RECAP BY: Ethan Hunt
(Halifax, NS) - The UdeM Aigles Bleus beat the Dalhousie Tigers 7-4 on Friday night at the Halifax Forum in Nova Scotia.
Michael Cyr (Sainte-Anne, NB) scored a hat-trick and added an assist to take home player of the game in the win.
After Robbie Forbes (Oakville, ON) was forced to make a glove save on William Basque (Tracadie, NB) at the side of his net, the Tigers after the ensuing face-off went the other way where Evan MacKinnon threw the puck to the net, took a bounce off of Derek Gentile (Sydney, NS) and the defenceman and landed on Barret Kirwin's stick who tapped in the first goal of the game.
It took just under seven minutes for UdeM to answer.
Started when Jeremy Lapointe (Drummondville, QC) outraced the defenceman to a puck that took a bounce off the boards and set him up for a slot shot that Forbes deflected, but later in the shift Cyr found Lapointe in front of net who hammered the buck five hole past Forbes.
The Aigles Bleus almost found the back of the net again when Jérémy Michel (Lévis, QC) snapped his shot off of the cross bar from the left faceoff dot, and Edouard St-Laurent (Lévis, QC) had another chance to take the lead on a wrap around, but Forbes stretched from one post to another to keep it out.
It was Dalhousie who took a 2-1 lead when Kirwin and MacKinnon went on the counterattack and MacKinnon managed to get enough stick on the puck to deflect Kirwin's shot into the back of the net.
After the goal, DAL headed into the break with a 2-1 lead.
Oliver-Luc Haché (Savoie Landing, NB) and Yannic Bastarache (Baie de Bouctouche, NB) saved the game for UdeM when they kept Alec Belanger's (Quebec, QC) shot from crossing the goal line in a mad scramble after Belanger undressed their goaltender.
After Moncton's Defenceman Yann-Félix Lapointe (Granby, QC) managed to bat the puck down at his blue line, he found Rémy Anglehart (Gascon, QC) who whipped it to Cyr in front for a tap in goal.
Cyr scored his second goal and third point of the night when he went one on one with Forbes and put it through his five hole for a 3-2 lead, which the Aigles Bleus held into the third period.
After a minute on the powerplay, DAL went on a five on three, but it was Cyr who scored again when he and J. Lapointe went on a two man breakaway, and Cyr snuck the puck past Forbes pad for the hat-trick.
The teams caught the scoring bug, first when Samuel Guilbault (Varennes, QC) scored a goal off of a two man goal between him and Michel, but Gentile immediately answered back with a goal of his own. St-Laurent from behind the net found Charles Edouard Drouin (St-Georges-de-Beauce, QC) in front for another goal, then Jacob Dion found William Basque to end the frenzy. That goal made it four goals in only a minute and half.
Jarret Baker (Black Rock, NS) snuck his shot short side past the Aigles Bleus goalie to end the scoring for the game, and conclude with a 7-4 UdeM win.
Dalhousie will return to the ice the tomorrow when they welcome UNB to the forum and Moncton will travel to STFX on Saturday.