[Maritime Q-Scout]

Observations from the first period:

Poirier is clearly a very coachable player. He's always where he needs to be. I couldn't just check the right wing to see if he was on the ice, he could have been anywhere. But it was part of the plan (he wasn't playing selfishly) as he was always covered. That said when another player went out of position he was there to cover. Great to see!

He has some jets. He does this weird little hop as he turns them on.

He has good vision but clearly was fighting the puck. His passes were just off, Gus control just wasn't quite there. He never had a good handle on his breakaway. All of Gatineu seems just a bit off handling the puck (not Cape Breton though so it can't be the ice). Probably the insane bus ride to the end of the earth (aka Gatineau to Sydney).

Gatineau's goal came off a play where a penalty should have been called against them. It was blanant and in front of the referee during a partial breakaway.

Cape Breton put some garbage into the net. So it's 3-1 good guys after 1.

I'm behind the Gatineau bench so hopefully I'll get some video next period.