QMJHL Moncton Wildcats

Saturday Night's Match Decided in Shootout - Titan Come Away with 8-7 Win

Published on March 23, 2021 under Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League (QMJHL)
Moncton Wildcats News Release


Moncton Wildcats goaltender Vincent Filion
Moncton Wildcats goaltender Vincent Filion
(Moncton Wildcats)

Gabriel Bernier scored twice for the Wildcats in a wild 8-7 shootout loss to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, Saturday at Avenir Centre.

Jacob Hudson contributed a goal and two assists while Mathis Cloutier and Charles-Antoine Pilote added a goal and an assist each. Connor Richard and Yoan Loshing also scored.

Moncton has earned points in three consecutive games.

Acadie-Bathurst opened the scoring midway through the first period before Richard tied the game four minutes later on a power play. It was 1-1 after twenty minutes.

The Titan sandwiched an even strength goal between a pair of poewr play strikes in the opening eight minutes of the second to take a 4-1 lead.

Hudson cut Moncton's deficit to two with a shorthanded goal with eight minutes left in the second.

Two minutes later, the Wildcats' captain turned a clean faceoff win in the offensive zone into a goal for Loshing..

The visitors took a 5-3 lead with under three minutes left in the frame, but Cloutier got Moncton back to within one again less than a minute after that.

Acadie-Bathurst led 5-4 through two periods.

The Titan netted another power play goal five minutes into the third.

Bernier's first of the night came two-and-a-half minutes later to make it a 6-5 game.

He scored again four minutes later - after an Acadie-Bathurst goal - to cut the Titan lead to 7-6.

Pilote finally got Moncton back on even terms with under five minutes to go.

Philippe Daoust and Loshing scored in the shootout for Moncton, but Acadie-Bathurst found the net three times with the game-winner coming in round five.

Rookie Wildcats goalie Vincent Filion made 25 in his QMJHL debut.





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Moncton Wildcats goaltender Vincent Filion
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