(Laval) The Laval Rocket put on a good show for fans at Place Bell on Friday night, defeating the Wolf Pack of Hartford by a score of 7-4. Joël Teasdale and Brandon Gignac had four points apiece in the win.
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Teasdale scored three goals and added an assist, while Gignac hit the target once and added three assists. The Rocket (27-21-3-0) ended a two-game losing streak.
Jean-Sébastien Day, Rafaël Harvey-Pinard and Kevin Roy scored the other goals for the Rocket.
Cayden Primeau earned the win stopping 28 shots.
In the Wolf Pack camp (27-20-5-2), we suffered a fourth loss in a row. Zac Jones, Ty Ronning, Anthony Greco and Tanner Fritz found the back of the net.
It was former Montreal Canadiens goaltender Keith Kinkaid who started the game in front of the Harford net. He allowed three goals on five shots before giving way to Adam Huska midway through the first period. The latter made 19 relief stops.
Second paid period
Day opened the scoring on the power play at 2:27 in the first period on the Rocket’s first shot of the game after a penalty awarded to goaltender Kinkaid. Jones replied for the Wolfpack four minutes later.
Teasdale put the hosts back in the lead by recovering a throw return on an outnumbered attack before seeing Ronning once again create the deadlock on the power play.
Then, Harvey-Pinard scored the team’s third goal midway through the period, but indiscipline caught up with the Rocket when Greco made it 3-3 on the five-man attack.
In the second, the Rocket continued their offensive streak as the spring dried up for the Wolfpack.
Roy, Teasdale and Gignac struck back-to-back to give Jean-François Houle’s squad a three-goal lead.
In the third period, Teasdale completed his hat trick by scoring the Rocket’s seventh goal at 7:52. He found himself completely alone in the crease, where he had plenty of time to unleash an accurate shot to beat Huska. .
Fritz made it three goals with just over five minutes to go, but it was too little too late.