Interesting Numbers 2014 FINAL ROUND Game#7
It all comes down to this. The 2014 President Cup Final will finally be settled tonight, in game 7 of the series. The Val-d’Or Foreurs will make one last trek to Baie-Comeau to take on the Drakkar tonight at 7:30 pm. You can catch all the action live on TVA Sports or on the Telus Webcast. The winner will then back their bags for London, Ontario to represent the QMJHL at the MasterCard Memorial Cup.
Download the PDF of the President Cup, names on the Cup and the Guy Lafleur Trophy
President Cup Final
BAIE-COMEAU vs. VAL-D’OR
Series tied 3-3
Game 1 – 2014-05-02 | 7:30 pm | BAIE-COMEAU 3, Val-d’Or 0
Game 2 – 2014-05-03 | 4 pm | Val-d’Or 4, BAIE-COMEAU 3 OT
Game 3 – 2014-05-06 | 7:30 pm | VAL-D’OR 5, Baie-Comeau 2
Game 4 – 2014-05-07 | 7:30 pm | Baie-Comeau 4, VAL-D’OR 3 OT
Game 5 – 2014-05-09 | 7:30 pm | BAIE-COMEAU 6, Val-d’Or 5
Game 6 – 2014-05-11 | 4 pm | VAL-D’OR 6, Baie-Comeau 3
Game 7 – 2014-05-13 | 7:30 pm | Val-d’Or @ Baie-Comeau
• SERIES PROFILE
• COMPARISONS (REG.S.)
• Roster… BAC | VDO
• STATS | big report (PLAYOFFS)
• STATS | big report (REG.S.)
• Box Office… BAC | VDO
QMJHL PLAYOFF HISTORY
- This marks the eighth time the President Cup has come down to a seventh and deciding game. The last time was in 2009 when Drummondville downed Shawinigan in Game 7.
- Of those previous Game 7’s, six have been won by the home team for a winning percentage of 86%. The only road team to have ever won in Game 7 was in 2003 when Hull upset Halifax.
- Since 2007 however, road teams have fared well in overall Game 7’s in the QMJHL playoffs, winning 69% of seventh games (11/16).
- As far as Val-d’Or is concerned, they’ve played in six Game 7’s, compiling a 3-3 record in those deciding games including their series win over the Mooseheads which they pulled off on the road.
- On the Baie-Comeau side, they’ve played in a pair of Game 7’s in their history, posting a 1-1 mark with their only victory coming in the semi-final over Blainville-Boisbriand.
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QMJHL PLAYOFFS CHAMPIONS |
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Trophy – PRESIDENT CUP |
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| PLAYOFFS | City | Team’s name | OPPONENT | RESULT |
| 2013 | Halifax | Mooseheads | Baie-Comeau | 4 @ 1 |
| 2012 | Saint John | Sea Dogs | Rimouski | 4 @ 0 |
| 2011 | Saint John | Sea Dogs | Gatineau | 4 @ 1 |
| 2010 | Moncton | Wildcats | Saint John | 4 @ 2 |
| 2009 | Drummondville | Voltigeurs | Shawinigan | 4 @ 3 |
| 2008 | Gatineau | Olympiques | Rouyn-Noranda | 4 @ 1 |
| 2007 | Lewiston | MAINEiacs | Val-d’Or | 4 @ 0 |
| 2006 | Moncton | Wildcats | Québec | 4 @ 2 |
| 2005 | Rimouski | Océanic | Halifax | 4 @ 0 |
| 2004 | Gatineau | Olympiques | Moncton | 4 @ 1 |
| 2003 | Hull | Olympiques | Halifax | 4 @ 3 |
| 2002 | Victoriaville | Tigres | Acadie-Bathurst | 4 @ 2 |
| 2001 | Val-d’Or | Foreurs | Acadie-Bathurst | 4 @ 0 |
| 2000 | Rimouski | Océanic | Hull | 4 @ 1 |
| 1999 | Acadie-Bathurst | Titan | Hull | 4 @ 3 |
| 1998 | Val D’Or | Foreurs | Rimouski | 4 @ 0 |
| 1997 | Hull | Olympiques | Chicoutimi | 4 @ 0 |
| 1996 | Granby | Prédateurs | Beauport | 4 @ 1 |
| 1995 | Hull | Olympiques | Laval | 4 @ 1 |
| 1994 | Chicoutimi | Saguenéens | Laval | 4 @ 2 |
| 1993 | Laval | Titan | Sherbrooke | 4 @ 1 |
| 1992 | Verdun | Collège Français | Trois-Rivières | 4 @ 3 |
| 1991 | Chicoutimi | Saguenéens | Drummondville | 4 @ 0 |
| 1990 | Laval | Titan | Victoriaville | 4 @ 0 |
| 1989 | Laval | Titan | Victoriaville | 4 @ 3 |
| 1988 | Hull | Olympiques | Drummondville | 4 @ 3 |
| 1987 | Longueuil | Chevaliers | Chicoutimi | 4 @ 1 |
| 1986 | Hull | Olympiques | Drummondville | 5 @ 0 |
| 1985 | Verdun | Canadien Junior | Chicoutimi | 4 @ 0 |
| 1984 | Laval | Voisins | Longueuil | 4 @ 2 |
| 1983 | Verdun | Junior | Longueuil | 4 @ 1 |
| 1982 | Sherbrooke | Castors | Trois-Rivières | 4 @ 0 |
| 1981 | Cornwall | Royals | Trois-Rivières | 4 @ 1 |
| 1980 | Cornwall | Royals | Sherbrooke | 4 @ 2 |
| 1979 | Trois-Rivières | Draveurs | Sherbrooke | 4 @ 0 |
| 1978 | Trois-Rivières | Draveurs | Montréal | 4 @ 0 |
| 1977 | Sherbrooke | Castors | Québec | 4 @ 1 |
| 1976 | Québec | Remparts | Sherbrooke | 4 @ 2 |
| 1975 | Sherbrooke | Castors | Laval | 4 @ 1 |
| 1974 | Québec | Remparts | Sorel | 4 @ 2 |
| 1973 | Québec | Remparts | Cornwall | 4 @ 3 |
| 1972 | Cornwall | Royals | Québec | 4 @ 2 (1) |
| 1971 | Québec | Remparts | Shawinigan | 4 @ 1 |
| 1970 | Québec | Remparts | St-Jérôme | 4 @ 0 |
- Over the past three seasons from 2011 through 2013, the President Cup champion has also been the regular season champ. Should Baie-Comeau turn that same trick this year, they would become the 26th team to do so over the league’s 45 playoff seasons!
- Should the Drakkar win this huge Game 7 it would mark their first President Cup championship in team history. They of course fell just short a year ago losing in five games against the eventual Memorial Cup champion Halifax Mooseheads
- Eric Veilleux (BAC) – Now one win shy of his 64th career coaching win in the playoffs, he is about to join Richard Martel at No. 5 on the all-time list. His next win will also be his first in the President Cup having also won as a player with Laval in 1993. His assistant coach Claude Bouchard is gunning for his second President Cup ring, having also won one as the Foreurs’ head coach in 2001.
- The Val-d’Or Foreurs boast a pair of President Cup titles in their history thanks to a pair of Finals sweeps over Rimouski in 1998 and Acadie-Bathurst in 2001.
- It’s also worth noting that current Val-d’Or general manager Alexandre Rouleau raised the President Cup a player with the Foreurs in 2001. Same goes for new assistant coach Steve Begin how win with the Foreurs as team captain in 1998.
- Mario Durocher (VDO) – The Foreurs head coach won the President Cup in his first season behind the bench with the Victoriaville Tigers in 2002.
- Val-d’Or has already tied the league record for overtime games in a single playoff year with seven. The Foreurs have a 3-4 record in sudden death this spring.
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| Most overtime games in one playoff season |
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| Pos | Team | Season | Record |
| 1 | Longueuil Chevaliers | 82-83 | 7 |
| 1 | Chicoutimi Sagueneens | 93-94 | 7 |
| 1 | Val-d’Or Foreurs | 06-07 | 7 |
| 1 | Chicoutimi Saguenéens | 11-12 | 7 |
| 1 | Val-d’Or Foreurs | 13-14 | 7 |
- In this year’s race for the GUY LAFLEUR TROPHY awarded to the QMJHL PLAYOF MVP, who will follow Jonathan Drouin who earned the honour with Halifax in 2013?
- The last six winners have been forwards. The last goalie to earn it was Jonathan Bernier (Lewiston, 2007). Since it was first handed out in 1978, only 3 defencemen have ever won the Guy Lafleur Trophy with the last one being Danny Groulx (Victoriaville, 2002).
- The following is a list of past winners of the prestigious award.
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| SEASON | WINNER | TEAM |
| 2012-13 | Drouin, Jonathan | Halifax |
| 2011-12 | Coyle, Charles | Saint John |
| 2010-11 | Huberdeau, Jonathan | Saint John |
| 2009-10 | Bourque, Gabriel | Moncton |
| 2008-09 | Riendeau, Yannick | Drummondville |
| 2007-08 | Giroux, Claude | Gatineau |
| 2006-07 | Bernier, Jonathan | Lewiston |
| 2005-06 | Karsums, Martin | Moncton |
| 2004-05 | Crosby, Sidney | Rimouski |
| 2003-04 | Talbot, Maxime | Gatineau |
| 2002-03 | Talbot, Maxime | Hull |
| 2001-02 | Groulx, Danny | Victoriaville |
| 2000-01 | Gamache, Simon | Val-d’Or |
| 1999-00 | Richards, Brad | Rimouski |
| 1998-99 | Benoit, Mathieu | Acadie-Bathurst |
| 1997-98 | Dumont, Jean-Pierre | Val-d’Or |
| 1996-97 | Bronsard, Christian | Hull |
| 1995-96 | Doig, Jason | Granby |
| 1994-95 | Théodore, José | Hull |
| 1993-94 | Fichaud, Eric | Chicoutimi |
| 1992-93 | Fernandez, Emmanuel | Laval |
| 1991-92 | Guillet, Robert | Verdun |
| 1990-91 | Potvin, Félix | Chicoutimi |
| 1989-90 | Chalifoux, Denis | Laval |
| 1988-89 | Audette, Donald | Laval |
| 1987-88 | Saumier, Marc | Hull |
| 1986-87 | Saumier, Marc | Longueuil |
| 1985-86 | Côté, Sylvain & Robitaille, Luc | Hull |
| 1985-86 | Robitaille, Luc & Côté, Sylvain | Hull |
| 1984-85 | Lemieux, Claude | Verdun |
| 1983-84 | Lemieux, Mario | Laval |
| 1982-83 | LaFontaine, Pat | Verdun |
| 1981-82 | Morissette, MIchel | Sherbrooke |
| 1980-81 | Lemieux, Alain | Trois-Rivières |
| 1979-80 | Hawerchuk, Dale | Cornwall |
| 1978-79 | Sauvé, Jean-François | Trois-Rivières |
| 1977-78 | David, Richard | Trois-Rivières |
- Anthony Mantha – To cap his sensational season, Mantha has notched 91% of his playoff goals have come at either even-strength or shorthanded (21 of 23). See table…
| Among all the 20-goal scorers in QMJHL Playoffs’ History | |||||||
| MOST EVEN-STRENGTH GOALS in a Playoffs year | |||||||
| Player | Year | Team | GP | GOALS | PPG | ESG or SHG | %ESG |
| Sean McKenna | 1982 | Sherbrooke | 22 | 26 | 2 | 24 | 92% |
| Mario Lemieux | 1984 | Laval | 14 | 29 | 7 | 22 | 76% |
| Anthony Mantha | 2014 | Val-d’Or | 23 | 23 | 2 | 21 | 91% |
| JP Dumont | 1998 | Val-d’Or | 19 | 31 | 12 | 19 | 61% |
| Réal Cloutier | 1974 | Québec | 16 | 26 | 7 | 19 | 73% |
| Guy Lafleur | 1971 | Québec | 14 | 22 | 3 | 19 | 86% |
| Guy Rouleau | 1986 | Hull | 15 | 23 | 4 | 19 | 83% |
| Mathieu Brunelle | 2003 | Hull | 20 | 22 | 3 | 19 | 86% |
| Gary MacGregor | 1973 | Cornwall | 16 | 26 | 8 | 18 | 69% |
| Guy Lafleur | 1970 | Québec | 15 | 25 | 7 | 18 | 72% |
| Michel Létourneau | 1971 | Shawinigan | 15 | 20 | 2 | 18 | 90% |
- Behold the numbers posted by Guillaume Gelinas (VDO) this spring as he has put up 11 multipoint games this spring. With 33 points, he has become only the 14th blueliner in league history to crack the 30-point mark in one playoff year. He now finds himself one point back of Sylvain Cote for No. 6 on the QMJHL’s all-time list. In Game 6, he also set a new Foreurs franchise record by surpassing the previous club-mark of 31 points set by Kristopher Letang in 2007.
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| POS | Player | Team | Season | Record |
| 1 | Frédéric Bouchard | Chicoutimi | 96-97 | 51 |
| 2 | Pierre Sévigny | Trois-Rivières | 81-82 | 40 |
| 3 | Danny Groulx | Victoriaville | 88-89 | 39 |
| 4 | Paul-André Bouthillier | Sherbrooke | 81-82 | 38 |
| 5 | Derrick Walser | Rimouski | 97-98 | 36 |
| 6 | Sylvain Côté | Hull | 85-86 | 34 |
| 7 | Pierre Sévigny | Trois-Rivières | 80-81 | 33 |
| 7 | Yves Racine | Victoriaville | 88-89 | 33 |
| 7 | Guillaume Gélinas | Val-d’Or | 13-14 | 33 |
- Jeremy Gregoire (BAC) – With 4 goals and 10 points in this series alone, he has been on fire this spring and last Wednesday he became the Drakkar’s all-time leading playoff scorer with his 15th goal, surpassing Yanick Lehoux and Valentin Zykov who each managed 14. Gregoire continues to raise the bar on that record with now 17 postseason markers on his resume.
- Gregoire and teammate Charles Hudon each have three game-winning goals this spring for the Drakkar, tying the franchise record in that department.
- Valentin Zykov (BAC) – He missed out on setting a new team record by just one point when he exploded for five points in Game 5 of this series on May 9. Check out P.C. Labrie’s team record.
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Player | Team | Season | Record | |||||
| 1 | Jérémy Grégoire | Baie-Comeau | 2012>>2014 | 17 | |||||
| 2 | Valentin Zykov | Baie-Comeau | 2012>>2014 | 17 | |||||
| 3 | Yanick Lehoux | Baie-Comeau | 1999>>2002 | 14 | |||||
| 4 | Marco Charpentier | Baie-Comeau | 1999>>2001 | 12 | |||||
| 4 | Robin Leblanc | Baie-Comeau | 1999>>2004 | 12 | |||||
- Charles Hudon and Alexandre Ranger (BAC) – With 10 goals apiece this postseason, they are both now one goal shy of the Drakkar club record:
| Most Goals by a player for the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, one playoff season | |||||
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Player | Team | Season | Record | |
| 1 | Petr Straka | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 11 | |
| 2 | Valentin Zykov | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 10 | |
| 2 | Charles Hudon | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 10 | |
| 2 | Alexandre Ranger | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 10 | |
| 5 | Marco Charpentier | Baie-Comeau | 00-01 | 9 | |
| 5 | Jérémy Grégoire | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 9 | |
| 5 | Gabryel Paquin-Boudreau | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 9 | |
| 5 | Maxime St-Cyr | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 9 | |
| 9 | Yanick Lehoux | Baie-Comeau | 00-01 | 8 | |
| 9 | Pierre-Cédrick Labrie | Baie-Comeau | 06-07 | 8 | |
| 9 | Jérémy Grégoire | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 8 | |
| Most points by a player for the Baie-Comeau Drakkar, one playoff season | |||||
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Player | Team | Season | Record | |
| 1 | Petr Straka | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 25 | |
| 2 | Yanick Lehoux | Baie-Comeau | 00-01 | 24 | |
| 3 | Valentin Zykov | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 22 | |
| 4 | Carl Gélinas | Baie-Comeau | 12-13 | 21 | |
| 4 | Jérémy Grégoire | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 21 | |
| 4 | Charles Hudon | Baie-Comeau | 13-14 | 21 | |
- The goalies have come up big in this series even though the scorelines can be misleading at first glance. The goals have also increased as the series has gone on. In fact there have been 20 combined goals scored over the last two games. (VDO 5 @ BAC 6 | BAC 3 @ VDO 6)
- Foreurs’ netminder Antoine Bibeau has been busy in this series, averaging 39 shots against per game, but he has still managed to maintain a .918 save percentage and 3.16 goals against average against the Drakkar.
- In the opposite crease, Philippe Cadorette picked up his third shutout of these playoffs in the opening game of this series. The Drakkar goalie still boasts the top goals against average in the league this postseason (2.19 in 21 games). Over the six games of this series, his GAA is very similar to his counterpart Bibeau (3.32) while facing an average of 32 shots. Cadorette now sits third all-time in league history with 31 career playoff wins, trailing Roberto Luongo (38) and Zachary Fucale (35).
MASTERCARD MEMORIAL CUP
The action will get underway on Friday, May 16 as the QMJHL representative will take part in the tourney’s opening game that night.
- On the OHL’s side, we already know who their representatives will be, including the host London Knights who will meet the QMJHL champs on Friday. Joining the Knights are the 2014 OHL Champion Guelph Storm who knocked off the North Bay Battalion in the playoffs final.
- The WHL representative punched their ticket to the MasterCard Memorial Cup thanks to a thrilling 4-2 Game 7 victory by the Edmonton Oil Kings over the Portland Winterhawks on Monday night in Portland. This marks the second WHL title for Edmonton in the past three seasons.
So there is one piece of the puzzle left. Enjoy Game 7 in Baie-Comeau, everyone!
