Photo Credit: Dave Mahussier
(1) Game Notes
Coming off two straight road wins in Iowa and Chicago, the Moose returned home with a 4-3-0-0 record to face the Belleville Senators. The Moose got on the board about 9 minutes into the first period – a Buddy Robinson tip-in off a Cam Schilling point shot. Belleville tied it up just over three minutes later on the PP, a screened shot that beat Eric Comrie. But just three minutes after that, the Moose retook the lead on their own PP, with Buddy Robinson picking up a puck back-door and beating the Hamburgler, Andrew Hammond with a quick wrister. The Moose nearly took a 3-1 lead in the second period when Chase De Leo let go a wicked wrister which hit the cross bar. Instead, Belleville managed to tie the game up when Ben Sexton beat Comrie short side past the blocker. Belleville then took the lead after a fantastic feed by the 2015-16 QMJHL player of the year, Francis Perron found Gabriel Gagne back-door for a tap-in. The Sens held the lead through most of the 3rd period, but with 2:14 left, Mason Appleton made a great pass to Chase De Leo in front, and he tipped the puck past Hammond to tie things up and send the game to OT. The extra period was tremendous – Eric Comrie made a huge save on a breakaway a minute just a minute in, then Sami Niku nearly ended it off a great passing play that included Buddy Robinson and Mason Appleton. The game ended up going to a shootout.
Shootout results:
Belleville: Sexton hits the post
Manitoba: Petan gets stopped glove side
Belleville: Ciampini dekes and slides the puck backhand, 5-hole
Manitoba: Sgarbossa makes about 5 dekes, then slides a forehand, 5-hole
Belleville: Gagne comes in quick rips a half-slapper low glove
Manitoba: De Leo comes in with speed and goes backhand, 5-hole
Belleville: Ethan Werek dekes wide on Comrie then puts the puck upstairs on his forehand
Manitoba: Robinson shoots in stride and snipes short-side, blocker side
Belleville: Nick Paul rips a wrist shot top cheese, blocker side
Manitoba: Roslovic is stopped on the blocker side
(2) Scoring Summary
Link: Boxscores
(3) Lineup
Petan-Roslovic-De Leo
Robinson-Sgarbossa-Appleton
Beauvillier-Cormier-Lipon
Harkins-*Spacek-Kramer
Niku-Melchiori
Schilling-Stoykewych
Gotovets-Beaudoin
Comrie
*Michael Spacek left the game in the first period and did not return
Injured: D Nelson Nogier, D Jan Kostalek, F Brody Sutter
Healthy Scratch: F Cam MacLise, D Tim Daly
(4) Player Notes
-Buddy Robinson stat line tonight – 2 goals, 6 shots, 1 penalty drawn, 1 shootout goal – impressive performance
-Chase De Leo led all Moose with 9 shot attempts at even-strength (3 on goal), and scored the tying goal late in the third, as well as a shootout goal
-Mason Appleton had 3 assists, two of them primary, and also had 6 even-strength shot attempts (3 on goal); the rookie now has a 4-game point streak – 1 goal, 6 assists
-Sami Niku led all Moose defenders with 5 shots and 7 shot attempts – all at even-strength
-Jack Roslovic had 4 shots at even-strength (5 overall), and 3 high-danger chances
(5) Audio
Buddy Robinson
Mason Appleton
Coach Vincent
(6) Next Moose Action
Saturday night at the MTS Centre – a Halloween-inspired event
