Cape Breton wins in Quebec

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. —Coming to Quebec playing their only game in Quebec, Cape Breton came here taking control of the game as the game went on. After trailing 1-0 the visitor dominated physically and scored six unanswered goals winning 6-1 over Quebec. Phelix Martineau with three points was the best offensive players for the Screaming Eagles.

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Quebec drew first blood in the game with Gregor MacLoad ninth of the season. Taking a shot from the blue line Quebec defenseman Etienne Vermette saw his teammate center Gregor MacLoad redirecting his shot beating Screaming Eagles goaltender Kyle Jessiman with 14:55 to play in first period.

Cape Breton tied the game with 9:10 remaining in the opening period. Getting a perfect pass from Declan Smith, Ryan Francis beat Quebec goaltender Antoine Francis high on right aide.

Cape Breton took the lead for first time in the game as the shot from Phelix Martineau hit the back of Quebec goaltender Antoine Samuel before going in 9:24 into second period.

Cape Breton added to their lead with 12.7 seconds remaining to play in the middle frame. Making a save on first shot from the blue line by Phelix Martineau the puck went right to Gabriel Proulx stick as his one-timer shot left no chance on Quebec netminder.

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Playing solid hockey in first forty minutes, the visitors continued their physical play as they adds three more goals in the third period. Jordan Ty Fournier scored his 12th of the year taking a loose puck near goalie crease roofing it to beat Quebec goalie 4:29 into the third period.

Already scoring Screaming Eagles second goal Phelix Martineau came back in third scoring his seconds as the puck slowly went in at 9:20. But as the action continued referee needed to go on video to review the goal before confirming it.

Last goal came at18:30 as Egor Sokolov scored his 12th of the year.

For one Cape Breton head coach Marc-Andre Dumont was happy about his team work after the game underlining his player’s efforts.

“We have had great start but, what I like was we built our game as the game went on. It never easy we made 12 hours of bus yesterday we arrived at 21:00 at the hotel but our leaders did good works talking to the young guys, young guys learn a lot too. Our mandate is to develop these players.”

“We are a team that play aggressive hockey, we pursued the puck, the pressure are under the guy who got the puck, we have player who has speed like Phelix Martineau, Brooklyn Kalmikov, and Declan Smith. We use that speed. Kyle (Jessiman) was solid tonight even more in second, he saw the puck, he has plenty confidence.”

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On Quebec side Quebec goaltender took the blame for the loss allowing six goals on 32 shots. “No, we have big weekend ahead of us, tonight was an important game, we were very disappointed of our performance, on personal level it wasn’t the kind of performance I would like to have. I will return home tonight and prepare myself for tomorrow game. For sure when you allowed six goals on 32 shots it wasn’t a great performance, the game was tied the score was one-one, I gave an ordinary goal and it hurt the team.” Quebec goaltender Antoine Samuel said.

“Surely, we know team arrived here and they are ready and when they came once a year it’s been a long time they prepare for that one.” Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher. “They worked harder than us that was the result that given. In that league you can’t go just at 75 percent of effort and hope to win games, that was what we did tonight.” Continued Boucher.

Quebec will go on the road for next game traveling to Victoriaville facing the Tigres.

Four other games were on QMJHL schedule on Thursday night

Charlottetown 3 vs. Halifax 6

Val-d’Or 5 vs. Shawinigan 6 (overtime)

Saint John 2 vs. Victoriaville 5

Acadie-Bathurst 4 vs. Chicoutimi 1

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