(Yes. Eight. Not a typo.)
For their first game of the season Oromocto arrived in Bathurst with confidence, optimism, and a plan.
Bathurst took all three of those things, stomped on them, and then used them to scrape the ice clean.
The Angry Ducks — apparently still furious that “The Mighty Ducks” never got a darker, gritty reboot — absolutely dismantled the Senators in an 8-1 crime scene that investigators are still examining.
Dylan Holloway opened scoring by reminding everyone that defense is optional. Andrei Svechnikov doubled the lead moments later, establishing a theme: Ducks score, Senators watch.
Sebastian Aho gave Oromocto fans a brief miracle at 15:35, making it 2-1 and giving the crowd a flicker of belief.
That flicker was snuffed out like a candle in a wind tunnel.
Bathurst scored three unanswered, including Steve Yzerman — because nothing says chaos like seeing Yzerman lighting the lamp in 2025. Jack Quinn added one, too, leaving Oromocto’s defenders to wonder what sport they’d trained for.
Anthony Beauvillier then decided if he wasn’t going to score goals, he might as well leave early. A double minor and a game misconduct — he hit the showers before the Ducks hit five.
5-1 Ducks
Morale: missing, presumed dead.
Bathurst added three more because… well, why not?
Pelletier, Ekblad, and Tkachuk brought the goal tally to a number usually reserved for basketball.
Oromocto? They took shots — 26 in total — most of which Blackwood treated like gentle suggestions.
Oromocto Senators
Goalies:
Bathurst Angry Ducks
The Senators eventually scored… right after Bathurst firmly established ownership of the game, the arena, and possibly the entire city.
Bathurst scored a touchdown and a field goal.
Oromocto will try to forget this one.
Bathurst will frame it and hang it in the hallway with “Live, Laugh, Dominate” underneath.
10/28/2025 - 377 words
