MONTREAL, Que. (January 12, 2018) – The Queen's Gaels took on the No. 5 McGill Redmen on Friday night in Montreal and took a tough 3-0 loss. The Redmen outshot the Gaels 45-18 on the way to the decisive shutout victory over the Gaels. The Gaels were coming off a very successful weekend in which they swept the UOIT Ridgebacks but were unable to get anything going against the Redmen.
 
GAME FLOW
The first period was a scoreless affair, as the Redmen outshot the Gaels 15-6. Kevin Bailie (Belleville, Ont.) was very strong in goal for Queen's to keep the game tied 0-0 heading into the second.
 
Queen's was able to survive the first period despite being outshot heavily. They were not able to keep it up in the second as McGill opened the scoring at 11:34 on a goal by Maximillian Daigle. The Redmen would add another tally at 17:04 on a Jerome Verrier goal to extend their lead to 2-0 heading into the third period.
 
Early in the third period the Gaels would take a penalty and allow the Redmen a power play opportunity. Christophe Lalonde buried one on the man advantage to give McGill a 3-0 lead that they would not relinquish.
 
Louis-Philip Guindon picked up the 18 save shutout for the victory in net for McGill while Bailie took the loss in net for Queen's, making 42 saves.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
0/4- Queen's could not capitalize on their power play chances tonight, going 0 for 4
 
UP NEXT
Queen's is back on the ice tomorrow night in Montreal as they take on the Concordia Stingers. Puck drop is set for 7:30pm and can be seen live on OUA.tv.