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SYDNEY, N.S. – For a team that struggled to score goals in the first half of the season, offence hasn’t been a problem to begin the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League playoffs for the Cape Breton Eagles.
Rimouski Océanic confident in goaltending situation despite starter ‘doubtful’ for series with Cape Breton Cape Breton responded just over two minutes later with Squires’ shot from the slot beating Lacelle at 9:49. The Eagles continued to press with Newcombe notching his first goal of the playoffs at 14:22 of the frame. Romeo slid home his first of the playoffs to make the score 3-1 late in the period.“We stuck with it,” said Robitaille. “It’s just the character. We know how to play the game and we know what our strength is, and we need to focus on that.
Cape Breton continued the offence with a goal by Daigle at 6:27 and a power play marker by Houde at 7:30 of the final stanza put the Eagles up 7-2. Hujer added a goal with less than five minutes to play to round out the scoring for the visitors. “We were feeling pretty good about ourselves after 40 minutes. Obviously, the fourth goal at the end of their power play, I didn’t like it, I didn’t like our effort to box them out,” he said.
“I think we have to be quicker recovering pucks, that’s for sure, and play to our identity,” said Perrault. “We were a team that could play fast and right now we got slowed down by the way they play.”“It’s important because you can’t always have the same guy every single night producing,” said Robitaille. “The Newcombe line did a good job. You look at the third line and the fourth line, they felt comfortable out there and they played to our identity.
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