Quebec ends home stint on victorious note

Drummondville center Christopher Lalancette got 25 points in 35 games photo by Serge Poulin

QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. — The Quebec Remparts looked for a way to end a four-game home stretch the best way. Coming to town were the Drummondville Voltigeurs and two former teammates in Maxime Chevalier and Adam Chapman. After trailing by one after forty minutes showing a 3-10 record Philippe Boucher’s team plays much better to turn what appeared to be a loss into a 5-3 win with three third period goals. Adam Erne, with two goals in third, was the important contribution to the final result.

Quebec scored the only goal of the initial period. Quebec left winger Guillaume Gauthier put the rebound over Drummondville Anthony Dumont-Bouchard left shoulder with only one seconds remaining to Voltigeurs defenseman Sergei Boikov.

As they are accustomed to seeing the opponent doing lately Quebec watched as the Voltigeurs came back to take the lead. After seeing Quebec scoring the lone goal in the first period Drummondville dominate the middle frame with two goals in 2:36 to take the lead for the first time in the game.

Drummondville left winger and former Quebec Remparts AdamChapman traded ealier this year photo by Serge Poulin

With Quebec goaltender trying to control the puck behind his net Philippe Pelletier-Leblanc stole the puck to Quebec goaltender coming from behind the net to put the puck in an almost empty net since Fucale wasn’t able to come back in time at 6:05.

Drummondville came back 2:36 later with Alex Barre-Boulet scoring his 18^th of the season with 11:19 remaining. Quebec defenseman Matt Murphy and Nikolas Brouillard became confused in the defensive zone.

Playing shorthanded Quebec winger Marcus Cuomo put pressure in the offensive zone picking the lose the puck to beat young 17-year old Dumont-Bouchard top corner at 12:38 as Quebec left winger Yanick Turcotte was in penalty box.

Drummondville regained the lead before both teams returned to their respective locker room. Barre-Labbe scores his second of the game a second goal in second period to give the visitor a 3-2 lead.

Showing a record of only three wins against ten loses when they lose after forty minutes of play Quebec turns thing around in third period scoring three times to end their four games stint at home with a wins.

Adam Erne with his thirty-first and thirty-second of the year scores Remparts third (0:29) seconds into the third and Quebec fifth goals in the game at 6:19. Vladimir Tkachev in one of the most electrifying piece of play scored Quebec fourth goals at 3:10.

Drummondville young goaltender Anthony Dumont-Bouchard photo by Serge Poulin

After the game Drummondville head coach Martin Raymond was happy about his team effort in five against five. Maybe too many games in a row might be an explanations of his team result but he didn’t want to use it as an excused.

“We battle real hard it was our eight games in seventeen days with a young team, I like the way we fought, I didn’t like the way we loses our battles in one-on-one in third period. But this times it is our difficulties on the road.” Said the Voltigeurs head coach Martin Raymond.

“We have hard times to be consistent, we didn’t have the match-up we wanted so it came harder and there is moment in the game where we lose our fights our coverages and we were scored on. We don’t have a team that scores lots of goals we know it. We don’t have our power play it was very inconsistence. Yesterday we scored two goals today zero so our marge of error is very thin.”

At the end of the game, a disgraceful incident happened and players denunciated it after the game; notably Adam Erne.

“I don’t know he told different guys, we are best buddies outside the ice but it was pretty coward to jump on me,” said the author of two goals helping his team to seal victory against Drummondville as he talk about his former teammate Adam Chapman.

Talking about another hit he (Erne) did on Mathieu Sevigny, he said, “It was a pretty good hit I see they could be frustrated about what happened over the weekend but it wasn’t a good reason to jump on me referring to the jump he was victim of from his former teammates. You know stuff happens.”

For his part Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher preferred to talk about positive things that happens in the game instead of what happened at the end.

Quebec defenseman Ryan Graves plays good hockey for Head coach Philippe Boucher’s team photo by Serge Poulin

“We will try to keep the positive we will remember our great week. We have won hockey games maybe not the way we would like to. We have to give credit to Drummondville team they always were tough against us all year and it wasn’t different today.” The Quebec head coach said about his opponent.

“We have everything in a hockey game, we have things I will talk about other I won’t to. I’m satisfied about the week the way guys answered in third period. The consistency is a challenge for all junior team. So if we want to be a good hockey team and have success we will have to challenge us on that side.”

Quebec next game will be this Thursday in Victoriaville. They will also play on Friday visiting the Gatineau Olympiques.

Four other games were on QMJHL schedule on Sunday

Moncton 1 vs. Saint John 3

Victoriaville 3 vs. Blainville-Boisbriand 5

Baie-Comeau 5 vs. Chicoutimi 6

Charlottetown 3 vs. Rouyn-Noranda 4

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