The Lions de Trois-Rivières spent week five of the ECHL calendar down south, enjoying a week of sun and sweeping the South Division leaders, the Florida Everblades, in quite the surprising result, extending their win streak to six games.
When the ECHL regular-season calendar was first unveiled, the three-game series against the Everblades was the one that I had circled on my calendar as the series to watch, as it would be the first out-of-division test for the Lions, and against, historically, one of the top ECHL teams. It would really set the expectations and tone for the remainder of the season, and whether we could legitimately talk playoffs for the expansion Lions.