When I look at our journey so far, I realize that our seven-game series win against Quebec in the first round was very important for us. We learned a lot from that and it helped us to be better for the rest of the playoffs.
We came close to disaster in facing elimination twice against the Remparts but survived and we learned from that, so that it won't happen again.
In the series against Drummondville, we lost the first game and were in trouble in the second before turning the tide.
We trailed 2-0 and 3-1 in that game. I scored a hat trick to tie the game 3-3 and the whole team regrouped until Arnaud Durandeau (New York Islanders) scored in double overtime to give us a 5-4 win. That's when we took control of the series and we maintained it until the end.
We are once again underdogs against Rouyn-Noranda, the best team in Canada during the season. Most of the pundits favor them, but that's part of the game and everyone is entitled to their opinion.
We focus on what we can do and remember that the game is played on the ice. Anyway, I suspect that the fact that we have a lot of English-speaking players on the team helps us to overlook all that because they can't read the predictions in French!
Things are going well, personally, and it will be a good challenge for me to continue my momentum against the Huskies and their goalie Samuel Harvey, who has the top playoff statistics entering our series (12-2-0, 1.67 GAA, .928 save percentage, three shutouts).
Thanks for reading this month. Here's to a great final!
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