HALIFAX – The Halifax Mooseheads avoided an upset, holding on to beat the Quebec Remparts 3-1 on Tuesday in Game 7 of their Quebec Major Junior Hockey League first-round matchup.
Halifax, the No. 1 seed in the East and eighth-ranked club in the 60-team Canadian Hockey League, needed back-to-back victories to advance after falling behind 3-2 in the best-of-seven series.
Jocktan Chainey put the Mooseheads ahead for good at 4:41 of the second period while Keith Getson added some insurance just 52 seconds into the third.
Maxim Trepanier tied the game 1-1 after Sam Dunn opened the scoring for the Remparts at 8:07 of the first.
Alexis Gravel made 26 saves for Halifax as Carmine-Anthony Pagliarulo turned aside 28 shots for Quebec.
The Mooseheads host the 2019 Memorial Cup.
TIGRES 4 FOREURS 3 (OT)
VICTORIAVILLE, Que. — Olivier Mathieu scored 35 seconds into overtime as the Tigres slipped past Val-d’Or in Game 7 of their first-round series to advance.
Simon Lafrance, Edouard Ouellet and Feliks Morozov scored in regulation for Victoriaville while Tristan Cote-Cazenave made 24 saves for the victory.
Karl Boudrias, Julien Tessier and Nicolas Ouellet found the back of the net for the Foreurs, who got 28 stops from Jonathan Lemieux.
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WILDCATS 3 DRAKKAR 1
BAIE-COMEAU, Que. — Francis Leclerc turned away 33 shots as Moncton shocked the Drakkar to take its first-round matchup in seven games.
Jakob Pelletier, Alexander Khovanov and Jeremy McKenna supplied the Wildcats offence.
Samuel L’Italien replied for Baie-Comeau, the seventh-ranked team in the CHL. Alex D’Orio stopped 30 shots in defeat.
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