MONCTON, N.B. - The Acadia Axemen's 9 game win streak came to an end on Saturday evening at the hands of the U de M Aigles Bleus, when Moncton's Danny Chiasson scored in overtime to give his team a 4-3 victory. The loss was despite a heroic third period comeback from Acadia, who were down 3-1 with just 5 minutes remaining in the third frame; they scored two late goals to push the game to overtime and earn an ever important point in the standings.
Moncton (8-9-2) jumped out to a 1-0 lead at 12:38 of the first period when Thierry Comtois beat Acadia netminder Brandon Glover, with assists from Alex Emond and Joel Blanchard. Before the goal could finish being announced, the Aigles Bleus added a second goal just 1:15 later as Jean Francois Plante scored from Alex and Allain Saulnier. That's the way the period ended, with the home team leading 2-0.
The Axemen had the only goal of the 2nd period, when Travis Randell scored his fifth of the season, as he banged home a loose puck, past Moncton goaltender Adrien Lemay, cutting the U de M lead to 2-1. Taylor Makin and Chance Braid picked up the assists on the goal.
The Axemen, with great hopes of getting the equalizer as they came out for the third period, had the tables turned as it was Moncton who scored just :30 seconds into the period, as Jean Francois Plante scored his second on the night, with help from Allain Saulnier.
The Axemen found life on the powerplay at 15:22 as AUS top scoring defenceman Matthew Pufahl found the back of the net, from Mike Cazzola and Brett Thompson to cut the deficit to 3-2.
Just :56 seconds later, 2nd year forward Boston Leier scored his 11th of the season on a wrap around to square the game at three. The assists went to Geoff Schemitsch and Brandon Glover.
The game headed to overtime, where Acadia's OT specialist Kyle Farrell found himself in all alone on Lemay, but this time Farrell, who has 4 OT winners this season, couldn't beat the Moncton netminder. Just seconds later, Acadia turned the puck over in their own end and Jean Francois Plante found Danny Chiasson who beat Glover to give the Aigles Bleus the win.
The Axemen outshot Moncton 41-32 on the night, while Acadia went 1-3 on the powerplay, while Moncton was 0-4.
Acadia saw first year defenseman Liam Maaskant return to the lineup after missing the first 3 games of the new year with injury. Second year forward Remy Giftopoulos will return to the lineup on Tuesday after serving a 4 game suspension.
Acadia returns to the ice on Tuesday night, as they travel to Halifax to face the Dalhousie Tigers at 7pm at the Halifax Forum.
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