After losing their first game of the year, the Drakkar pulled off a 3-1 victory over the Shawinigan Cataractes on September 12.
They haven’t won since.
Baie-Comeau has now lost an unreal 21 straight games. They are the owners of a 1-17-2-3 record which places them last in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League standings and seven points out of a tie for the last playoff spot.
The Drakkar return to the ice this Saturday in Lewiston where they could lose their 22nd second straight game – the same amount of games the Saint John Sea Dogs won consecutively last season. Just imagine going two months without winning a game.
On Saint John’s 22-game streak of pure awesomeness, the Drakkar gave the Sea Dogs not one, but two scares.
The first was on October 30, 2009 when Michael Kirkpatrick’s miracle goal off a faceoff with 3.6 seconds left at the Henry Leonard Centre tied the match. Kirkpatrick would then win the game in a shootout to give Saint John an unlikely 3-2 victory.
Move ahead a couple weeks to November 12, 2009, which is one year ago today (and the only reason this post makes any sense at all with regards to Flashback Friday), former Sea Dogs goaltending prospect Simon Giroux put on one of the sickest goaltending performances of the year.
Giroux, who was acquired by Saint John from the Drummondville Voltigeurs during the 2009 holiday trading period, allowed just three goals on 54 shots in the loss. His Drakkar team would fire just 19 shots – six of them being considered dangerous – on Sea Dogs netminder Karel St. Laurent.
Giroux’s performance saw him plastered in the Telegraph-Journal the next day sitting next to a trash can (which can be seen above).
Pierre Durepos scored his first career goal in the second period which would prove to be the winner as Saint John went on to win their 12th straight match 4-2. The crowd of 2,671 was, and still is, one of the lowest in franchise history.
Baie-Comeau would finish the 2009-10 season with a 21-40-4-3 record.
But despite all this, Sarah Connors spotted a Drakkar fan who was brave enough to wear his teams jersey to the Boston Bruins game last night.
Photo Credits: Telegraph-Journal, Sarah Connors
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