Nothing Like the Comforts of Home
Opening night for the Montreal Juniors went as best as could be planned. After a 4 game stint on the road, the Juniors were back home and ready to entertain their fans both on and off the ice.Starting with the lively tailgate style atmosphere outside the Verdun Auditorium, and ending with an eventual nail biter towards the end of the 3rd period that resulted in a 4-3 Montreal Victory over the Lewiston MAINEiacs in front of a near capacity crowd last night, the crowd certainly got a bang for their buck..
Local MMA stars Jonathan Goulet, Guillaume DeLorenzi, Patrick Coté as well as boxer Otis Grant were on ahnd for the pregame festivities as well as to drop the puck for the ceremonial faceoff.
No fights occurred on the ice, despite the inspiration that the above mentioned gentlemen may have instilled, however the Juniors, full of youth, exuberance and anxious to please the home crowd, came out of the gates flying and although Lewiston got the first goal, Montreal got the next four.
Coach Pascal Vincent explained why the 3 goal cushion was narrowed to one by saying that his “speedcar” of a team is most impressive and performant when it is going fast, but when they take the foot off the gas and slow down, that is when they give the other teams a chance to get back into the game. Lewiston came within 1 goal of tying the Juniors while a man short with 58 seconds left in the game, but Montreal held on while on the power-play to improve their regular season record to 3-2
Please read on for the official Juniors game recap.
Lewiston left-winger Pier-Olivier Morin was the first to open the scoring early in the second period. His teammate Sebastien Trudeau took a 4-minute high sticking penalty shortly afterwards, and a well-timed Guillaume Asselin slapshot put the Juniors up on the board early on in their subsequent power play. German native Toni Ritter would double the mark for Montreal just before period’s end, scoring his first of the season from teammate Louis-Marc Aubry.
The final frame saw both teams score two goals each. Aubry and Evgeny Solomonov scored for Montreal, while Varennes native Étienne Brodeur tallied his second of the season for Lewiston and fellow MAINEiac Alexander Beaton cut the Juniors’ lead to a single goal. His shorthanded, unassisted marker was as close as Lewiston would come to equalling the score. Jake Allen made 24 saves for the Junior, whereas Adrien Lemay, his opponent between the pipes, stopped 38 of 42 shots.
The Acadie-Bathurst Titan will be the Juniors’ next visitors on Verdun Day, this Sunday, September 27th. The two clubs face off at 4:05 p.m., after which the Juniors extend their home stand for the following three games. The Juniors will then hit the road for games in Baie-Comeau and Chicoutimi, October 10th and 11th respectively.
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