The Charlottetown Islanders have a 2-0 lead coming home in the second round of the Q playoffs after dropping the Halifax Mooseheads, 7-4.
Nikita Alexandrov with a pair of goals and assists.
Goalie Matt Welsh made 47 saves in the nets.
Games 3 and 4 back in Charlottetown on Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
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Mitchel Balmas scored twice as Acadie-Bathurst stopped Sherbrooke, 5-1. The Titan lead, 2-0.
Victoriaville evened its series in Drummondville with a 4-1 victory over the Voltigeurs.
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Kyle Ward scored his second goal of the game in the 2nd overtime as the Edmundston Blizzard edged the Summerside Western Capitals, 5-4. The Blizzard takes a 3-2 series lead with Game 6 in Summerside on Monday night at 7.00.
TJ Shea tied the score in the 3rd.
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It’s an all-Island final in the Maritime-North Jr. C Championship in Crapaud. The Island champion Sherwood Metros will take on the South Side Lynx at 2.00. Logan Toole of the Metros named the tourney MVP. Cameron Nelson named as an All-Star defenseman from the Lynx and Owen Arsenault of the Metros named an All-Star forward.
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The Western Phantoms of New Brunswick will play the Central Storm from PEI for the Bronze at 10.00 and the Mid Isle Wildcats play the Metro West Force Blues of Nova Scotia in the gold medal game at 12.00 in the Atlantic Bantam Female Championship at the Bell Aliant Centre.
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The Prince County Warriors will play the St. John’s Hitmen for the Bronze in the Atlantic Bantams in Torbay, N-L.
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The Philadelphia Flyers won the playoff spot in the East by blanking the NY Rangers, 5-0. Claude Giroux with three goals. After the game the Rangers fired former PEI Rocket coach Alain Vigneault as the head coach in New York.
Colorado won the final playoff spot in the West with a 5-2 effort over St. Louis.
Power play goals from Nazem Kadri and Auston Matthews powered the Toronto Maple Leafs to a 4-2 win over Montreal.
Boston stopped Ottawa, 5-2.
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Patrick Reed has a three stroke lead entering the final round of the Masters in Augusta.
Rory McIlroy fashioned a 65 on Saturday to move into 2nd place.
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The Boston Red Sox made it 7 straight wins as they bombed Tampa Bay, 10-3. Xander Bogaerts had a grand slam and drove in six.
Texas beat Toronto, 5-1 in the cold. 4 degrees at game time.
The Yankees tumbled Baltimore, 8-3.
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ON TODAY
The Island Storms looks to take a 2-0 lead in the first round of the NBL basketball playoffs in Halifax facing the Hurricanes at 2.00.
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The Sherwood Metros and Western Red Wings open the Island Jr. B finals in Evangeline at 7.30.