Maxime Boisclair had yet another big night Friday against the Lewiston Maineiacs.
Boisclair scored two of his three goals on third-period power plays to lift the Chicoutimi Sagueneens to a 5-1 win over the Maineiacs at the Centre Georges-Vezina.
In three seasons, Boisclair has 17 goals and six assists in 16 games against Lewiston. His three goals Friday made him the first in the league this season to reach 60 goals, and his two power play goals earned him the top spot all-time in the QMJHL, passing Daniel Briere’s total of 36 from 1996.
For the Maineiacs, meanwhile, the loss is their fourth in five games, though two of those losses came in shootouts, and leaves the team three points ahead of Halifax for fourth place in the Eastern Conference.
“Halifax will play (tonight) and they will try to do their job,” said Jodoin, “but we have to do our job, too. It’s not going to be easy.”
The Maineiacs were outshot in the first period, by a count of 11-3. Lewiston breathed a sigh of relief, then, when the Sags managed just one goal on the period, a snipe by Marek Zagrapan on a feed from Stanislav Lascek.
“It’s more about scoring chances,” said Jodoin. “We had them, but we weren’t always putting them on the net.”
The tide reversed in the second, with the Maineiacs firing the majority of the rubber in Alexandre Vincent’s direction. Chicoutimi went with quality, though, instead of quantity. Despite opening up the period with a 13-3 advantage in shots, the Maineiacs fell behind 2-0 at the nine-minute mark thanks to Boisclair’s 60th of the season, and the Sags made it 3-0 when Francis Verrault-Paul took advantage of a bad Lewiston line change at 15:01.
“It could have been three or four goals for us early in the second,” said Jodoin. “We just couldn’t finish.”
Lewiston continued to pepper Vincent, and the backstop remained strong. In all, the Maineiacs fired 22 shots at Vincent in the period. Finally, with 40 seconds to play, one found its way through courtesy of Stefano Giliati.
In the third, though, Boisclair took over, scoring his two power play goals through the middle part of the period to ice the game.
Lewiston returns to home ice Sunday against the Acadie-Bathurst Titan at 4 p.m.
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