BLAINVILLE-BOISBRIAND - Mathis Cloutier scored twice as the Blainville-Boisbriand beat the Sherbrooke Phoenix 3-2 Sunday and forced a decisive Game 7 in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League first-round series.
The Prince George Cougars and Baie-Comeau Drakkar have risen to the top of the WHL and QMJHL respectively while the Mississauga Steelheads and Kitchener Rangers are duking it out for OHL supremacy after the first month of the CHL season.
The first Nashville Predators fans to get a glimpse of the team s goaltending future happened to be a gaggle of pre-teens attending a summer hockey workout at Centennial Sportsplex. Yaroslav Askarov didn t disappoint and that was before he actually set foot on the ice. The 11th overall pick in the 2020 draft, the highest drafted goalie since Carey Price went fifth overall in the post lockout draft in 2005, quick-stepped from the Predators locker room at their practice facility and seeing the kids grouped on the metal stands next to the ice, rushed to them high-fiving them with his right-hand catching mitt. And then he was off to the ice for his first official appearance on Predator ice.