If he considers that his Remparts “have given the gameto the Mooseheads, Saturday in a 6-3 loss, Patrick Roy also believes that the spectacle of this QMJHL final would be better if the teams did not play two games in as many days.
“I find that we are a bit like dinosaurs as a league, commented the head coach of Quebec after the match. In the sense that we shouldn’t have to play two games in two days all the time. The show would be better if we alternated between a game day and a day off.
“I think we can do it. instead of playing [samedi], we should have played on Sunday, continued Roy. Especially in the final. But we decided that was it pattern and we stay in the pattern. […] We’re going to Halifax and we’re going to play Tuesday and Wednesday.”
The scores of the first two games of the Gilles-Courteau Trophy final – the Remparts won the first game 5 to 1 – indeed testify to one-sided matches, even if Saturday’s game was rather disputed in the first and third periods. .
Key moments sank them
But the pilot of the “Red Devils” did not explain the defeat of his people by these two meetings played in 24 hours.
For Patrick Roy, the “key moments” were not in favor of the Remparts.
“In a playoff game, there are always key moments,” he said. If Nathan Gaucher had scored on the breakaway [en première période], it would have been 3 to 0. And there, bang! It’s more like 2 to 1. We also had a golden chance at 2 to 1 and they are coming, bang! […] It’s 2 to 2, then 3 to 2…”
“Honestly, we didn’t play a good game,” added Roy.
“They were better than us in the battles, we weren’t as physical, we didn’t finish our checks, we played more slowly in the neutral zone,” he said.