Players of the week are Philippe Dupuis and Drew MacIntyre
The Québec Major Junior Hockey League announced the offensive and defensive players of the week selected for the period of Monday November 25 to Sunday December 1st, 2002.
This week’s QMJHL offensive player of the week is 17-year-old centre player from the Hull Olympiques, Philippe Dupuis. At his last 3 games last week, he scored 4 goals and added 2 assists for 6 points and +4. Dupuis won 38 of the 64 face-offs he took (59,4%).
Last Thursday, the Hull Olympiques were in Val-d’Or and Foreurs’ goalie Maxime Daigneault got 10 shots only from Dupuis on 35. The young player scored twice, included the winning goal scored at 1:24 in overtime. Hull won 5-4 and got its 1000th victory of its history. Last Wednesday against the Huskies in Rouyn-Noranda, the Olympiques won 4-3 over the Huskies and Dupuis got 1 assist. Friday November 29, the Mooseheads were in Hull. After the second period, Halifax was leading 4-2 but in the third period, the Olympiques’ offensive came back and scored 4 goals and win the game 6-4. It was the 8th win in a row for the Hull Olympiques. Philippe, who is from Laval City, scored 2 goals – the winning goal with only 3 minutes to play – and got 1 assist.
Finally, Philippe Dupuis has a sequence of 15 games in a row with 1 point or more. He is actually the best scorer of his team with 37 points in 29 games. He scored his 16th goal of the season in his last game. This Tuesday, December 3, the Hull Olympiques will be the hosts of the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, which is first of the East Division with 38 points.
Other nominated players were : Pierre-Luc Laprise from Foreurs, Val-d’Or; Jean-Philippe Brière from Saguenéens, Chicoutimi; Jean-Michel Daoust from Olympiques, Hull.
La semaine passée/Last week
NOM EQ PJ B A Pts BAN Pem 2m 5m 10m Inc Mch +/-
NAME Team GP G A Pts PPG Pim 2m 5m 10m M GM +/-
Dupuis, Philippe Hul 3 4 2 6 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 4
Saison 2002-2003 Season
Pos No PJ B A Pts +/- PeM BAN BDN BG BE
Pos No GP G A Pts +/- PiM PPG SHG WG TG
CD 10 Philippe Dupuis 29 16 21 37 6 46 4 0 3 1
The talented Sherbrooke Castors’ goaltender Drew MacIntyre, is the best defensive player of the week in the QMJHL. In 3 games, he got 2 wins, 1 tie and preserved a 1.62 goals-against average and a .9412 save percentage.
In Victoriaville last Tuesday, MacIntyre who belongs to the Detroit Red Wings, did 22 saves in a 2-1 victory over the Tigres. He stopped all the 13 shots in the 3rd period while the Castors did only 5. Last Friday in Sherbrooke before 1843 fans, the Castors tied 3-3 with the Moncton Wildcats. Drew stopped 29 shots included 12 in the third period. The Castors got 5 shots in the 3rd period and the Wildcats got 13. Yesterday afternoon, the Acadie-Bathurst Titan was the visitor. In a 2-1 victory over the Titan, Drew MacIntyre stopped 29 shots; 14 in the 3rd period. The Castors got only 6 shots on goal in the last period.
Finally, Drew MacIntyre has played very well and is at the 6th rank of the save percentage in the QMJHL with .913 and at the 7th rank of the goals-against average with 2.56. MacIntyre played 28 of the 32 games this season. The Sherbrooke Castors have actually 34 points and are just behind the Victoriaville Tigres who have 37 points. The Shawinigan Cataractes, who won 7-6 over the Screaming Eagles last Saturday, will be the visitors this Tuesday, December 3rd.
Other nominated players were: James Sanford from Wildcats, Moncton; Rosario Ruggeri from Saguenéens, Chicoutimi; Jesse Lane from Olympiques, Hull.
La semaine passée/Last week
NOM EQ PJ TEMPS BC BL V D N MOY LaB %EFF
NAME Team GP TIME GA SO W L T AVE SoN %EFF
MacIntyre, Drew She 3 185.00 5 0 2 0 1 1.62 85 0.9412
Saison 2002-2003 Season
No PJ MINS MOY V D N BD BL BC LC %EFF
No GP MINS AVG W L T EN SO GA SA SV%
00 Drew MacIntyre 28 1594.27 2.56 12 13 3 0 0 68 781 0.913
