Screaming Eagles drop second straight on road trip

points) sits fourth in the league’s Eastern Conference, just two points ahead of the Moncton Wildcats. Each team has 12 remaining regular-season games. The Screaming Eagles continue their road trip on Wednesday when they take on the Gatineau Olympiques before completing the journey with games Friday and Saturday against the RouynNoranda Huskies and the Vald’Or Foreurs respectively. SHERBROOKE, QUE. – The Cape Breton Screaming Eagles surrendered the game-winning goal with just seven seconds remaining as they fell 4-2 to the Sherbrooke Phoenix on Saturday afternoon in the southern Québec city.

The Screaming Eagles, who are on a six-game road trip to the most distant locations on the Québec Major Junior Hockey League road map, also lost Saturday evening when they were on the wrong end of a 7-2 score line in Drummondville where they played the Voltigeurs.

On Sunday, Cape Breton twice battled back from a goal down in a game that appeared destined for overtime. However, with the score tied at 2-2, Benjamin Tardif scored at 19:53 of the third period to give the home team the win. Ryan DaSilva added an empty net marker four seconds later to inflate the score and seal the deal. Mitchell Balmas scored his team-leading 36th goal of the season and rookie Félix LaFrance notched his seventh of the campaign for Cape Breton. Oliver Okuliar and Jérémy Jacques scored the other Sherbrooke goals.

Screaming Eagles back-up goalie William Grimard earned third star honours as he turned aside 23 of the 26 shots he faced. Dakota Lund-Cornish stopped 30 of the 32 shots he faced for the win. Cape Breton (33-18-1-4, 71