Tough loss for Oceanic

How about that game last night, a 3-2 OT win for Drummondville over Rimouski....if that wasn't the most entertaining game of the Memorial Cup so far this year then I don't know what was. Two QMJHL teams playing the style of hockey we all expect from the "Q".

Rimouski totally, absolutely, 100% deserved to win that game though. They outshot the Voltigeurs by a 2-1 ratio and were simply the better team everywhere but on the scoreboard. Drummondville goaltender Marco Cousineau is the ONLY reason his team is in the semifinal tomorrow. He was spectacular and if not for his efforts, this game would have been 7-2 or 8-2 for Rimouski in regulation.

So, because of the tough loss, Rimouski now has to play the tiebreaker game tonight against Windsor.  The winner of the tiebreaker plays Drummondville tomorrow night for the right to play the Rockets in Sunday's final. 

Don't you just KNOW that the Rimouski boys would love to beat Windsor and get another crack at Drummondville after the way last night went....but to do that, they're going to have to play a lot better against Windsor tonight than they did in their round-robin meeting. Rimouski won the round-robin game 5-4 on Sunday but they were quite outplayed by the Spitfires in that game so the Oceanic are going to have to bring a much better effort tonight, because the Spits are likely to be pretty fired up.