Oceanic dominate Quebec, 9-3

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. —Led by Francis Beauviller and Peter Trainor with two goals each the Rimouski Oceanic dominated Quebec 9-3.
After seeing Quebec taking the lead 1-0 on Gabriel Desjardins goal with only 3:03 gone in the opening period, Rimouski scored next 8 goals in the game, 5 in the first period.

The 12,240 fans didn’t have time to end the celebration of their favorite first goal that Rimouski tied the game 26 seconds later with Dale Deon 8^th of the regular seasons Jakub Culek and Scott Oke got the helpers. Francis Beauviller with the first of his two in the game (10:53), Peter Trainor also with his first of two (11:35), Scott Oke (13:11 and Petr Straka with 32 seconds remaining to the first period gave the Oceanic a 5-1 lead.
After allowing 3 goals on first Oceanic 6 shots in 11:35 of play Quebec head coach Patrick Roy pulled his starting goaltender Louis Domingue sending Francois Brassard who ended the game giving 6 goals on 25 shots in 48:25 of play.
“It was a great surprise for us,” Rimouski head coach Serge Beausoleil said after the game. “I like our speed tonight, the way we drove to the net weworked a lot on that lately and it worked for us in the last two games, scoring 17 goals. It really was a great performance of our team tonight, I’m little bit wordless.”
Answering another question on Beauvillier (2 goals) after playing in the prospects games on Wednesday in Kelowna, the Oceanic head coach said, “He didn’t seem too tired tonight, I offered him to take the night off and he told me if I traveled six hour to play in prospect game, I can play another game after coming back.”
The visitors didn’t stop working adding two goals in the second with Beauviller’s second of the night with 2:16 gone in the period followed by 22^nd of the year by Alexandre Mallet at 13:07.
Rimouski’s domination continued in third scoring two more with   Alexandre Tanguay (6:39) and Trainor his second of the night (12:12). Shutout of the scoring sheet since 3:03 of the first period, Quebec added two goals both scored by Jeremie Malouin, the first one at (16:34) and the second one with a man advantage with only 18 seconds left to the game.
“We didn’t play our best game, our best players weren’t very good. Whether I would, I won’t began to give some shit to Grigorenko it wasn’t an easy situation (also took part of prospect game last Wednesday in Kelowna, still playing with foot injury since World Junior Championship) they (Rimouski) already have scored 7 goals and he was minus 6. It was a team loses, it was a game to forget, and we have to regroup for tomorrow game.” Quebec head coach Roy said.
“I’m anxious to see how the team will react to this kind of game. Anthony Duclair didn’t practice and stepping on the ice he really look like someone who didn’t practice the whole week. Frederick (Roy), Grigo (Mikhail Grigorenko, and when your best two defensemen (Mikael Tam and Martin Lefebvre) did not play up to their capabilities that’s what you got. They ended the game minus 4 and 3. You didn’t have to look everywhere the stats were there, we did not take good decisions, very bad performance.” Quebec head coach Roy resumed about his team overall performance on Friday night.
Quebec will end his weekend visiting Blainville-Boisbriand playing against the Armada on Saturday.
Elsewhere in the QMJHL: The QMJHL announced the winner of the Telus three stars for the month of January. The first honor went to Blainville-Boisbriand defenseman Xavier Ouellet. The Terbonne Quebec native earned the first stars totaling 16 points scoring 4 goals adding 12 assists ending the month with a plus/minus of +8.
Collecting at least 19 of his 21 points on the road registering 2 points in 7 consecutive games, with three of his goals being the game winning goal the second stars honor went to Guillaume Asselin. The Sagueneens right winger was also the one who scores the most goals in January month with 12 equaling Zach O’Brien. The Quebec native ended the month with a plus/minus record of +7.
Registering the best goal against average in the league in January at 1.71 with the second best save percentage (0.934) behind Roman Will (0.936) the Shawinigan goaltender Gabriel Girard won 7 of his last 8 games. On last January 25^th the Cataractes netminder shutout one of the best offensive team, the Tigres stopping 22 shots. Posting a record of 7-0-0-1 Girard help his team picked up 15 out of 16 available points in January. Being undefeated in his last 14 games, his streak dated back to last November 25^th.
Seven other games were on QMJHL schedule on Friday
Moncton 3 vs. Halifax 5
Cape Breton 2 vs. Prince Edward Island 4
Saint John 3 vs. Drummondville 2
Victoriaville 6 vs. Baie-Comeau 1
Gatineau 4 vs. Blainville-Boisbriand 5
Rouyn-Noranda 1 vs. Chicoutimi 5
Val-d’Or 1 vs. Shawinigan 8
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