Blainville-Boisbriand wins in shootout over Quebec

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. —Playing a third game in three nights, Blainville-Boisbriand found a way to go out of Quebec with a 4-3 shootout win. It was the second goal of the game by Remy Anglehart that gave the visitor the additional point in the standing.

“Yes a lot,” answered Blainville-Boisbriand head coach Bruce Richardson when ask if his team showed lots of resiliency. “Especially since last three weeks as it didn’t go well for us. We made some adjustment last week, guys bought it, we came back to our base as team, so over the weekend that was how the Armada should been playing. We showed lots of courage, character in three-on-four, we have had our opportunity also but at the end we look for the goal that made the difference in our favor.”

Blainville-Boisbriand took advantage of a turnover in Quebec defensive zone to open the scoring. Losing the puck Quebec defenseman Christian Huntley saw Armada center Luke Henman beat Quebec goaltender Derek Baribeau between his pads with backhanded shot with only 1:03 gone in first period. The Carolina Hurricane prospect scored his 7th of the year on Blainville-Boisbriand third shot.

Quebec tied the game on their second power play opportunity. Andrew Coxhead made a perfect pass to Philipp Kurashev scoring his 13th of the year with 2:17 remaining in first period.

Going 1-in-3 with a man advantage Quebec took the lead on their fourth power play chance. Making the first save on Quebec forward Brandon Frattaroli Armada netminder Samson can’t do anything on Aleksei Sergeev redirection with 6:44 to play in middle frame.

Blainville-Boisbriand came back tying the game 2-2 on Remi Anglehart fifth goal of the regular season as the first shot taken by teammate Charles-Antoine Guguere bounced back right on Anglehart stick following first save by Baribeau.

Olivier Mathieu gave the lead back to Quebec, 3-2, in the third period but not before referee Jonathan Alarie needed to go to video review to confirm the decision on the ice. Referee had to be sure Quebec forward didn’t had to intentionally push the puck with his glove. Decision’s on the ice has been confirmed. Quebec goal came 7:27 after Armada’s tying goal.

Visitors haven’t said their last words as Armada center Antoine Demers beat Quebec goalie on his right side with 2:35 left to play in the third pushing both teams to overtime.

Beginning the overtime period three-on-three, Quebec was the beneficiary of a power play. Hitting for 50 percent scoring two goals on four power plays in regulation time Quebec has had an excellent chance to pull the trigger to win and putting an end to three games losing streak. Unfortunately for the 11466 fans in the Videotron Center Blainville-Boisbriand successfully killed Quebec power play.

The Armada also got their chance on power play in overtime but wasn’t able to score either. Game went in shootout and Blainville-Boisbriand got the additional points in the standing on Anglehart goal. Joel Tisdale, the Montreal free agent signee, was the other Armada player beating Quebec netminder.

Philipp Kurashev was the only Quebec player to beat Emile Samson.

“I can’t really said what might be the turning point, I think maybe the third goal, we didn’t played intelligent enough with the puck,” answered Quebec goaltender Derek Baribeau near Quebec locker Room. “They came back, shootout could go either sides.”

“For sure, it is frustrating, it was the little details,” said the Minnesota Wild goaltending prospect Baribeau. “On Friday it was a shot I could block one more, today on penalty kill guys played heck of a game, they blocked lots of shots, it was frustrating because it was little error that cost us the goal, we could win the game if we could have been taking cared of little details.”

Coming back in the line-up after missing several games due to neck injury, Quebec defenseman Etienne Verrette agreed with his teammate goaltender. “It was hard to explain, it is something we saw often this year,” Quebec defenseman Etienne Verretette said. “It was just little details that could have make the differences, these are the little details that we have to work on, and we will have to do these little details to get us some wins to go as far as possible.”

“First of all it was tough because we had good paste to begin the game,” Quebec head coach Patrick Roy said. “We missed some execution on their first goal, we gave them bit of momentum. What I liked after forty minutes of play was we almost didn’t give anything, we kept them on perimeter, they didn’t have had any scoring chances, and we have had important moment in the beginning of the third period where they didn’t scored. We played good on our penalty killing, unfortunately they scored on a rebound taking everyone by surprised because they didn’t seem to have anything important on that playing sequence. Maybe a bad change-up on our part. We found a way to come back, they scored to tie the game. Overall I have to say I like the team effort and the performance.”

“What I would like to see is scoring at four-on-three, we have had lots of chances, them too on the other side. In shootout game can go on either side,” Continued Roy.

Quebec will go on the road for their next six games with first stop in Victoriaville facing the Tigres on next Wednesday.