TROIS-RIVIÈRES -- Sebastien Auger of St. Augustin de Desmaures, Que., posted a 49-save shutout as the UQTR Patriotes survived an offensive onslaught to blank No.8 ranked McGill 2-0 in OUA men's hockey at Le Colisée, Friday.
 
The Patriotes victory marked their second win in four games against McGill this season, with the Redmen holding a 2-1 advantage in regular season play. UQTR improved their lifetime record to 161-86-17 overall against McGill, which has taken six of last the nine meetings.
 
The Redmen had a lopsided 49-16 edge in shots but Auger, a 5-foot-11 education major, stopped everything he faced to earn the victory. It was the first time in two years and a span of 47 games that McGill had been shutout in regular season play since suffering back-to-back whitewashes at Queen's (Nov. 26/16) and versus Ryerson (Dec. 2/16).
 
"We controlled the whole game, every part of it but Auger played well and we just couldn't find a goal. We had 49 shots but we lacked second-chance opportunities around the blue paint -- which we needed on a night like tonight," said McGill head coach Kelly Nobes.

Both UQTR goals were scored by defenceman. Elie Bérubé was credited with the game-winner at 12:59 of the first period and teammate Bruno-Carl Denis netted an insurance marker with a power-play goal at 12:37 of the middle stanza.

Nobes elected to pull goaltender Louis-Philip Guindon for an extra attacker at 14:57 of the third period but to no avail. Guindon, a kinesiology junior from St. Joseph du Lac, Que., saved 14 of 16 shots and was charged with the loss.
 
McGill, which ranks third among the league's 20 teams with 28 goals scored, continued to struggle on the power-play. They went 0-for-4 with the man-advantage and dropped to 17th in the league in that department, connecting on just 10.9 per cent of their 46 PP opportunities.

"We need to get a power-play goal every game and we didn't get one tonight," added Nobes. "We need to have a greater sense of urgency on the power play. We're not shooting the puck enough and need to have more of a shot mentality and right now that's not happening."

The sixth-place Patriotes (5-3-0), who went 1-for-2 on the PP, now sit one point behind fourth-place McGill (5-3-1), which sits just two points shy of division-leading Ottawa (6-0-1).

UQTR will host Concordia (4-3-0) on Saturday (Nov. 3) at 3 p.m., while the Redmen get a week to lick their wounds before playing the Stingers on Friday Nov, 9. at McConnell Arena in a 7 p.m. start.

SCORING SUMMARY


2018-19 OUA MEN'S HOCKEY STANDINGS
 

Rank	West	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Ryerson	9	7	1	1	15	0.833	49	26	3-0-1	7-1-1	104
2	Lakehead	8	6	2	0	12	0.750	28	26	5-0-0	6-2-0	132
3	York	8	5	2	1	11	0.688	32	24	0-1-0	5-2-1	84
4	Brock	8	5	3	0	10	0.625	24	23	0-2-0	5-3-0	87
5	Windsor	8	5	3	0	10	0.625	32	26	1-0-0	5-3-0	123
6	Western	8	4	4	0	8	0.500	22	24	1-0-0	4-4-0	119
7	Guelph	8	2	4	2	6	0.375	23	22	0-3-0	2-4-2	74
8	Toronto	8	2	4	2	6	0.375	20	31	0-2-2	2-4-2	66
9	Waterloo	9	2	5	2	6	0.333	24	42	0-1-0	2-5-2	216
10	Laurier	8	1	7	0	2	0.125	22	34	0-2-0	1-7-0	108
Rank	East	GP	W	L	OTL	PTS	PCT	GF	GA	STK	P10	PIM
1	Ottawa	7	6	0	1	13	0.929	28	13	6-0-1	6-0-1	118
2	Queen's	8	6	2	0	12	0.750	28	19	0-1-0	6-2-0	129
3	Carleton	8	5	1	2	12	0.750	31	22	5-0-2	5-1-2	109
4	McGill	9	5	3	1	11	0.611	32	24	0-1-0	5-3-1	138
5	UOIT	9	5	3	1	11	0.611	33	30	2-0-0	5-3-1	159
6	UQTR	8	5	3	0	10	0.625	22	23	2-0-0	5-3-0	98
7	Concordia	7	4	3	0	8	0.571	23	23	1-0-0	4-3-0	146
8	Laurentian	7	2	5	0	4	0.286	17	28	1-0-0	2-5-0	118
9	Nipissing	8	2	6	0	4	0.250	26	35	0-4-0	2-6-0	137
10	RMC	9	2	7	0	4	0.222	16	37	0-6-0	2-7-0	173