Recap: Voltigeurs Take Down Wildcats With Last-Minute Winner

Thanksgiving weekend's QMJHL action continued with two games on a Thursday night.

The game of focus saw a resurgent Voltigeurs team give the Wildcats their second loss of the season, leaving it late to find a winner.

The first period of this one started out fairly mellow, with the shots looking pretty even for the most part. The game seemed destined to head into intermission remaining goalless, before a Renaud Poulin goal with seven seconds left put the Volts up late.

In the second, the action certainly started to pick up. Will Manchuso got on the board to tie the game back up, before Dylan Dumont put the visitors back in the lead.

The teams would alternate goals yet again, as Niko Tournas' eighth of the season tied the game at two, before Louis-Felix Bourque gave Drummondville their third lead of the night just past the midway mark of the period.

It would settle down a bit from there, until Rian Chudzinski put one home to even up the score at three apiece, which held into the third period.

The final frame saw the play heavily slanted in favour of the away team, who held an 11-4 shots advantage in the third. After 19:22 of scoreless pressure, Yoan Tasse put a rebound past Yegor Rybkin, giving the Voltigeurs the lead once again with just 38 seconds to go. 

They'd hold onto that 4-3 advantage, and walk away with their second win of the season.

Rouyn-Noranda (2) - Halifax (6)

Player of the Night

Shawn Carrier (HAL) - 2 goals, 0 assists

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Newfoundland at Rimouski - 7 PM ET
Cape Breton at Chicoutimi - 7 PM ET
Baie-Comeau at Gatineau - 7 PM ET

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