It was a Friday the 13th night for the P.E.I. Rocket in an 8-2 loss to the Shawinigan Cataractes Friday night at the Charlottetown Civic Centre.
Shawinigan built a 4-0 first period lead and never looked back. The loss for the Rocket, drops them to 12-27-2-2 on the season.
Michael Bournival led the way for the Cataractes with two goals and two assists. Fellow Island-natives, Morgan Ellis (1-1) and Brandon Gormley (0-2), had two points each.
Rocket defenceman Ryan Graves said the team had a poor effort.
"They're obviously a good team…we could have been a lot better I think."
Gormley, a native of Murray River, P.E.I., said it was a good win for his club.
"We played well right from the start and ready to go."
Shawinigan built a 4-0 lead in the first period with goals Ellis, Anton Zlobin and two goals from Bournival.
Graves said the second period was suppose to be a bounce back period.
"It's not really over…try to prove what we can really do."
In the second period, the Cataractes built up a 7-0 lead with goals from Kirill Kabanov, Loik Poudrier and Pierre-Olivier Morin.
Louick Marcotte and Matej Beran scored for P.E.I. to make it a 7-2 game.
Michael Chaput had the lone goal of the third period to make it 8-2 Shawinigan and cap off the scoring.
Maxime Lagace started for the Rocket but was pulled after allowing six goals on 17 shots and was relieved by Antoine Bibeau who stopped 25-of-27 shots.
Alex Dubeau made 16 saves in goal for the Cataractes.
The Rocket host the Chicoutimi Sagueneens Saturday night at 7 p.m.
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