Roundup time!

Friday:

GOALS	1	2	3	Total
DRUMMONDVILLE	2	3	0	5
RIMOUSKI	3	1	3	7

Drummondville: Malouin (2), Boudens, Verrier (2).
Rimouski: Beauvillier, Gauthier, DeLuca, Loiseau (2), Oke, Légaré.

Guindon made 22 saves. Meanwhile, Graham moved off the bench entirely (still bothered by an injury) and Kevin Darveau took the backup spot.

Yesterday:

GOALS 1 2 3 Total DRUMMONDVILLE 1 0 4 5 VICTORIAVILLE 2 0 0 2

Victoriaville: Diaby, Halley.Drummondville: Brouillard the younger, Malouin, Verrier (2), Boudens. Caouette picked up two assists.

Twenty-seven stops made by Guindon this time.

Let's be honest, I literally missed this entire weekend (I feel like yesterday was Friday). You probably know more about these games than I do.

One thing I do know: PEI tomorrow!

PEI: 13-9-2-0, 28 points, 11th in the league, 97 GF, 88 GA, lost seven of their last ten, and the Ben Duffy/Josh Currie duo takes up two-thirds of the top 3 in league scoring (Grigo butted in the middle). Their netminder, Antoine Bibeau, has a GAA that is fourth-best in the league, 2.68, with a .915 SV%.

Drummondville: 14-12-0-0, 28 points, 9th in the league, 84 GF, 91 GA, are now up to W's in five of their last seven games, Verrier is on a tear with four goals in his last two, and Guindon has an 3.33 GAA and .870 SV%.

Head-to-head: Drummondville won both games against the team that will soon be formerly known as the Rocket, 4-2 over a year ago on November 2nd and 4-3 in overtime, two October 16ths ago. The winning goal at that time was scored by Max Villemaire.

Speaking of which: How is that guy doing, you might ask? One might expect the following stat to stand out: PIM. He has only played 5 games for Gwinnett (currently on reserve) and already has 22 minutes spent in that sin-bin.

Sean Couturier scored two goals this weekend and Charles Landry was finally called up to Syracuse only to be AWOL from the statsheet, probably having to settle for just watching the Crunch (and Ondrej Palat) beat both Mike Hoffman's Senators and Raman Hrabarenka's Devils before going on to thump the Worcester Sharks 6-1. Other notables: the only Bulldogs' goal to be scored yesterday was assisted by Gabriel Dumont, Yannick Riendeau scored and added an assist in a 6-3 Stockton win over Bakersfield, both Ryan McKiernan and Marc-Olivier Vachon (from McKiernan and Jonathan Brunelle, no less) scored in a 3-2 shootout win over Toronto, and Rémi Blanchard scored both goals in a 6-2 losing cause to Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (4 assists) and the UNB Varsity Reds yesterday.

Comings, goings, and Euro-hoggings

Labrie, we hardly knew ye: Cue some more anger from Philippe Venne's supporters in Drummondville, as two games and a +1 is all she wrote for Ryan Labrie in a Voltigeurs' uniform. It was announced yesterday that Labrie left the team for the waiver wire on an apparent "mutual agreement." Should he not be claimed, he's headed for Vaudreuil Dorion in the LHJAAAQ. Most people who read that article are probably already adamant that that eighth-rounder in 2013 better be the next Derick Brassard.

(Venne has yet to score a point with his new team, who has gone 2-11-1-1 this season, so that's a little understandable.)

Murray moves up: Jordan Murray has a new role with the Voltigeurs. The fourth-leading scorer on the team with 11 points thus far this season is changing up from rearguard to forward. Not only that, he's headed to the first line.

Having scored 44 goals and allowed 53 against, you might say that the offensive needs of the Volts are pretty clear. M-O Brouillard, Jérôme Verrier and Olivier Archambault have shouldered most of that load. While Murray will skate with Brouillard and Jérémie Malouin (if the latter is ready to play), he is expected to continue occupying the point on the power play.

First and last comment on the CHLPA thing: So that's where Hockeyinsiderr disappeared to!

Got Euros?: In this season's instalment of Phrase-Recycling 101: So it would appear that (Sorensen, Kucherov, Grigorenko) has an injured (foot, shoulder, _____). No problem! We've got two other Euros. - the Remparts.

Good Lord. If this is the plan for the rest of the season, Brandon Shea probably won't be the only one walking out on you. Just trade someone and be done with it. Signed, Everyone.

Early morning alum-sighting tomorrow: Fans of ex-Volts blessed with a Friday off can catch the McGill Redmen in action as part of the 2nd annual "Stay in School" Morning Game that will see them face off against York University at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow, at McConnell Arena. Three former members of the President's Cup-winning 2009 squad, Vachon, McKiernan and Brunelle, all had a hand in the Redmen's 3-2 overtime win against Queen's last Friday.

So I've missed a lot of things.

First things first, I don't know if you know this, but the Shawinigan Cataractes are this year's Memorial Cup champions.

Good. Just getting that out of the way, it was an extremely pressing subject.

Second, the Sherbrooke Phoenix are the new kids on the block and this week they had their expansion draft. They selected Drummondville's Dominic Talbot-Tassi and Vincent Blanchette, as well as former Voltigeur Alexandre Comtois.

The QMJHL draft was also held this weekend. Without a selection to make until the second round, Joey Ratelle and Jérémy Auger were the first new Drummondville players of the day. Then after waiting three more rounds to speak again, defenseman Mathieu Amyot was selected. Winger Dylan Montcalm, 6'4" defenseman Alex Bilodeau (!), Louis-Philippe Guindon, Xavier Labonté, Gabriel Labbé, Sacha Harmois, Mark Dufour, and Bobby Hall were the Voltigeurs' other selections yesterday.

A few trades were also finalized: Toliver Bergeron of the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada was swapped to Drummondville for a ninth round pick next year, Jérôme Raymond went to Bathurst in exchange for 20 year old Jordan Murray, Jérémie Malouin made his way over from Quebec in exchange for two 2012 draft picks (rounds 2 and 4), and the additional pick sent to the Volts in that deal eventually became Joey Ratelle. Finally, Jonathan Oligny became a Cape Breton Screaming Eagle for a 2013 third rounder.

Other things that happened (or didn't):  André Bouvet-Morrissette had an invite to the Canadiens' combine, but eventually signed a contract with the Nashville organization.

Charles Landry was part of the Kelly Cup winning Florida Everblades team....

...and yesterday Ondrej Palat won the Calder Cup with the Norfolk Admirals. (With Landry technically as part of the roster. Double-champion!)

In the classroom, Ryan McKiernan, Jonathan Brunelle, and even Antoine Tardif were all recognized at the Guy Lafleur Awards of Excellence and Merit last week. McKiernan in particular got 6 A's for his 3.65 GPA ...and suddenly I feel ten times more awful as a student than I ever did.

Ex-Voltspalooza, aka the CIS University Cup

I'm going to omit talking about a certain game that took place last night except to say ouch. Although after tonight's action I suppose I shouldn't be one to complain.

Other games that happened yesterday and earlier today, however, bring up slightly less painful memories, while remaining relevant:


1. McGill Redmen vs. Aigles Bleus de Moncton

• McGill ex-Volts: Ryan McKiernan, Benoit Levesque, Marc-Olivier Vachon
• Moncton ex-Volts: Pierre-Alexandre Marion (and according to today's boxscore, Remi Blanchard.)
• Usual suspects Francis Verreault-Paul and Alex Picard-Hooper did their thing and McGill won 6-3.

2. UNB Varsity Reds vs. UQTR Patriotes

• UNB ex-Volt: Marc-Antoine Desnoyers (thanks in some part to ex-Volt Jake Allen).
  
• UQTR ex-Volts: Olivier Hotte, Alexandre Demers, Olivier Donovan, Guillaume Nadeau. (Also seen earlier in the season: Etienne Bellavance-Martin and Martin Frechette.)
• Not even close for UQTR. 6-1 UNB final.

Moncton beat Saskatchewan today, 5-1. Marion made 20 saves! UQTR wasn't as lucky in their rebound attempt, losing 3-2 in a tight affair with Western University. Nadeau was named their player of the game in a losing cause.

Tomorrow, Saskatchewan takes on the Redmen at 10:30 a.m. EST. Host team UNB meets Western at 3:30 p.m. EST, and if I'm not mistaken, that game will appear on Sportsnet.

Other alum-stuff: Derick Brassard got three assists tonight for Columbus in a 5-1 win, and Mike Hoffman scored in a 4-3 OT win by Binghamton.

Fun/useless fact: Drummondville and Quebec were the only teams in the entire CHL not playing tonight. See you Monday!