Quick Recap: Titan pulls out 5-1 win over Islanders on Saturday

Saturday Jan. 24 - Acadie-Bathurst Titan rookie Jordan Maher scored his first career hat-trick to lead the Titan to a 5-1 win over the visiting Charlottetown Islanders Saturday night at the K.C. Irving Regional Centre in Bathurst, N.B.

Andrew Ryan (1-4) and Jeffrey Truchon-Viel (1-1) also scored for the Titan who improves to 14-31-4-2 on the season after a shootout loss to Moncton today.

Ryan MacKinnon scored the lone goal for Charlottetown who snaps a four-game winning streak and are now 24-20-1-3 on the season.

Scoring Summary:
First Period
Bathurst: Jordan Maher, (10) (Guillaume Brisebois, Andrew Ryan), 5:07 (PP)
Bathurst:Jeffrey Truchon-Viel, (8) (Andrew Ryan, Guillaume Brisebois), 18:52
Shots: 15-15

Second Period
Bathurst: Jordan Maher, (11) (Jeffrey Truchon-Viel, Andrew Ryan), 11:12
Shots: 12-9 Charlottetown

Third Period
Charlottetown: Ryan MacKinnon, (8) (Daniel Sprong, Dexter Weber), 1:59 (PP)
Bathurst: Andrew Ryan, (15) (Reilly Pickard), 16:45
Bathurst: Jordan Maher, (12) (Nicolas Latulippe, Andrew Ryan), 18:01
Shots: 16-8 Charlottetown

Goaltenders
Charlottetown: Daryl MacCallum, Loss, 27/32
Bathurst: Reilly Pickard, Win, 42/43

Islanders host the Baie-Comeau Drakkar Thursday Jan. 29 at 7 p.m.

Chlapik scores late goal as Islanders down Titan 2-1

Filip Chlapik’s fluke goal with 1:40 left on the clock is what the Charlottetown Islanders needed in a 2-1 win over the Acadie-Bathurst Titan Friday night at Eastlink Centre.

Chlapik fired a harmless looking shot before it hit off a Titan player’s skate and then into the back of the net.

“I just took the puck and put it at the net and it was a lucky bounce and it was a goal,” said Chlapik on his 23rd goal of the season. “It’s an important two points for us.”

The Islanders are now on its third four-game winning streak of the season and improve to 24-19-1-3. The Titan drops its sixth straight and falls to 13-31-4-1.

“We didn’t have our best game but it’s nice to get the two points,” said Islanders forward Spenser Cobbold.

It feels great to be on another winning streak, said Cobbold.

“Hopefully we can just keep it going right now.”

BMO Top Prospects Game: Team Orr skates to 6-0 win over Team Cherry

Team Orr celebrates its win. Photo by Aaron Bell.

Travis Konecny and Timo Meier each had three points to lead Team Orr to a 6-0 win over Team Cherry Thursday night at the BMO Top Prospects Game in St. Catharine's, Ont.

Konency, of the OHL's Ottawa 67's, scored a paired of goals and added an assist. Meier of the Halifax Mooseheads scored a goal and picked up a pair of assists.

Charlottetown Islanders forwards Daniel Sprong and Filip Chlapik were held pointless with minus ratings. Sprong was a minus-one, while Chlapik was a minus-two.

Team Orr opened the scoring at 12:30 with Ryan Pilon (Brandon Wheat Kings, WHL) scoring an unassisted tally.

Meier made it a 2-0 game at 19:46 with Connor McDavid (Erie Otters, OHL) and Konecny drawing assists.

Shots were 14-8 in favour of Team Orr.

The second period was scoreless, but Team Cherry had a 10-5 shot advantage. Team Cherry starter Samuel Montembeault (Blainville-Boisbriand Armada) was replaced by Michael McNiven (Owen Sound Attack, OHL). Team Orr made a goalie change also as Liam Herbst (Ottawa 67's, OHL) replaced starter Nick McBride (Prince Albert Raiders, WHL).

Game day: Titan @ Islanders

Date: Friday Jan. 23, 2015

Match: Acadie-Bathurst Titan @ Charlottetown Islanders

Where: Eastlink Centre, Charlottetown, P.E.I.

Time: 7 p.m. AST

TV: Webcast

Live Tweets: IslesLive

Pre-game stats:

Last meeting this season:	Dec. 28, BAT 1 @ CHA 4
Next game between two teams:	Saturday Jan. 24 in Bathurst
Head-to-head record this season:	Charlottetown 4-1-0-0, Acadie-Bathurst 1-4-0-0
Head-to-head record for 2013-14:	Acadie-Bathurst 6-3-0-0, Charlottetown 3-5-0-1
Last 5 years between teams:	Acadie-Bathurst 21-14-3-0, Charlottetown 17-16-1-4
Last 5 years at Charlottetown:	Charlottetown 10-9-0-1, Acadie-Bathurst 10-9-1-0

Pair of Islanders in Top Prospects Game action tonight

Daniel Sprong. Photo by Natasa Djermanovic.

A pair of Charlottetown Islanders forwards, and top prospects for the upcoming 2015 NHL Entry Draft, will be representing Team Cherry tonight at the 2015 BMO Top Prospects Game in St. Catharine's, Ont.

Daniel Sprong and Filip Chlapik will play against Team Orr at 8 p.m. AST broadcasted live in Sportsnet.

It is the second straight year the Islanders will be represented at the annual event. Mason McDonald suited up for Team Orr last season, but was named to the team while a member of the Acadie-Bathurst Titan.

McDonald named Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week

Mason McDonald. Photo by Darrell Theriault.

After being named the QMJHL 's second star of the week, Charlottetown Islanders goaltender Mason McDonald received national honours by being named the Vaughn CHL Goaltender of the Week today.

The period is for the week ending Jan. 18, 2015.

McDonald helped the Islanders pick up two of its three wins over the weekend on the road in Quebec.  In those two wins, McDonald posted a shutout and stopped 67 of 69 shots fired his way for a 1.00 goals against average and a 0.971 save percentage.

On Friday in Sherbrooke, McDonald made 31 saves to earn first-star honours as he posted his first shutout of the season and as an Islander. On Sunday in Quebec City, McDonald made 36 saves against the Remparts in a 3-2 win.

Islanders on NHL CSS Midterm Rankings

Daniel Sprong. Photo by: Darrell Theriault.

Earlier this afternoon the NHL Central Scouting Bureau released its midterm rankings for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft which takes place late June in Buffalo, N.Y.

The Top 10 sees: Connor McDavid (Erie, OHL), Jack Eichel (Boston University), Noah Hanifin (Boston College), Lawson Crouse (Kingston, OHL), Dylan Strome (Erie, OHL),  Zachary Werenski (University of Michigan), Mitchell Marner (London, OHL), Pavel Zacha (Sarnia, OHL) Matthew Barzal (Seattle, WHL) and Ivan Provorov (Brandon, WHL)

Five Charlottetown Islanders players made the midterm ranking including:

Filip Chlapik, 17th
Daniel Sprong, 20th
Kameron Kiellym 80th
David Henley, 99th
Alexandre Goulet, 163rd