Recap: Canadiens Development Camp scrimmage

BROSSARD – After a 2-2 tie in the first game, Team Red steamrolled its way to a 7-1 victory over Team White in the second game of the intrasquad scrimmage at Canadiens Development Camp on Friday.

Habs prospects faced off in a pair of 4-on-4, 25-minute games at a packed CN Sports Complex. The roster was split for the session as follows, with goaltenders rotating duties between squads:

Here's a recap of the day's action:

Game 1

Sam Harris opened the scoring when he tapped in a feed from Bronson Ride at 4:03, beating Quentin Miller with assists from Ride and Michael Hage.

Emanuelson Charbonneau evened things up when he pinched in and rifled a shot from the high slot which made it through and in past Jacob Fowler at 9:20. Jules Boilard picked up a helper on the play.

Tyler Thorpe gave Team White another go-ahead goal, scored against Fowler, when Logan Sawyer sprung him for a breakaway from his own goal line at 11:35. Luke Mittelstadt picked up the secondary assist on the goal.

Joshua Nadeau tied the game at the 17:57 mark when he drove in on the right side and wristed a shot past Mikus Vecvanags to make it a 2-2 game, with Francesco Dell’Elce earning a helper.

Game 2

Florian Xhekaj got things going early in the second game, driving the puck in and completing a give-and-go with Joshua Nadeau to beat Vecvanags and make it 1-0 at 1:57. Ride also picked up an assist.

Hage gave his team a two-goal lead when he accepted a pass banked off the boards by Harris and wristed it past Vecvanags at 4:53.

Harris made it a 3-0 game when he completed a tic-tac-toe with Hage and Dell’Elce against Vecvanags at the 6:38 mark.

Less than a minute later, Harris added another when he jammed it in past Vecvanags from in close to give Team Red a 4-0 lead.

Exactly a minute after that, Protz fed Nadeau off the faceoff, with Nadeau firing it in and beating Vecvanags from near the hash marks to put Team Red ahead 5-0. Charles Savoie picked up a secondary assist on the play.

Nadeau scored on Vecvanags from nearly the exact same spot just 35 seconds later, this time off a feed from Dell'Elce.

Thorpe finally got Team White on the board at the 12:08 mark of the game, wristing it from near the top of the circle past Miller after Charbonneau skated the puck in deep and sent it his way.

Xhekaj wrapped things up with Team Red’s seventh of the game, wristing it through traffic near the hash marks at 21:17 to beat Fowler. Ride and Protz got the assists.

Rewatch the full scrimmage on-demand on YouTube: