The bridge still stands.
Chris Chaddock scored the shootout winner and Alex Goulet scored two goals and an assist as the Charlottetown Islanders beat the Moncton Wildcats for the first time in five games this season Saturday night at Eastlink Centre.
Chaddock was the fifth shooter in a scoreless shootout and pulled the puck to his backhand to beat Wildcats goalie Alex Dubeau on the glove-hand side to secure the Islanders win.
“I just really have a couple moves and that’s one of them,” said Chaddock. “I just felt like that was the best for the occasion so I did it.”
The win snaps a three-game losing streak for the Islanders and improve to 15-15-1-1 on the season. The Wildcats fall to 17-10-0-2.
“We came into this game, we were confident,” said Chaddock. “We wanted to really play our game and we knew we could beat them.”
It’s a huge win, said Chaddock.
“We didn’t really want to push it into overtime or shootout. I think we deserved a couple of bounces, it was just that type of game in regulation. It feels good.”
Goulet said it felt good to finally beat the Wildcats this season.
“We hate those guys. It’s going to be hard every time we play them.”
It was a good bounce back game after Friday night’s 5-0 loss in Halifax, said Goulet.
“It was a huge game for our club and we’re happy to get the win.”
Goulet opened the scoring just 57 seconds into the contest with his 13th goal of the season before it began to rain teddy bears. Daniel Sprong and Filip Chlapik drew assists.
The Wildcats tied the game with Jacob Sweeney tallying a power play marker at 13:25 for his fifth of the season. Dominic Talbot-Tissi and Ivan Barbashev drew assists.
Just 32 seconds later, Mario Jr. Duquette converted on an Islanders turnover to give the Wildcats a 2-1 lead with his first career QMJHL goal. Lane Cormier was given an assist on the goal.
Shots were 20-9 in favour of Charlottetown.
The second period nearly went scoreless until Goulet scored his second of the game and 14th of the season at 19:52 to tie the game 2-2. Chlapik and Guillaume Rioux-Legault drew assists. Shots were 11-7 Moncton.
In the third period, Stephen Johnson gave the Wildcats a 3-2 lead at 14:19 with his 18th goal of the season.
The Wildcats were 13 seconds away from its fifth straight win over the Islanders before Goulet found Dexter Weber in the open to tie the game with his second goal of the season. Ross Johnston also drew an assist on the goal. Shots were 16-6 in favour of Charlottetown.
Overtime solved nothing and there were no shots from either team.
Mason McDonald stopped all five of Moncton's shooters: Cameron Askew, Conor Garland, Barbahsev, Eric Leger and Liam Murphy.
Chlapik, Sprong, Goulet, Kameron Kielly were all scoreless before Chaddock scored.
McDonald made 24 saves in the win for Charlottetown. Dubeau turned aside 40 shots for the loss.
The Islanders are back in action Thursday Dec. 11 in Chicoutimi against the Sagueneens at 8 p.m. AST.
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