The following is the transcript of tonight’s live blog of Game 2 of the QMJHL semifinals between the Halifax Mooseheads and Gatineau Olympiques.

FIRST PERIOD
* The game isn’t an entertaining one in the early going, as it’s extremely tight-checking and neither offensively-gifted team is getting many chances.

* The Mooseheads continue to get into trouble against the Claude Giroux-Paul Byron-Matthew Pistilli line, although the Olympiques aren’t converting.

* Mooseheads defenceman Guillaume Monast was almost burned on a bad turnover that eventually ended up on the stick of Claude Giroux, but Mark Yetman made an outstanding save to keep the game scoreless.

* The power plays of both teams are doing very little. Each team had three chances each, and the score at the end of a period is 0-0. Halifax has an 11-7 edge in shots.

SECOND PERIOD

* Brad Marchand is guilty of over-handling the puck at the offensive blue line and it almost costs the Mooseheads about a minute in. Mark Yetman bails Marchand out with a great save after a passing play on a Gatineau 2-on-1.

* The Giroux-Byron combination continues to be dangerous and does a great job pressuring the Mooseheads’ defenceman into penalties and turnovers.

* David Bouchard takes a high-sticking penalty at 12:16. This isn’t a good penalty for Bouchard, and he might not see another shift because of it.

* GOAL GAT (1-0 Gat) The Olympiques draw first blood on the power play. Matthew Stinziani fires a pass from behind the net to an open Alexandre Quesnel in front, and Quesnel beats Yetman point blank with a quick shot at 9:41.

* Yetman did a good job to fight off a tricky shot from Claude Giroux with his glove. Giroux stickhandled around a couple of players to generate the chance.

* With eight minutes to go, Jakub Voracek and Logan MacMillan make great plays to give Colby Pridham an open net on a 2-on-1, but he fans on the chance.

* Daniel Smith takes a boarding penalty at 13:08. The Mooseheads’ fourth line barely sees the ice and has taken back-to-back minors.

* GOAL GAT (2-0 Gat) Paul Byron converts on the power play with his third of the series and 11th of the playoffs. The Buffalo Sabres pick skates over the blue line and tees up a slap shot from between the tops of the faceoff ...[next page]