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They finished fourth overall during the regular season, drawing the 12th-place Bathurst Titan in the first round. But the Titan were the better team in every area in the best-of-seven, sending the Mooseheads packing in a humbling sweep.Now that a few days have passed and the shock has softened, it's worth looking back to try to figure out what went wrong.If there was one glaring theme in the series it was the Mooseheads' inability to cope with the Titan's outstanding team defence.
Halifax Mooseheads forward Mathieu Cataford gets rubbed out by Bathurst Titan defenceman Igor Mburanumwe during QMJHL action in Halifax on March 29. - Tim Krochak "Dumais is a game-changer and then losing Furlong - your captain - those are two players that were on the world junior team so that really hurts and it affects the psyche of the other players a bit. But at the end of the day, we still felt that we had enough skill and enough good players that we probably should've done more. This is why we're disappointed in the result.
Halifax didn't score a single goal with the man advantage, which head coach Jim Midgley points to as the biggest factor in the series loss. To be fair to those three, they are all quality players who performed well during the regular season in Halifax. They didn't generate enough in the playoffs but that doesn't make them unique within the team's overall poor showing on the attack.
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