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EAGLES WIN QMJ LEAGUE'S 20,000TH GAME
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BAIE-COMEAU, QC, January 22, 2010 - Felix Bergeron scored twice as the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles celebrated the 20,000th game in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League history with a 6-2 win over the hometown Baie-Comeau Drakkar in one of seven games on tap in the league Friday night and one of four involving the Atlantic Division teams.
All three shooters for Saint John Sea Dogs scored in the shootout as the Dogs edged Quebec 5-4; Benjamin Cassavant scored twice as PEI Rocket nipped Acadie-Bathurst Titan 4-3; and Alex Saulnier had a goal and assist to lead Moncton Wildcats to a 6-2 win over nationally ranked Victoriaville Tigres in the other Atlantic Division games.
After a scoreless first period in which Cape Breton outshot Baie-Comeau 13-6, the teams came out of the second tied at 2-2.
Baie-Comeau provided the book ends for the two Cape Breton goals as the Drakkar scored the first and last goals of the period with the two Screaming Eagles goals coming in between.
Maxim Lamarche and Simon Olsson assisted on Antoine Laperrière’s fourth of the year at the 6:27 mark. Brad Cuzner and Jan Piskacek assisted on Mathieu Brodeur’s third of the year to tie the game 9:23 in.
The Screaming Eagles took a 2-1 lead with 2:49 left in the period when Bergeron got help from Cory MacIntosh and Francis Meilleur in finding the back of the net for the second time this year.
The Drakkar tied the game at 2-2 at the 18:57 mark when Marc-Olivier Mimar and Olsson lent a helping hand on Raphaël Bussières’s second of the year as Baie-Comeau enjoyed the man advantage.
Shots on goal were 16-14 in favour of the Screaming Eagles in the second.
Bergeron scored the game winner 3:38 into the third with Cuzner assisting. At the 7:32 mark Nick MacNeil added the insurance marker unassisted.
Cape Breton scored a power play goal of their own with 8:39 left in regulation as Meilleur and Luke Adam helped Piskacek net his fifth of the year.
Adam closed out the game with a goal of his own—his team leading 27th of the year—with 4:29 left in the game with Viktor Hertzberg and Jacob Lagace helping out.
Cape Breton outshot Baie-Comeau 13-10 in the third and 42-30 overall.
Olivier Roy improved to 21-16-0 with the win; while Nathan Dunnett dropped to 13-17-0 with the loss.
Cape Breton scored on one of their four power play chances; while Baie-Comeau was successful in one of their nine attempts.
Bergeron (2G) was the first star of the game; Bussieres (1G) the second; and Maxim Lamarche (1A) the third.
Cape Breton improves to 28-16-2-3 giving them 61 points and third spot in the Atlantic Division standings.
The two teams will hook up again Saturday night for a 7:00pm EST contest.
—hockeyscene.com correspondent Denise Smith
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010