Music: {allcanada} QMJHL: GATINEAU OLYMPIQUES STUN DRUMMONDVILLE VOLTIGEURS

Friday, October 1, 2010

{allcanada} QMJHL: GATINEAU OLYMPIQUES STUN DRUMMONDVILLE VOLTIGEURS

The Shawshank Redemption Commemorative Giclee

It was an unlikely victory for the Gatineau Olympiques on Friday night.

Maxime Clermont made 23 saves to stun the Drummondville Voltigeurs and lead Gatineau to a 3-0 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action.

It was Drummondville's first loss of the season. Earlier this week the Voltigeurs had been named the Canadian Hockey League's top-ranked team after their solid 7-0 start.

That all changed when Drummondville faced Clermont's Olympiques. The 18-year-old from Montreal earned his first QMJHL shutout in the second start of his junior career.

Even with the win, Gatineau remains in last place in the West Division and has the fourth-worst record in the league with five points.

The Voltigeurs remain at the top of the QMJHL standings with 14 points, although the Quebec Remparts have now pulled within one.

Elsewhere in the QMJHL it was Quebec 8 Cape Breton 2, Saint John 4 Halifax 3 (SO), P.E.I. 4 Baie-Comeau 2, Montreal 3 Chicoutimi 1, Rimouski 4 Acadie-Bathurst 3 and Lewiston 8 Rouyn-Noranda 0.

At Drummondville, Que., Yoan Pinette, Tommy Tremblay and Jean-Gabriel Pageau supplied the offence for Gatineau (2-4-1).

Guillaume Nadeau stopped 21 shots for Drummondville (7-1-0).

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Remparts 8 Screaming Eagles 2

At Sydney, N.S., Tomas Filippi scored back-to-back power-play goals and added two assists as Quebec trounced Cape Breton.

Mikael Tam scored and added an assist for the Remparts (6-0-1), while Martin Lefebvre, Olivier Hinse, Ryan Bourque, Vincent Barnard and Mathieu Lavallee chipped in as well.

Logan Shaw provided all the offence for the Screaming Eagles (2-6-0).

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Rocket 4 Drakkar 2

At Charlottetown, captain Travis McIsaac scored the eventual winner as P.E.I. sunk Baie-Comeau.

Marc-Andre Levesque and Andrej Nestrasil had a goal each for the Rocket (4-4-0), while Jonathan Bonneau added some insurance with an empty-net goal.

Raphael Bussieres and Felix Girard replied for the Drakkar (1-6-0).

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Junior 3 Sagueneens 1

At Verdun, Que., Montreal jumped ahead of Chicoutimi and never looked back.

Louis-Marc Aubry, Jean-Christophe Laflamme and Nicolas Chouinard staked Montreal (4-1-2) to its early lead.

Rock Regimbald answered for the Sagueneens (4-2-1) with five minutes left to play.

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Sea Dogs 4 Mooseheads 3 (SO)

At Halifax, Jonathan Huberdeau and Tomas Jurco were the shootout heroes as Saint John edged the Mooseheads.

Huberdeau tied the game in regulation for Saint John (5-1-1), while Stephen MacAulay and Steven Anthony also tallied.

Carl Gelinas scored twice for the Mooseheads (2-6-1) and Martin Frk also found the back of the net. Frk also scored in the shootout, but it wasn't enough for Halifax.

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Oceanic 4 Titan 3

At Rimouski, Que., Casey Babineau's third-period goal stood as the winner as the Oceanic slipped by Acadie-Bathurst.

Petr Straka, Patrick Delisle-Houde and Jarrad Struthers rounded out the attack for Rimouski (5-3-0).

Gabriel Levesque scored twice and added an assist for the Titan (5-3-0), while Sebastien Trudeau also tallied.

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Maineiacs 8 Huskies 0

At Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Andrey Makarov earned the shutout as Lewiston blanked the Huskies.

Etienne Brodeur scored twice for the Maineiacs (3-3-2), while Dillon Fournier, Stefan Fournier, Pierre-Olivier Morin, Francis Beauvillier, Cameron Critchlow and Antoine Houde-Caron chipped in as well.

Jeffrey Noonan and Mickael Audette split time in net for Rouyn-Noranda (3-5-0).