Mooseheads complete stunning upset

Drummondville Voltigeurs

The Halifax Mooseheads have done it.

The Mooseheads completed a massive upset of the Drummondville Voltigeurs on Tuesday night, winning Game 7 by a score of 2-0 to advance to the second round of the QMJHL playoffs.

It's a stunning upset by the Mooseheads, who grabbed one of the final playoff spots on the final few days of the regular season. Drummondville finished third overall in the regular season standings and won the Western Conference. They finished with 86 points – 38 more than the Mooseheads.

It's a tough pill to swallow for the Voltigeurs, who opted to hang on to their veteran players from last season's Gilles Courteau Trophy run and hoped to take advantage of a wide open Western Conference. Now their season is over two weeks into the playoffs.

It seemed like the Voltigeurs could never fully recover from losing goaltender Riley Mercer, who was injured in Game 1. The Mooseheads won the first two games of the series and took a 3-2 series lead back to Drummondville on Monday. The Volts posted a commanding 6-0 win in Game 6 only to drop a tight Game 7 just 24 hours later.

Three of Halifax's wins in this series came on the road. 

The star of this series was overage goaltender Jacob Steinman, who made 38 saves in Tuesday's shutout win. He posted a 2.43 goals against average and a .936 save percentage in the series.

The Mooseheads will now play the Western Conference's No. 2 seed – the Rouyn-Noranda Huskies – in the second round.

Here's what the second round will look like.

Eastern Conference

1. Moncton vs 4. Baie-Comeau

2. Rimouski vs 3. Chicoutimi

Western Conference

2. Rouyn-Noranda vs 8. Halifax

3. Shawinigan vs 5. Sherbrooke

All four series begin Friday.