You don't often see a fifth round pick targeted as a team's best player by the opposition. But on a line that boasted 64th overall selection Dennis Yan, it was 125th overall draftee Dmytro Timashov who took the nightly Gatineau Olympiques punishment as his Shawinigan Cataractes paid a visit to the Robert Guertin Centre on Thursday night.
The Olympiques are a tough team to play against, playing out of a rink whose deafening music is matched by an aggressive crowd. And without Cataractes captain and first round pick Anthony Beauvillier in the lineup, it was the team's newest addition, a 5-9 Swede drafted by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the later rounds of the 2015 NHL Draft despite being named QMJHL Rookie of the Year, who received all of that energy from the home team.