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Once again battered today, the Rocket faces elimination Tuesday night
Félix Forget
Once again battered today, the Rocket faces elimination Tuesday night
Credit: This afternoon, the Laval Rocket were back in action in the LAH Eastern finals. Trailing 0-2 in the series, the Habs’ club-school needed a win against the Checkers. And despite two rough starts to the series, Cayden Primeau was in front of the Rocket net. Also absent was Laurent Dauphin, who didn’t make the trip. […]

This afternoon, the Laval Rocket were back in action in the LAH Eastern finals. Trailing 0-2 in the series, the Habs' club-school needed a win against the Checkers.

And despite two rough starts to the series, Cayden Primeau was in front of the Rocket net.

Also absent was Laurent Dauphin, who didn't make the trip. Luke Tuch took his place in the line-up.

And quickly, the story of that game was Cayden Primeau… for all the wrong reasons. The Rocket didn't have a bad first period, but they still went back to the locker room trailing by a goal.

Hard to blame Primeau for that one, though.

But at the start of the second period, the chain came completely off the ice. And even though his defense didn't always help him, the goalie seriously struggled.

He was kicked out of the game after allowing three quick goals early in the second period.

Trailing by four goals, the Rocket were already well out of the game.

Jared Davidson gave his club some life on the powerplay following the goalie change… but it was (way) too little and (way) too late.

The Checkers added a fifth goal late in the second period… and in the third period, there was very little action to speak of.

Once again, the Rocket suffered a (heavy) defeat, losing 5-1.

Game #4 will take place on Tuesday night, and the Rocket will face elimination. And we agree that it would be quite surprising if Jacob Fowler, who didn't do too badly in relief this afternoon, wasn't in front of the Rocket net for the occasion.


Extension

Since the start of the series, Primeau has allowed 12 goals on 53 shots, good for an efficiency rate of 0.774.

This is a far cry from his performance in the Eastern Final in 2022, when he allowed just 18 goals on 277 shots, an efficiency rate of 0.935.

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