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QMJHL: Océanic mock Montreal for playing the trap (video)

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By Neate Sager Yahoo Sports March 22 2011

Earlier in the season, Quebec Remparts head coach Patrick Roy created a stir

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by complaining about a disproportionate amount of dull defensive hockey in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Thursday, Rimouski Océanic head coach Clément Jodoin (pictured) took bemoaning that scourge of creative hockey, the neutral-zone trap, to another level.

Off a centre-ice faceoff against the Montreal Juniors, captain Félix Lefrançois knocked the puck back toward his own zone. It quickly became apparent that if Montreal coach-GM Pascal Vincent's tactics were not attacking on the forecheck, the Océanic were not going to attack offensively, either.

Defencemen Étienne Boutet and Jérôme Gauthier-Leduc and left wing Patrick Delisle-Houde leisurely passed the puck back and forth 16 times as an apparent protest. Finally, the point having been made, apparently, Delisle-Houde tried to send a pass up the boards. The well-drilled Juniors, predictably, intercepted it.

Was that orchestrated? No one's ever heard of a breakout play that called for 16 passes. It looked like something out of a bad soccer game. The French-language sports network RDS has had some fun with it. All this needed was Kent Brockman mumbling, "Holds it … holds it" with the announcer next to him losing his mind.

http://www.comicbeat.com/videos/Cartoon_Videos/Soccer_Riot_-_The_Simpsons

The more powerful Juniors won the game 4-2, but Jodoin's tweak was winning. Major junior hockey is part of the entertainment business, after all.

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