Music: {allcanada} QMJHL: OCEANIC EDGED JUNIORS TO END NINE-GAME STREAK

Friday, February 25, 2011

{allcanada} QMJHL: OCEANIC EDGED JUNIORS TO END NINE-GAME STREAK

Jarrad Struthers and the Rimouski Oceanic brought an end to one of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's longest streaks Friday night.

Struthers scored the winning goal 5:53 into the third period as the Oceanic edged the Montreal Juniors 3-2.

The loss ends Montreal's nine-game points streak. In that span the Juniors had eight wins and a 3-2 shootout loss to the Shawinigan Cataractes on Feb. 11.

That run put Montreal into second in the QMJHL and secured the Juniors a playoff berth.

Montreal's streak had been the second-longest active run in the QMJHL, well behind the first-place Saint John Sea Dogs' 22-game point run.

Rimouski has won four of its last 10 games, but has secured one of the league's final post-season seeds.

Elsewhere in the QMJHL it was: Saint John 4 Gatineau 3; P.E.I. 5 Cape Breton 1; Victoriaville 5 Quebec 4 (SO); Drummondville 4 Lewiston 2; Acadie-Bathurst 3 Rouyn-Noranda 2 and Moncton 6 Val-d'Or 4.

At Verdun, Que., Alexandre Mallet and Jerome Gauthier-Leduc also scored as Rimouski (28-29-3) had three unanswered goals.

Louis Leblanc and Philippe Fontaine scored for Montreal (42-10-8).

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Sea Dogs 4 Olympiques 3

At Gatineau, Que., Stanislav Galiev's goal 4:36 into the third period stood as the winner as Saint John held off the Olympiques.

Michael Kirkpatrick, Zack Phillips and Nathan Beaulieu also scored as the Sea Dogs (50-5-3) jumped out to a 4-1 lead five minutes into the third period.

Mitchell Porowski and Hubert Labrie replied in the final 15 minutes of play to bring Gatineau (34-17-8) within a point. Jacob Conrad scored in the second period.

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Rocket 5 Screaming Eagles 1

At Sydney, N.S., Ben Duffy had a pair of goals and added an assist as P.E.I. downed Cape Breton.

Duffy and Jean-Sebastien Fournier both scored on the power play for the Rocket (27-24-8), while Olivier Croteau and Alex Noel had goals as well.

Dany Potvin had the lone goal for the Screaming Eagles (16-39-5).

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Tigres 5 Remparts 4 (SO)

At Quebec City, Samuel Groulx scored in the shootout as Victoriaville slipped by the Remparts.

Yannick Dube had a goal and set up two others for the Tigres (32-24-4), while Yanni Gourde, Brandon Hynes and Guillaume Naud also scored in regulation time.

Jonathan Audy-Marchessault's 34th goal of the season forced overtime for Quebec (40-15-4). Joe Dube, Mikael Tam and Alexandre Grenier chipped in as well.

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Voltigeurs 4 Maineiacs 2

At Drummondville, Que., Ondrej Palat and top prospect Sean Couturier both scored on the power play as the Voltigeurs dropped Lewiston.

Nicolas Dionne and Marc-Olivier Brouillard rounded out the attack for Drummondville (39-14-7).

Matthew Bissonnette and Samuel Henley supplied the offence for the Maineiacs (36-22-2).

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Titan 3 Huskies 2

At Rouyn-Noranda, Que., Gabriel Levesque and Zach O'Brien both had a goal and an assist as Acadie-Bathurst prevailed over the Huskies.

David Gilbert scored in the first 30 seconds of the game as the Titan (39-20-2) raced out to a 3-0 lead by the 6:25 mark of the third period.

Janos Hari and Vincent Bernier responded for Rouyn-Noranda (9-45-5).

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Wildcats 6 Foreurs 4

At Val-d'Or, Que., Marek Hrivik had back-to-back goals as Moncton defeated the Foreurs.

Olivier Daoust and Daniel Pettersson also scored in the first period for the Wildcats (30-22-7). Brothers Allain and Alex Saulnier tallied late in the third period.

Alex Filiatrault, Guillaume Gelinas, Jonathan Hazen and Marc-Alain Begin did the scoring for Val-d'Or (22-30-7).