Chicoutimi Saguenéens and Baie-Comeau Drakkar met in the QMJHL on 6 September 2026, and the hosts ran out 7-1 winners at home. It was a result that settled questions nobody had asked yet, given the Drakkar had not played a single game in the standings before this one.
By then, the Saguenéens had already tasted defeat in four straight games — they'd lost 3-4 to Drakkar just yesterday, and 2-8 to them on 23 August. To be fair, they'd also beaten them 3-2 on 22 August, so the relationship between these sides had been anything but one-sided.
We'd called for a home victory with 64 per cent confidence, and the result vindicated that call. When a team has been on the wrong end of scores like 1-4 and 2-3 in consecutive matches, a seven-goal margin suggests they finally found their bearings.
The Drakkar came into this having won their last outing 4-3 against Saguenéens, so they'd shown they could compete. But today they gave nothing away in terms of structure and found no answer to a Saguenéens side that switched to a more direct approach.
As for the standings, the Saguenéens remain tenth with four games and zero points — another loss extends that run. The Drakkar sit ninth, though with zero games and zero points, the table says nothing yet about where either side truly belongs.
What matters here is not the position but the pattern. Saguenéens have hit a wall of defeats, and this result might be the wall they needed to break through.