Justin Robidas and Alexandre Doucet have known each other since the Peewee ranks. They grew up together and shared the highs and lows of their junior careers with the Val-d’Or Foreurs. Separated since December, the two great friends must now give up their friendship in order to be one of the two who will lift the Gilles Courteau trophy at the end of the final.
The two Sherbrooke natives also won the Jimmy-Ferrari Cup with the Cantonniers de Magog in 2019, playing along the same lines. The following season they made it into the junior class with the Val-d’Or Foreurs and experienced, among other things, the defeat in the final of the President’s Cup 2021.
Separate ways
Being at the end of a cycle, the Foreurs decided to get rid of their two veterans during the holiday season. Doucet landed in Halifax while Robidas packed his bags for Quebec.
“Our pension families were neighbors in Val-d’Or and we built something solid. We call and text almost every two to three days. “It’s a beautiful relationship that we have,” Robidas said before the start of the finals series.
However, this communication has not been the same since the start of the finals. The two friends called each other after the Mooseheads ended their streak against the Sherbrooke Phoenix.
“I told him good luck and then I will leave my cell for a while. We let it be. It’s something special to play against him. At least there is one of the two who will win the cup this summer,” adds Robidas.
“We usually talk a little bit more about ourselves and our teams, but we’re trying to stay in the dark here,” added Doucet, who scored four points in the Mooseheads’ Game 2 win on SATURDAY. We’ll remain friends, but we’ll be a little less friends for a week or two.
No friends!
Because the two competitors firmly believe in the famous sentence that says that there are no friends on the ice!
“I’m sure I’ll beat him even more!” It’s the final. Both want to win. It’s the little details that might make the difference,” says Doucet.
“I’ll try to beat him, but he’s not bad,” jokes Robidas, who concedes four inches and ten pounds to his friend. In summer we challenge ourselves a lot and I don’t think we will give ourselves a chance.
The final series was tied 1-1 and will now move to Halifax for games 3 and 4 on Tuesday and Wednesday.