Eric Mahannah Photography: Rebelles de Laval 4 vs Félines du Richelieu 2

Sunday 15 December 2019

Rebelles de Laval 4 vs Félines du Richelieu 2

There's nothing more Canadian than hockey on a Saturday night, so I was more than happy to take a break from unpacking boxes to take in some action. My favourite goaltender, Florence Bouchard-Maynard and her teammates on the Félines du Richelieu were taking the ice against the Rebelles de Laval a few minutes away from the new Head Office. Sadly, the team is having a rough go of things this season. Things got off to a good start as the Félines opened the scoring early in the first period. The Rebelles scored the next two goals and held the lead until the Félines tied things up midway through the third period. Sadly, the old hockey rule of not taking offensive zone penalties late in the game struck as a roughing

penalty with a minute and a half to go in regulation time ended up with the Rebelles scoring the go-ahead goal with just under a minutes left in the game. An empty net goal wrapped everything up for the Rebelles as Your Friendly Neighbourhood Photographer went home with another mark in the loss column. Most of the goals were scored at the opposite end of the rink from where I was and les Félines we're wearing their darker uniforms. That meant many of the saves Florence made ended up being unseen as the puck would disappear in the team colours. With that in mind, I tried to take more photographs of the action, and trying to grab some shots of the rebounds or just before the puck would be stopped. I still went home with a nice little collection of shots, despite the unfortunate result. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 3200 at 168mm and the second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 3200 at 130mm. Here are several more photographs of the action.