Peterborough Petes avoid elimination with 4-2 win over Quebec Remparts at Memorial Cup
The Peterborough Petes avoided elimination from the Memorial Cup playoff picture on Tuesday night by beating the Quebec Remparts 4-2 at the Sandman Centre.
The desperate Petes, who dropped their first two games of the four-team, 10-day tournament, scored twice in a span of 2½ minutes midway through the second period to break a scoreless deadlock, then traded goals the remainder of the way with the somewhat passive Remparts, who were already guaranteed a berth in Sunday’s championship game based on earlier wins over Seattle and Kamloops.
Tucker Robertson, J.R. Avon, Avery Hayes and Connor Lockhart scored for the Ontario Hockey League champion Petes, who will play on Thursday night against the loser of Wednesday’s game between the Western Hockey League champion Thunderbirds and host Blazers.James Malatesta and Nathan Gaucher scored for the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League champion Remparts, who were outshot 36-28and didn’t play with the same urgency as they did in their first two games, perhaps not wanting to risk injury.
Remparts’ netminder William Rousseau, the team’s star in its 3-1 win against Seattle on Monday, was replaced early in the third period by Quentin Miller after allowing the fourth Peterborough goal at 3:37.The Remparts finish the preliminary round with a 2-1 record and won’t play again until Sunday’s final. The Thunderbirds and Blazers are both 1-1, while the Petes are 1-2.POKE CHECKS: The round-robin stage of the Memorial Cup wraps up Wednesday night with an all-WHL showdown.
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