By Kris Smith
The opening period saw the visitors quickly find their feet and begin to pin the Stars into their own end as they piled on some early pressure.
Dundee’s defences were holding and they were not afraid to put their bodies on the line to stop the puck reaching goaltender, Jarrett Fiske but eventually in the fifth minute, the Patriotes stopped the Stars from clearing their own zone and Pierre-Olivier Roy managed to get the puck to Felix Lafrance at the back post for a tap-in.
The Taysiders responded well and began to get forward more but the rest of the first period would be a physical, end-to-end battle as both teams chased the next goal and Dundee also produced a solid penalty kill halfway through the opening stanza.
In the second period, the home team again faced an up-hill battle as they Canadians doubled their lead in the 25th minute with a powerplay goal as Charles Beaudoin was picked out by Zachary Gravel as he crashed towards the Dundee net and turned the puck past Fiske.
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All images: Derek Black.
