Eric Mahannah Photography: Félines 3

Thursday, 4 April 2019

Félines 3 - Rapides 2

It's time for some play-off hockey. My favourite goaltender, Florence Bouchard-Maynard and her teammates with Les Félines du Saint-Laurent find themselves in a series for the Regional Championship this week against their longtime rival, Les Rapides de Champlain. On the line in this best-of-five series is a chance to participate in the Dodge Cup tournament later this month. Game One was won by Les Rapides and I, despite the terrible record the team has when I attend their games, got an invitation to shoot the action of Game Two. The teams traded first and second period goals before a scoreless third period led to overtime. Both goaltenders made some big saves as neither team scored in overtime

which meant that a shoot-out would be needed to settle the game. Both teams failed to score on their first two attempts before Félines put one past the Rapides goaltender on the third attempt. Florence then shut the door on the third Rapides skater to win the game and even the series at one game a piece. The first photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/1250sec, ISO 1600 at 120mm and cropped to 12" x 4" for a widescreen look. The second photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/1600sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm and the third photograph was taken at f/2.8, 1/2000sec, ISO 1600 at 200mm. Here are some more photographs of the action.