Rocket Lineup

Anthony Richard – Peter Abbandonato – Joel Teasdale

Emil Heineman – Mitchell Stephens – Pierrick Dube

Jan Mysak – Lucas Condotta – Xavier Simoneau

Riley McKay – Nolan Yaremko – Gabriel Bourque

William Trudeau – Nicolas Beaudin

Mattias Norlinder – Corey Schueneman

Olivier Galipeau – Tory Dello

Cayden Primeau – Kevin Poulin

Danick Martel, Madison Bowey, John Parker-Jones, Frederic Allard, Brandon Gignac, Jayden Struble

Gianni Fairbrother (knee), Otto Leskinen

Game Report

Game Report written by Amy Johnson

What a difference a week makes! After winning three out of their three road games so far this week, the Laval Rocket entered tonight’s game in Milwaukee back in fifth place in the North Division. That’s enough to put them back in a playoff position, but just barely. With Cleveland and Belleville still nipping at their heels, and with games in hand, the Rocket had a tough task ahead of them on Saturday night.

First Period

Play was pretty balanced and understated in the first 10 minutes of this game. Then the building woke up a bit when the Admirals took a 1-0 lead off of a goal by Anthony Angello.

Things heated up a few minutes later when big Isaac Ratcliffe mixed things up with Xavier Simoneau. The officials broke things up before an actual fight, with Simoneau heading to the box for a two-minute roughing minor. Ratcliffe was given four minutes for roughing and assessed a 10-minute misconduct.

Emil Heineman ripped a snap shot from the point after a big rebound on the power play, and Gabriel Bourque deflected the puck in to even the score at 1-1.

With just under two minutes to go before intermission, Milwaukee regained their one-goal lead when Tommy Apap quickly released a wrister from the left circle that beat Cayden Primeau up high.

Second Period

The penalty boxes were active again this period, and the Rocket took advantage when they could. After assisting on a power play goal in the previous period, Heineman scored one of his own in the second.

However, seconds later the Admirals got that goal right back when Navrin Mutter scored his first professional goal by putting a juicy rebound past Primeau.

Third Period

Pierrick Dube evened the score again when he found the back of the net just 25 seconds into the third period, with a shot from the slot.

Anthony Richard gave the Rocket their first lead of the night when he and Nolan Yaremko had numbers on a shorthanded breakaway.

Dube added a second tally on the night around the midway point of the period when the puck rolled to his stick and he had a wide open net back door.

With 57 seconds left in the game, Tye Felhaber pulled the Admirals back within one but moments later it was negated when Mitchell Stephens sent the puck down the length of the ice into an empty net. 

What’s Next

Plus / Minus

▲ Emil Heineman, Pierrick Dube, 

▼ Corey Schueneman, Riley McKay