Blainville-Boisbriand leave Quebec with win

Blainville-Boisbriand defenseman Guillaume Beaudoin (77) making pass to tammate photo courtesy of Jonathan L’Heureux of infosportquebec

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. — Winning only once against Quebec in first three tries, Blainville-Boisbriand came in Quebec outworking the home team ending with 4-1 win tying the season series with two wins on each side. Recently acquired by the Armada in last QMJHL trading period former Cape Breton Screaming Eagles Pierre-Luc Dubois made his presence felt ending his night with a goal and two assists. Ivan Mongo (1g-1a), T.J. Melanson (1g-1a) and Joel Tisdale (0g-2a) played significant role in Armada victory.

Back from the National Junior team winning the silver medal in the world Junior Championship, Pierre Luc Dubois coming from behind Quebec net the recent Armada acquisition beat Quebec goalie Evgenny Kiselev on his left side at 6:23.

The visitor took advantage of their first power play opportunity to add a second goals to their lead. With Quebec center Shawn Bily in the box, Armada right winger Alexandre Alain completed a perfect play with Dubois and Joel Teasdale at 11:15.

Dominated 14-2 in the opening period, trailing by two (2-0) Quebec replied with only 32 seconds into the middle frame. A perfect exchange between Dmitry Buynitskiy, Philipp Kurashev ending with a redirection by Mathieu Ayotte.

Quebec netminder played solid second period making several key saves as Alexandre Barre-Boule thought he had beaten Kiselev but Armada center saw Quebec goalie made the save on backhanded shot

Blainville-Boisbriand left winger Ivan Mongo (21) scoring Armada third goal photo courtesy of Jonathan L’Heureux of infosportquebec

Blainville-Boisbriand regained their two-goal lead as Yvan Mongo beat Kiselev with 3:20 remaining in middle frame.

Quebec got another great opportunity served on a silver plateau following a penalty to Armada right defenseman Charlie Roy but the visitor successfully killed the penalty.

Been perfect on power play with 1-in-1 Blainville-Boisbriand opened the third playing for second times with a man up. Like Quebec did in the beginning of second period the Armada adds to their leads taking a three-goal lead scoring their fourth goal only with 32 seconds gone in third period.

The shot from the blue line by defenseman T.J. Melancon beat Quebec goalie Kiselev over his left shoulder. Trailing by three against a team that played very strong defensively is very tough to come from behind, Quebec played great hockey but Armada fourth goals seem to have the kind of affect like back breaker.

Talking with Armada head coach Joel Bouchard he admitted that Quebec has a younger team and sometimes in course of regular season that is the kind of things that happened.

“Quebec was a young team and sometimes things like that happened,” Blainville-Boisbriand head coach Joel Bouchard. “The puck rolled for us tonight, we did good play, great executions. You always have things that you want to get better, I found the got out strong in second periods,” continued Bouchard.

“It is normal with players who moved, new coming in, I’m not worried Philippe (Boucher) (Quebec head coach), will work with his young players. “

Quebec defenseman Andew Pico (42) looking for the puck photo courtesy of Jonathan L’Heureux of infosportquebec

Talking about the performance of his recent acquisition Pierre-Luc Dubois Armada head coach was happy for him. “ It happened twice in a row, he played the right way that is why we made the traded, it wasn’t just the points, you have guys that didn’t have had points on scoring sheets and played very good hockey,” Told Bouchard.

“We create some offense, we have great chemistry between players today but it could chance tomorrow you know how it work.” The head coach Bouchard said.

On the other end Quebec players admitted they didn’t played their best hockey,

“It is a great team on the other side, they moved the puck very fast, like I said they have great players but we have to find a way to compete, you can’t left them too much time, we have to be in their face all the times, we could have done a better job tonight.” Quebec defenseman Benjamin Gagne said after the game.

Another player agreed with his teammate Gagne, Quebec captain Matthew Boucher.

“Whatever the opponent was especially the Armada,” Remparts captain Matthew Boucher said about the first period where Quebec got only two shots on goal. “With a talented team like that you can’t trailed by two goals so soon in the game. We played a great game last times we played them in Blainville-Boisbriand, I think it is a sequenced that prolonged. The Armada is a team that work hard so you can’t trailed. We should have a team that work hard, we didn’t work hard enough tonight, we have to work harder than the other team to win games, to get a chance to win a hockey game. You can’t trailed against a talented team like them, we can’t be outworked.” Ended Matthew Boucher.

“It was a great hockey machine,” answered Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher when he was asked about some of his words in morning skates about the challenge his team would face in the night game.

Quebec goaltender Evgeny Kiselev (1) played very solid game even in his team loss photo courtesy of Jonathan L’Heureux of infosportquebec

“Montembeault is very solid the six defensemen is possibly the one of the best if not the best in the league, we can see the difference a player like Dubois (Pierre-Luc) recently acquired from the Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, lots of great players too like Barre-Boulet (Alex). The game plan is axed usually axed on work, it was hard, we did not begin the first period as we should, and that is what really hurt us. In second period we completed, undisciplined penalty cost us a goal, it really is the first period that hurt us. Admitted Boucher.

Quebec next game will be on the road next Sunday in Rimouski facing arch-rival Oceanic.

Only one other game is on QMJHL schedule on Thursday night

Rimouski 3 vs. Shawinigan 2

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