The Edmundston Blizzard took care of business on home ice on Saturday night, beating the Pictou County Weeks Crushers 6-3 to take a 2-0 lead in the Metalfab MHL Cup Final.
The Blizzard took control in the 1st period, jumping out to an early lead as Darien Thomson opened the scoring just 25 seconds into the game. Jérémy D’Astous scored at 16:57 on the powerplay and Will Allen added a goal at 18:07.
Lucas Canning got the Crushers on the board with a powerplay goal at 5:08 of the 2nd period, but D’Astous scored a powerplay goal of his own just 40 seconds later. Pictou County would cut the lead to 4-3 by the end of the period. Logan O’Neil scored on the powerplay aat 9:05 and Canning got his second of the game 28 seconds later.
D’Astous completed the hat trick at 5:47 and Philippe Collette rounded out the scoring for the evening at 7:37.
The series now shifts back to New Glasgow for Games 3 and 4 on Wednesday and Thursday. The games will be available on FloHockey as well as Eastlink Community TV.