Don't Call it a Comeback

Shockers goals against the Expos

The Shockers were left scratching their heads last night as they suffered their fourth straight loss in a come from behind victory by the Expos, 6-5. The Expos, who have been struggling to find their game since being league champs this past summer, were able to capitalize on a handful of Shocker mistakes and turnovers.

Shockers looked solid showing up to Le Rinque to warm-up with their heads much higher than after their 9-1 whooping from the previous night against the District 5 Knights and a game-plan to go along with it.

"We talked and discussed about it all day, we knew what we had to do," Francois Hamelin commented.

For the first time the Shockers actually looked organized during their discussion before the game and actually had a chant to start them off which, believe in team-spirit or not, helped them jump out to a two goal start within the first shift; one from Ben Ducharme and the other from Andrew Stevens respectively.

Shockers would get back to business when Marc Boucher would find the back of the mesh with a blast from the point. Soon after the Expos would get on the board to make it 3-1 before the end of the first period.

Shockers would open up the second with a second goal from Ducharme that would spark up some pushing and shuving, Jeff Jasmin was quick to intervene to calm the situation down. Check out the video!

"I had to make them crackers don't get on my boys like that, that's all," added Jasmin.

However this would be where the Shockers would go downhill making a series of mistakes and key turnovers that energized the Expos comeback. Expos netted back-to-back goals to make it a four goal scoring route giving them a 5-4 edge until the Shockers responded with a 2-on-1 break out with Gary McDermott and Ben Ducharme which the end result was a Ducharme hat-trick with a beauty Bobby Orr-like flying finish.

With the game tied 5-5, it looked like the game was going to shootouts until the recent streak of bad luck returned to haunt the Shockers where an oddly timed turnover landed the ball on the stick of the Expos and they were able to bang it home for the 6-5 victory.

Despite the loss, the Shockers looked to be moving more than their last couple games, maybe still not as much to keep up with teams like FW and District 5 Knights but it was a better effort. Also, the first period defensive man-to-man coverage was a decent effort and for awhile was remanencant of the Shockers squad that took on the Grinders.

Overall the Shockers have their work cut-out for them when they go to take on the Decepticons next Sunday @ 10:30pm to stop the current losing streak.