20240705-Dev-Camp-Scrimmage-Recap

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:

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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.

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      Sam Harris taps it in to open the scoring

      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.

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          Charbonneau's shot makes it through and in

          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.

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              Tyler Thorpe scores on a breakaway

              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.

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                  Joshua Nadeau scores off a wrister

                  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.

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                      Xhekaj opens the scoring in the second game

                      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.

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                          Hage doubles the lead

                          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.

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                              Harris completes the tic-tac-toe

                              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.

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                                  Harris jams it in on the backhand

                                  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.

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                                      Nadeau fires it in from the dot

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

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                                          Dell'elce feeds Nadeau for his second of the game

                                          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.

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                                              Thorpe scores from the point

                                              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.

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                                                  Xhekaj scores his 2nd of the game from the hashmarks

                                                  Shootout

                                                  Team
                                                  Player
                                                  Result
                                                  Merrill
                                                  ✅ 
                                                  🔴
                                                  Eriksson
                                                  Sawyer
                                                  ✅ 
                                                  🔴
                                                  Xhekaj
                                                  ✅ 
                                                  Thorpe
                                                  🔴
                                                  Harris
                                                  Mittelstadt
                                                  🔴
                                                  Hage
                                                  Gagnon
                                                  🔴
                                                  Nadeau
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                                                      Merrill, Sawyer, and Xhekaj score in the shootout

                                                      Rewatch the full scrimmage on-demand on YouTube: