconds. Albany lost, though, 2-1. Former Volts' goaltender Jake Allen was unfortunate enough to take part in a 6-2 Peoria loss to Abbotsford. For their part, Adirondack and Sean Couturier had a better night. Couts took home first star honours in a 6-3 win over Portland (1 goal, 1 assist, six shots on goal). The Hamilton Bulldogs snuck out a 4-3 win in a shootout which Gabriel Dumont contributed to with a goal. Fred St-Denis was a +2. Mike Hoffman got an assist on the game-winning goal for Binghamton against Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. Ondrej Palat got an assist as Syracuse beat Hershey, 4-3.
The only ex-Drummondville player on an official ECHL list, Mr. Bouvet-Morrissette, was not on Cincinnati's starting roster this evening. The C(entral)HL is still in exhibition and the Bloomington Blaze counts Pier-Olivier Pelletier in its lineup while the Allen Americans have both Scott Howes and Andrew Randazzo in their ranks. The Denver Cutthroats (!) have one Takuma Kawai as part of theirs.
The LNAH was also full of ex-Volts doing productive (and penalty-productive) things, but I should have a whole post dedicated to that in the near future. Maybe.
Enough information you didn't need? Good!
Friday, 12 October 2012
The Circus
Instead of being pessimistic about Wednesday night's loss against Sherbrooke (that I totally called because teams with no wins tend to reverse that fate against teams I choose to blog about), I have decided to move on.
To the circus.
Yes! The circus: Not the actual circus, just a perpetual one with green-and-red tents even though it's not as close to Christmas as some store-fronts would have you believe (dear God. It's not even Halloween yet. Calm down already). The one with a moose on it as imposing as the stuffed animals in several Canadian souvenir boutiques, except this time they're actually a team to be reckoned with so maybe we should be a little scared. Draw some frown lines on that moose. They're ready!
(How apparent is it that I have not had coffee all day?)
Anyway. Starring ring-leader MacKinnon!
(Stop, hammer time?)
The keeper of the cage, Zachary Fucale:
Normally the lion would be in there but he's injured:
Careful bro, he'll totally rip your head off.
Quit judging my use of Photoshop (my sincere apologies to Jonathan Drouin). I only have an hour, here.
TVA Sports tried to be nice to us by headlining Ringleader and Archambault in their tweet, but when you click on the link, you quickly realize that tonight is not even remotely about Les Voltigeurs de Drummondville, it really is about the circus that has come to town. They will spin circles and amaze their audience and feed the media a ton of lines with their feats of glory!...But maybe, hopefully, somebody will ruin the circus.
Somebody wearing red and black.
For my first game back at the Centre Marcel Dionne in over two years, somebody wearing red and black better ruin the circus.
Okay, but seriously: Maybe I better feed you some numbers instead of my ridiculous analogies.
Halifax: 7-1-0-0, 14 points, second in the league (not sure why, they're dead-on with Quebec), 42 GF, 20 GA, 5-game winning streak, MacKinnon and Drouin each have 15 points in 8 and 7 games respectively, Fucale has a 2.25 GAA with a .901 SV%.
Drummondville: 4-4-0-0, 8 points, 10th in the league, 20 GF, 24 GA, just handed Sherbrooke their first win in franchise history, Archambault has 7 points in 8 games, Graham stands at 3.07 GAA and .867 SV%.
Head-to-head: Drummondville lost all three games against the Moose last season, the worst of which was their last: 6-2 on January 12th in Halifax. The others were by one goal, 4-3 and 2-1 respectively.
Alum-news?: I wish. Nothing of note that I can remember happened since the last post. If I'm wrong, let me know in the comments!
To the circus.
Yes! The circus: Not the actual circus, just a perpetual one with green-and-red tents even though it's not as close to Christmas as some store-fronts would have you believe (dear God. It's not even Halloween yet. Calm down already). The one with a moose on it as imposing as the stuffed animals in several Canadian souvenir boutiques, except this time they're actually a team to be reckoned with so maybe we should be a little scared. Draw some frown lines on that moose. They're ready!
(How apparent is it that I have not had coffee all day?)
Anyway. Starring ring-leader MacKinnon!
The keeper of the cage, Zachary Fucale:
Normally the lion would be in there but he's injured:
Careful bro, he'll totally rip your head off.
Quit judging my use of Photoshop (my sincere apologies to Jonathan Drouin). I only have an hour, here.
TVA Sports tried to be nice to us by headlining Ringleader and Archambault in their tweet, but when you click on the link, you quickly realize that tonight is not even remotely about Les Voltigeurs de Drummondville, it really is about the circus that has come to town. They will spin circles and amaze their audience and feed the media a ton of lines with their feats of glory!...But maybe, hopefully, somebody will ruin the circus.
Somebody wearing red and black.
For my first game back at the Centre Marcel Dionne in over two years, somebody wearing red and black better ruin the circus.
Okay, but seriously: Maybe I better feed you some numbers instead of my ridiculous analogies.
Halifax: 7-1-0-0, 14 points, second in the league (not sure why, they're dead-on with Quebec), 42 GF, 20 GA, 5-game winning streak, MacKinnon and Drouin each have 15 points in 8 and 7 games respectively, Fucale has a 2.25 GAA with a .901 SV%.
Drummondville: 4-4-0-0, 8 points, 10th in the league, 20 GF, 24 GA, just handed Sherbrooke their first win in franchise history, Archambault has 7 points in 8 games, Graham stands at 3.07 GAA and .867 SV%.
Head-to-head: Drummondville lost all three games against the Moose last season, the worst of which was their last: 6-2 on January 12th in Halifax. The others were by one goal, 4-3 and 2-1 respectively.
Alum-news?: I wish. Nothing of note that I can remember happened since the last post. If I'm wrong, let me know in the comments!
Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Vacation, shmaycation
A bunch of things decided they would take place the weekend I was off in Far Far Away (no donkeys included, but several cows and kittens. Also no reception).
First, when players become DJs:
When DJs become scorers:
SHA Raphaël Maheux, (1) (Frédérick Gaudreau, Dylan Labbé)
DRU Bryce Milson, (1) (Jérôme Verrier, Jordan Murray)
DRU Jérémy Auger, (1) (Jérôme Verrier)
SHA Olivier Jodoin, (1) (Zachary Taylor, Lukas Pozgay)
SHA JC Campagna, (1) (Jonathan Narbonne, Jean-Christophe Houde)
SHA Jonathan Narbonne, (1) (Dylan Labbé, Frédérick Gaudreau)
DRU Olivier Archambault, (3) (Nikolas Brouillard, Jérémie Malouin)
Aaaand with the Volts no longer capable of keeping up the charge they had going in the first, #theshawi wins 4-3, Narbonne with the GWG. News dropped this morning that he has since joined the Moncton Wildcats as part of a trade that was originally thought to alleviate the 20-year old player count on the Memorial Cup champs' roster, at least until it was revealed that Patrick Downe is also 20. So why split up the DJs?
Hang on, this is a Drummondville blog. Moving on...
Scraping out a W in Victo: After that disappointing loss against #theshawi, the Volts decided to take it out on the Tigres. It took until 17:05 of the second period for someone to score, and that someone was Victo's Philippe Hudon. At the tail end of a power play (!) to open the 3rd, Marc-Olivier Brouillard tied the game with help from Olivier Archambault and Jordan Murray. The latter then enlisted the same guys to help him win the game in overtime, the end result of a major penalty on Hudon who had taken out his frustrations on the younger Brouillard behind Drummondville's net and thus permitted a 4 on 3 to begin the overtime period.
Drummondville is now 4-3-0-0 to start the season and take on the winless Sherbrooke Phoenix on Wednesday.
Hrabarenka, so long (for real, now): We knew this already, but it's official now. Raman Hrabarenka/Graborenko/That Guy has moved on to greener pastures in Albany, which officially also opens up a Euro spot...
And then there was Török: Speaking of Sherbrooke, they traded 6'2" right-winger Tomáš Török to the Volts for a sixth round pick in 2014, which alleviates said extra Euro spot and gives the Slovakian a chance to take on his former teammates as soon as tomorrow. The 17 year old recorded 20 points in 9 games with HVK Svolen's Under-18s and four points in 13 games with their Under-20s last season. He had only played in 5 of Sherbrooke's 7 games before being traded, picking up 1 assist.
Howes it going: Scott Howes made a brief appearance at Texas Stars' training camp, and then back to Allen to participate in the Americans' training camp, where it was discovered that not only have they invited his brother Andrew to take part, but also another Andrew...Randazzo. The Ontario bracket of Drummondville seems to be quite aptly represented in the Lone Star State!
Lefebvre with Wheeling: In Bulldogs' camp, the roster that began with 43 players is continuing to thin out, as Hamilton have released one-time Voltigeur Olivier Fortier and sent Philippe Lefebvre down to the ECHL. For their part, Frédéric St-Denis and Gabriel Dumont are expected to be part of the final Bulldogs' roster.
University roundup: The CIS season is already underway, and should you be looking for more local forms of hockey to replace the NHL and can't always get to Drummondville (like me in the last, oh, two years), you can still have an alumni-fix (and take part in some really cool, competitive hockey):
Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Ryan McKiernan, Marc-Olivier Vachon, Jonathan Brunelle, and Benoit Levesque are (at last check) McGill Redmen;
Corey Garland and Olivier Jannard are Concordia Stingers;
Guillaume Nadeau and Olivier Hotte are Patriotes (UQTR);
...and a bunch of teams have yet to play so I cannot appropriately peruse their rosters.
Look, this already happened:
Jonathan Brunelle (Jean-Philippe Mathieu & Marc-Olivier Vachon) !!!
Alumni to return to Drummondville: La Tournée des Joueurs is set to visit Drummondville next Thursday, the 18th of October at 7 p.m. Tickets are going on sale for Volts' season ticket holders this Thursday and Friday from 9-9 before being opened up to the public on Saturday at 10 a.m. The latter sale is also supposedly going to be made available online and by phone, and the tickets (that get snatched up rather quickly) cost $20.
First, when players become DJs:
Best remix for nightclub by DJ Jods (@OliJods10) feat DJ Narby (@Jonarby15) Official Pre-Game song of : Shawinigan Cataractes QMJHLI may or may not be playing it at work at times that are not my lunch break such as it is currently.
When DJs become scorers:
SHA Raphaël Maheux, (1) (Frédérick Gaudreau, Dylan Labbé)
DRU Bryce Milson, (1) (Jérôme Verrier, Jordan Murray)
DRU Jérémy Auger, (1) (Jérôme Verrier)
SHA Olivier Jodoin, (1) (Zachary Taylor, Lukas Pozgay)
SHA JC Campagna, (1) (Jonathan Narbonne, Jean-Christophe Houde)
SHA Jonathan Narbonne, (1) (Dylan Labbé, Frédérick Gaudreau)
DRU Olivier Archambault, (3) (Nikolas Brouillard, Jérémie Malouin)
Aaaand with the Volts no longer capable of keeping up the charge they had going in the first, #theshawi wins 4-3, Narbonne with the GWG. News dropped this morning that he has since joined the Moncton Wildcats as part of a trade that was originally thought to alleviate the 20-year old player count on the Memorial Cup champs' roster, at least until it was revealed that Patrick Downe is also 20. So why split up the DJs?
Hang on, this is a Drummondville blog. Moving on...
Scraping out a W in Victo: After that disappointing loss against #theshawi, the Volts decided to take it out on the Tigres. It took until 17:05 of the second period for someone to score, and that someone was Victo's Philippe Hudon. At the tail end of a power play (!) to open the 3rd, Marc-Olivier Brouillard tied the game with help from Olivier Archambault and Jordan Murray. The latter then enlisted the same guys to help him win the game in overtime, the end result of a major penalty on Hudon who had taken out his frustrations on the younger Brouillard behind Drummondville's net and thus permitted a 4 on 3 to begin the overtime period.
Drummondville is now 4-3-0-0 to start the season and take on the winless Sherbrooke Phoenix on Wednesday.
Hrabarenka, so long (for real, now): We knew this already, but it's official now. Raman Hrabarenka/Graborenko/That Guy has moved on to greener pastures in Albany, which officially also opens up a Euro spot...
And then there was Török: Speaking of Sherbrooke, they traded 6'2" right-winger Tomáš Török to the Volts for a sixth round pick in 2014, which alleviates said extra Euro spot and gives the Slovakian a chance to take on his former teammates as soon as tomorrow. The 17 year old recorded 20 points in 9 games with HVK Svolen's Under-18s and four points in 13 games with their Under-20s last season. He had only played in 5 of Sherbrooke's 7 games before being traded, picking up 1 assist.
Howes it going: Scott Howes made a brief appearance at Texas Stars' training camp, and then back to Allen to participate in the Americans' training camp, where it was discovered that not only have they invited his brother Andrew to take part, but also another Andrew...Randazzo. The Ontario bracket of Drummondville seems to be quite aptly represented in the Lone Star State!
Lefebvre with Wheeling: In Bulldogs' camp, the roster that began with 43 players is continuing to thin out, as Hamilton have released one-time Voltigeur Olivier Fortier and sent Philippe Lefebvre down to the ECHL. For their part, Frédéric St-Denis and Gabriel Dumont are expected to be part of the final Bulldogs' roster.
University roundup: The CIS season is already underway, and should you be looking for more local forms of hockey to replace the NHL and can't always get to Drummondville (like me in the last, oh, two years), you can still have an alumni-fix (and take part in some really cool, competitive hockey):
Jean-Philippe Mathieu, Ryan McKiernan, Marc-Olivier Vachon, Jonathan Brunelle, and Benoit Levesque are (at last check) McGill Redmen;
Corey Garland and Olivier Jannard are Concordia Stingers;
Guillaume Nadeau and Olivier Hotte are Patriotes (UQTR);
...and a bunch of teams have yet to play so I cannot appropriately peruse their rosters.
Look, this already happened:
Jonathan Brunelle (Jean-Philippe Mathieu & Marc-Olivier Vachon) !!!
Alumni to return to Drummondville: La Tournée des Joueurs is set to visit Drummondville next Thursday, the 18th of October at 7 p.m. Tickets are going on sale for Volts' season ticket holders this Thursday and Friday from 9-9 before being opened up to the public on Saturday at 10 a.m. The latter sale is also supposedly going to be made available online and by phone, and the tickets (that get snatched up rather quickly) cost $20.
Monday, 1 October 2012
The Abitibi Split (or something that sounds more appetizing)
Wonderful news. It appears Drummondville fixed their power play!
Not at first, though: First they had to lose their home opener to the somewhat surprising (yet irritably so) Huskies, who stormed in from Rouyn-Noranda to score 4 goals to be met with only 2.
That night, the Voltigeurs were not totally shut out with the man-advantage, as both goals were scored on it, but it should be noted that they had a whopping TWELVE opportunities. Rouyn also used special teams for their goals, including a shorty which was the head-desk heard round the 67 train to Toronto where one could find yours truly refreshing the Q app for as long as was legally allowed on the VIA WiFi system.
Sidenote: Apparently I was right to include this Jean-Sébastien Dea character in my All Habs preview. He leads the league with nine goals and four assists in just five games.
On to Val-d'Or: This was a mean one. Olivier Archambault was on the receiving end of a Cédrick Henley hit that resulted in a) a major and misconduct for the latter b) 80% of the game's penalties having to do with both teams not liking each other very much.
It also resulted in power play goals. Guillaume Gauthier got one to tie the game before the end of the first, Archambault showed he was no worse for wear just over a minute later by potting in a goal of his own, Gauthier jumped in again with help from Nikolas Brouillard (who is back from his nasty injury, by the way) and Gabriel Vermette closed it out, again with help from Brouillard and Lukas Balmelli.
Anton Zlobin scored twice for the Foreurs in a losing cause, along with someone called Skyler Spiller, who quite frankly should be added to that Best Hockey Name contest the next time Forecaster or whoever had it last time brings it back up.
Tournée des joueurs: In alum-news, Brasstendresse was reunited last Thursday on Team Montreal as Guillaume Latendresse scored a goal and Derick Brassard probably had at least an assist somewhere (I can't find a boxscore) in a 7-4 win over Team Quebec in the first instalment of La Tournée des Joueurs, the locked-out player initiative featuring a number of NHLers from all over the league. The first game was in Chateauguay and sold out ridiculously fast, so people in St-Hyacinthe and Sherbrooke have probably also snatched up all the available seats for this week's games by now.
I will leave you with this picture as my lunch break comes to an end.
Not at first, though: First they had to lose their home opener to the somewhat surprising (yet irritably so) Huskies, who stormed in from Rouyn-Noranda to score 4 goals to be met with only 2.
That night, the Voltigeurs were not totally shut out with the man-advantage, as both goals were scored on it, but it should be noted that they had a whopping TWELVE opportunities. Rouyn also used special teams for their goals, including a shorty which was the head-desk heard round the 67 train to Toronto where one could find yours truly refreshing the Q app for as long as was legally allowed on the VIA WiFi system.
Sidenote: Apparently I was right to include this Jean-Sébastien Dea character in my All Habs preview. He leads the league with nine goals and four assists in just five games.
On to Val-d'Or: This was a mean one. Olivier Archambault was on the receiving end of a Cédrick Henley hit that resulted in a) a major and misconduct for the latter b) 80% of the game's penalties having to do with both teams not liking each other very much.
It also resulted in power play goals. Guillaume Gauthier got one to tie the game before the end of the first, Archambault showed he was no worse for wear just over a minute later by potting in a goal of his own, Gauthier jumped in again with help from Nikolas Brouillard (who is back from his nasty injury, by the way) and Gabriel Vermette closed it out, again with help from Brouillard and Lukas Balmelli.
Anton Zlobin scored twice for the Foreurs in a losing cause, along with someone called Skyler Spiller, who quite frankly should be added to that Best Hockey Name contest the next time Forecaster or whoever had it last time brings it back up.
Tournée des joueurs: In alum-news, Brasstendresse was reunited last Thursday on Team Montreal as Guillaume Latendresse scored a goal and Derick Brassard probably had at least an assist somewhere (I can't find a boxscore) in a 7-4 win over Team Quebec in the first instalment of La Tournée des Joueurs, the locked-out player initiative featuring a number of NHLers from all over the league. The first game was in Chateauguay and sold out ridiculously fast, so people in St-Hyacinthe and Sherbrooke have probably also snatched up all the available seats for this week's games by now.
I will leave you with this picture as my lunch break comes to an end.
Om nom nom.
Monday, 24 September 2012
W is a favourite letter in the alphabet.
So the Voltigeurs have kicked off opening weekend with two wins, first on Friday with a 4-3 victory against the Memorial Cup-winning Cataractes and then on Sunday as they beat the newest team in the league, the Sherbrooke Phoenix, 2-1.
Things that are cool in light of these wins:
Things that are cool in light of these wins:
- Forever annoying #theshawi when they actually have things to celebrate by beating them.
- Olivier Archambault keeps passing to people and some of these plays turn into goals. Including one of his own.
- Newcomer Lukas Balmelli's first goal in the league proved to be the game-winner against Sherbrooke.
- Dexter Weber got his first point in the league against #theshawi.
- Domenic Graham got a night off AND Louis-Philip Guindon fared rather impressively in his place in what was his first taste of real QMJHL action yesterday afternoon. Fellow rookie Daniel Audette was unable to score his first goal because of him.
- One-goal games. But unlike last year, so far the Volts seem to be on the right side of them.
- Nikolas Brouillard losing teeth and being unable to finish said Sherbrooke game.
- The power play is 0-for-12. Guy Boucher is somewhere launching baseballs at people's heads with a hockey stick because of this.
Monday, 17 September 2012
The Forever Preseason is Finally Over
The biggest and best headline this post has to offer is the one above.
Drummondville's record: 3-3-0-1 in seven gamesspread out over five months. That leads to a scathingly precise .500 record. Meh!
However, in those 7 games, the power play had an efficiency of 30% and 29 goals were scored.
Points leaders:
Bryce Milson (6 goals, 4 assists)
Marc-Olivier Brouillard (3 goals, 7 assists)
Olivier Archambault (one goal, 9 assists)
Jordan Murray (2 goals, 7 assists)
Jérôme Verrier (5 goals, 2 assists)
The first regular-season game is this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in #theshawi against none other than the defending Memorial Cup Champions. The Cataractes have had a surprisingly good preseason, going 5-3-0-0 in their eight matchups (they also scored 29 goals).
What of Hrabarenka?: Apparently it's still a case of the wait-and-see with the Belarussian defenseman, who will report to Albany despite the influx of people previously playing in the NHL having been assigned there this weekend. Should he return to Drummondville, Dominic Ricard gets to be the one to decide what happens next.
Sean, we hardly knew ye: Today's most duh-worthy news goes to the fact that Sean Couturier will not be returning to Drummondville. (The fact that it was even presented as a possibility is quite cruel, to be quite honest.)
Howes, what are you doing?: Former Kelly Cup MVP Scott Howes is the latest addition to the Allen Americans (Central Hockey League). Adam Pineault, Chris Doyle, and Bradley Gallant are among the other former QMJHLers on the Allen roster presented on their web site. But Howes, as a result of that stellar 2010-11 season that saw him become playoff MVP, saw some time in the AHL (!) last season under former coach Brent Thompson, scoring eleven goals and as many assists for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Being that the AHL is currently more than full, heading back to Bridgeport might not have been a feasible plan. But what's wrong with Alaska? :( /rings cowbell in a corner
Zohorna and Svoboda on the same roster again! Sort of: Speaking of influxes of NHLers, the Czech ones are of a particular interest to yours truly (yet another occasion to use the word duh!) and in seeing where some of them were off to, a discovery was made on HC Kometa Brno's roster this morning:
Source: http://www.hc-kometa.cz/soupiska.asp
Hynek indeed appears to be the other Tomáš' little brother. While it's not 100% the reunion I was hoping for, it did bring tears to my eyes.
Drummondville's record: 3-3-0-1 in seven games
However, in those 7 games, the power play had an efficiency of 30% and 29 goals were scored.
Points leaders:
Bryce Milson (6 goals, 4 assists)
Marc-Olivier Brouillard (3 goals, 7 assists)
Olivier Archambault (one goal, 9 assists)
Jordan Murray (2 goals, 7 assists)
Jérôme Verrier (5 goals, 2 assists)
The first regular-season game is this Friday at 7:30 p.m. in #theshawi against none other than the defending Memorial Cup Champions. The Cataractes have had a surprisingly good preseason, going 5-3-0-0 in their eight matchups (they also scored 29 goals).
What of Hrabarenka?: Apparently it's still a case of the wait-and-see with the Belarussian defenseman, who will report to Albany despite the influx of people previously playing in the NHL having been assigned there this weekend. Should he return to Drummondville, Dominic Ricard gets to be the one to decide what happens next.
Sean, we hardly knew ye: Today's most duh-worthy news goes to the fact that Sean Couturier will not be returning to Drummondville. (The fact that it was even presented as a possibility is quite cruel, to be quite honest.)
Howes, what are you doing?: Former Kelly Cup MVP Scott Howes is the latest addition to the Allen Americans (Central Hockey League). Adam Pineault, Chris Doyle, and Bradley Gallant are among the other former QMJHLers on the Allen roster presented on their web site. But Howes, as a result of that stellar 2010-11 season that saw him become playoff MVP, saw some time in the AHL (!) last season under former coach Brent Thompson, scoring eleven goals and as many assists for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers. Being that the AHL is currently more than full, heading back to Bridgeport might not have been a feasible plan. But what's wrong with Alaska? :( /rings cowbell in a corner
Zohorna and Svoboda on the same roster again! Sort of: Speaking of influxes of NHLers, the Czech ones are of a particular interest to yours truly (yet another occasion to use the word duh!) and in seeing where some of them were off to, a discovery was made on HC Kometa Brno's roster this morning:
Source: http://www.hc-kometa.cz/soupiska.asp
Hynek indeed appears to be the other Tomáš' little brother. While it's not 100% the reunion I was hoping for, it did bring tears to my eyes.
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