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MONTREAL -- Rookie goaltender Jacob Chouinard of Sherbrooke, Que., made 41 saves to register a shutout in his first career regular season start as McGill skated to a 3-0 victory over the UQTR Patriotes in OUA men's hockey at McConnell Arena, Saturday.

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Chouinard, a 6-foot-1, 170-pound education freshman, joined the Redmen this fall after playing for Val d'Or, Rimouski and Sherbrooke in the QMJHL. He also had a three-game tryout in the American Hockey League with the Hamilton Bulldogs, farm team of the Montreal Canadiens.

It was the team's third shutout in as many games, with the previous two goose-eggs going to Andrew Flemming. It also matched a feat last accomplished by the Redmen in 2005, after three straight whitewashes on the road at Ryerson (Nov. 5), Queen's (Nov. 11) and RMC (Nov. 12), That season, McGill established a CIS men's hockey record for longest shutout sequence, blanking the opposition for 191 minutes and 18 seconds. That record was broken last year, when Alberta posted a shutout streak of 219:57.

McGill, which was last scored upon in a 3-2 sudden-death overtime loss at Ryerson, Oct. 11, can break that lofty standard by playing shutout hockey for 39:58 in their next game at Carleton on Oct. 25.

The Redmen, who had a 43-41 edge in shots, successfully killed off all three UQTR power plays and have now held the opposition scoreless in 23 consecutive man-advantage situations.

A goal by defenceman Jan Kaminsky, son of former NHL player Yan Kaminsky, at 8:06 of the opening period, stood up as the winning tally.

David Rose added an insurance marker less than three minutes later. The teams were scoreless in the middle stanza and Ryan McKiernan, a blueliner from White Plains, N.Y., iced the win with a goal at 7:47 of the final period.

"We set the tone early in the game and that's part of our identity this year being a physical and aggressive team," said Kelly Nobes, in his fourth season as head coach of the Redmen. We had two defencemen score tonight and they did a nice job up top of getting pucks to the net through screens. We had good net-front presence and that resulted in our goals tonight."

McGill sits atop the OUA East Division with a 3-0-1 record, while UQTR dropped to 1-3-0.

It was McGill's sixth lifetime shutout over the Pats and improved their overall head-to-head series record to 72-147-17 but the Redmen have posted a 19-9-0 mark in the last 28 meetings.

REDMEN RAP: The Friends of McGill Hockey alumni weekend, which coincided with McGill's Homecoming celebrations, drew many former Redmen out to McConnell Arena... Among those familiar faces spotted in the crowd was Patrick Belzile, who co-captained the team last year, along with Ric Walker, Johnny Harris, Ken Morin, Paul Barber, David Lizotte, Dr. Jay McMullan, Mike Farmer, Dr. James Sproule, Luc Vaillancourt, Matt Humes, Mathieu Poitras, Ken Covo, Sebastian Langlois, David Gourde, Jocelyn Perreault, Simon Marcotte-Legare, Charles Gauthier, Eric L'Italien, Chris Churchill-Smith, Patrice Godin, Dan Gubian and Mike Nelson.

SOURCE:

Earl Zukerman
McGill Sports Info Office
514-398-7012


SCORING SUMMARY
UQTR 0 at McGill 3
(Saturday, October 19, 2013 - McConnell Arena)

GOALS BY PERIOD:
UQTR 0-0-0 -- 0
McGill 2-0-1 -- 3

1st Period-
1, McGill, Jan Kaminsky 1 (David Rose, Cedric McNicoll), 8:06.
2, McGill, David Rose 1 (Neil Blunden, Patrick Delisle-Houde), 10:39.

Penalties-Prokop Mcg (checking to the head, 10-minute misconduct), 4:19.
 
2nd Period-
(No Scoring).

Penalties-Barnard Mcg (hooking), 0:58; Martin Uqtr (tripping), 7:27; Hotte Uqtr (dble minor for high sticking), 9:19.

3rd Period-
3, McGill, Ryan McKiernan 2 (Max Le Sieur, Jonathan Brunelle), 7:47.

Penalties-Tremblay Uqtr (tripping), 8:44; Levesque Mcg (elbowing), 11:50; Austrie Uqtr (tripping), 19:27.

Shots on Goal-
UQTR 15-8-18 -- 41.
McGill 14-18-11-- 43.

Power-Play Opportunities-
UQTR 0 / 3;
McGill 0 / 5.

Goalies-
UQTR, Gelinas (L, 0-2-0, 43 shots-40 saves; 60:00).
McGill, Chouinard (W, 1-0-0, 41 shots-41 saves; 60:00).

Attendance: 344
Start: 7:02 PM
End: 9:16 PM
Length: 2:14

Referees-Jason Pyke, Alexandre Cote.
Linesmen-Maxime Mongeon, Maxime Lasalle.

MOLSON CUP THREE STARS:
1. MCG - 30 Jacob Chouinard
2. MCG - 7 David Rose
3. MCG - 14 Jan Kaminsky