Opening face-off Maaimo Carozza of Quebec and Alexandre Sills of Rouyn-Noranda photo by Serge Poulin
QUEBEC CITY, P.Q. —Leading by two after forty minutes of play the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies saw their opponent come back to score two goals in the third forcing both teams to play in overtime. The overtime period was only 32 seconds old before the second goal of the game by Jean-Christophe Beaudin made the difference in favor of the visitor winning 6-5 in front of 10,227.
Dominating the first period 15-4 in shots on goal Rouyn-Noranda opened the scoring on their first power play opportunity. A shot by Huskies center Gabriel Fontaine went beside the net, the rebound came right back on Julien Nantel Stick who beat Quebec goalie Callum Booth for first goal of the game at 1:59.
The visitors added a second goal less than nine minutes later. Selected 27th in the European entry draft the leton Martins Dzierkals scores his first in QMJHL. The Toronto Maple Leafs selection 68th overall in 2015 goal came at 5:11.
Quebec’s first goal came also during their first power play opportunity. Back from Toronto training camp Dmytro Timashov on his knees made pass to center Massimo Carozza scoring his 5th of the season at 14:49.
Rouyn-Noranda regained their three-goal lead less than minute later with a one-timer from Jean-Christophe Beaudin beating Quebec netminder to his right side at 15:47.
Rouyn-Noranda goaltender Samuel Harvey face Quebec photo by Serge Poulin
A two-on-one breakaway led to Rouyn-Noranda fourth goal. Patient the Huskies left winger beat Quebec goalie high on Booth glove side at 3:44.
Quebec cut visitor lead to two goals on a two-on-one breakaway. Dmytro Timashov with teammates Matthew Boucher went on breakaway with Timashov wrist shot beating Huskies netminder Harvey on right side with 1:52 remaining to middle frame.
Trailing by two after forty minutes of play Quebec defenseman Ross MacDougall cut Huskies lead to only one goal as MacDougall’s long wrist shot beats Huskies goalies to his right with 10:35 to play.
Rouyn-Noranda regained their two-goal lead less the seven minutes later on first goal of the season by Philippe Myers at 16:01.
Quebec came back with the next two goals in 2:02 to tie the game 5-5 forcing to play a three-on-three overtime. Goals by defenseman Raphael Maheux at 17:57 and European right winger Auguste Impose 19:59 brought both teams back to square one. For Impose, it was his first goal scored in five game.
Back from Colorado Avalanche Raphael Maheux played his first game with Quebec photo by Serge Poulin
“We lose so it spoiled the pleasure but it was true that I missed it we needed it was an important goal but unfortunately it didn’t serve anything,” the right winger Auguste Impose said after the game about his first goal in the QMJHL.
“Losing like that it hurt a lot, we worked real hard, we gave everything to come back in the game but losing in overtime it hurt in our heart. But what would you like me to say tonight we lose and we will try to do better in our next game. I just hope we will be better on our consistency tonight it good by moment bad in other we will have to work on little things to make sure we play better next time.”
Dmytro Timashov agreed with his teammates about the way his team played against Rouyn-Noranda, “I think we played ok but we can play better,” said the right winger who played his first game with Quebec after been cut by Toronto Maples Leafs.
“They scored couple easy goals but we can play much better, we should win this game.” Timashov said about the game.
For head coach Philippe Boucher, he was the first to recognize his team had been outplayed for half the game but his team refused to die in third period. “The game was tough for us from the start. Beside the third period where we played better in overtime in three against three we gave up the game.” Quebec head coach Philippe Boucher said.
Back from Carolina Huricaine Quebec goaltender Callum Booth plays his first game with Quebec Remparts photo by Serge Poulin
“The positive is we never let it go, or we wake-up in third and never let it go. We have a lots of things to work. To be able to get a point against one of the very good team in the league, we will take it they all counts at the end of the year but we will have to realize that we have lot of things to work.”
Playing three against three in overtime gave lots of space to players. After only 32 seconds of play in overtime Jean-Christophe Beaudin scores a second goals giving his team the victory by the score of 6-5.
Next Quebec game will be Sunday as the Baie-Comeau Drakar will be the visitor.
No other game was on QMJHL schedule on Thursday
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