GAMEDAY: MOOSEHEADS HOST FOREURS
Veteran forward Kelly Bent believes the Mooseheads will be able to bounce back Sunday afternoon when they welcome the defending President’s Cup Champion Val d’Or Foreurs to Scotiabank Centre at 4pm.
The 19-year-old Halifax native knows what his team needs to do in order to create more offense after back-to-back shutouts losses.
“We just need to keep working on getting the puck deep and going hard on the forecheck to create some turnovers in our favour,“ he said.
The Mooseheads (2-4-1) will be trying for their first victory in three games and are hoping to take advantage of their struggling opponents. The Foreurs (2-6-0-1) have lost seven straight, including a 4-3 shootout decision last night in Moncton.
Val d’Or has given up a league worst 40 goals so far this season, while the Moose have scored the least amount of goals with 18 to their credit.
Halifax is expected to have forward Danny Moynihan back in the lineup after he served a one game suspension on Thursday for a check from behind.
Rookie defenseman Jean-Sebastien Taillefer will sit out with an upper-body injury. He is listed as day-to-day. Dartmouth native Brandon Worthen has been recalled for today’s game.
Anthony Beauregard leads Val d’Or in scoring with nine points while Timo Meier, also with nine points, tops the Herd in the scoring department.
Bent admits he’s looking forward to getting back into the win column.
“We’re just going to do what we need to do and we’ll come out hard against them.“
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