Nikita Kucherov picked a great night to burn his former
team.
The Tampa Bay Lightning prospect had three goals and
three assists as his Rouyn-Noranda Huskies ended the Quebec Remparts’ season with a
6-1, Game 5 victory on Friday night. The Huskies win the quarater-final playoff
series 4-1, advancing to the semi-finals for the first time since 2008.
Jean-Sebastien Dea added two goals for the Huskies while
Mathieu Brisebois also scored. Alexandre Belanger only had to make 14 saves for
the win.
Quebec, who finished the regular season with the fifth
best record in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League at 42-21-3-2, lost the
first game of this series 6-1 on home ice and never seemed to recover.
Remparts forward Mikhail Grigorenko, who spent most of
the second half playing with the Buffalo Sabres, only had two goals in this
five game series. Quebec’s import situation this season was bizarre to say the
least.
It’s the second straight year the Remparts have been
eliminated in the second-round. In the Patrick Roy era (2005-06 to present) the
club has made it to the semi-finals three times and the league final just once.
Rouyn-Noranda, who finished eighth overall in the QMJHL
with a 40-24-1-3 record, will play the top-ranked Halifax Mooseheads in the
semis. That series is expected to start on Saturday at the Metro Centre.
The other semi-final will feature the Baie-Comeau Drakkar
and the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.
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