MONCTON, N.B. – The Acadie Bathurst Titan overturned a three-goal first period deficit to beat the Moncton Wildcats 4-3 in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League action Tuesday night.
The Titan scored three of their own in the second period and Zach O’Brien scored the winning goal early in the third period on a two man advantage.
Sebastien Trudeau, Christophe Losier and Olivier Houle rounded out the scoring for Acadie-Bathurst (3-0-0).
Alex Saulnier, Marek Hrivik and Erik Robichaud scored for Moncton (1-2-0).
The Wildcats jumped out to an early lead when Saulnier scored his fourth goal of the season 3:05 into the period.
Hrivik doubled Moncton’s lead with his first goal of the season on a power play just over five minutes later.
The Wildcats took a three-goal lead 1:29 later through Erik Robichaud, and Moncton took the advantage into the intermission.
But Acadie-Bathurst started the comeback 2:24 into the second period when Trudeau beat Roman Will in the Wildcats goal.
Just over four minutes later Losier cut the lead to one and Houle pulled the Titan level with a goal just over halfway through the period.
That set the stage for O’Brien who got the winner 57 seconds into the third while Acadie-Bathurst enjoyed a two-man advantage.
Robert Steeves made 21 saves for the Titan, while Will also turned away 21 shots.
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