Game #3 Recap: Acadie-Bathurst Titan vs. Halifax Mooseheads

Acadie-Bathurst Titan vs. Halifax Mooseheads

Final Score
Acadie-Bathurst - 4
Halifax - 0

Goalscorers
Acadie-Bathurst: Nicholas Blanchard, Antoine Morand, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Jordan Maher
Halifax: None

Goalies
Acadie-Bathurst: Reilly Pickard (W)
Halifax: Eric Brassard (L)

Moosehead Player of the Game

Kelly Bent. I'll admit when the Mooseheads first got him last year I wasn't too thrilled, but that has change. Despite a mess of a game, Bent rarely (if ever) took a shift off, always forechecking and keeping pressure on the puck. He was a bright spot in what was an underwhelming performance.

Thing That Annoyed Me

I don't know what happened between the first and second period, but they set up a bakery in the middle frame. Just turnover after turnover early on, and were not able to recover.

Game Notes

• The place formerly known as the Metro Centre underwent renovations during the summer. One of the changes was replacing the orange seats with more comfortable blue seats. In honour of the change, a orange seat was hung in the rafters along with the retired jerseys. 
• Along with Bent, I was impressed with Ilya Putintsev. He was checking pretty well in the first, disturbing Titan forwards in the neutral zone. Putintsev also had a few carry-ins (sadly, they didn't amount to much).
• The defense group didn't have a good game overall, with Walter Flower standing out more than most. The rookie defenseman was targeted and beat quite a bit by Titan forwards. He was also penalized twice.
• Speaking of being penalized, Connor Moynihan. He took a dumb checking from behind penalty, and was involved in a few altercations in the third.
• Acadie-Bathrust was deadly on special teams. Blanchard scored on a shorthanded breakaway, and two of the other three goals came on powerplays (Maher scored seconds after a powerplay expired, so it could have been three).

Game Pics

Even rookie refs get the solo treatment.

(Most) of the 2015-2016 Halifax Mooseheads.

See? They hung a fricken chair in the rafter! Too bad there was no ceremony for it.

Couldn't get by without some maintenance.

Video



Morand's goal to make it 2-0 for the Titan