Briançon Alpes Provence Hockey Club

Briançon wins Coupe de France

In a great atmosphere as usual at Paris Bercy, in front of 13.000 spectators, Briançon wins its second Coupe de France beating 2-1 Angers with two power play goals by Marc Andrè Bernier at 14:43 and Toby Lafrance at 23:13. Brian Henderson scored the only Angers goal at 26:49. Briançon goalie Ronan Quemener was elected MVP of the game.

French League Cup semifinals determined

Rouen, Grenoble, Angers and holders Briançon are the French Coupe de la Ligue Semifinalists. SemifinalsRouen - Grenoble and Briançon - Angers are scheduled for 27 November and 04 December. Follow Coupe de la Ligue with complete boxscores here

Leagues awards in France

Amazing Dijon Les Ducs campaign (2nd places in regular season behind Rouen and victory on Coupe de France) reflectes on Sport newspaper "L'Equipe" votation for season's MVP: Dijon captain Canadian Martin Gascon,30, and his teammate Anthony Guttig,23, were elected respectively Best Foreign and Best French Player in annual votation among sport medias.  Gascon finishes regular season as League Top Scorer. Briançon 21 years-old Spanish goalie Ander Alcaine was elected rookie of the year. Alcaine, arrived in Briançon Diables Rouges from FC Barcelona, preceded Dijon's Nicolas Ritz and Rouen's Anthony Rech

Briançon won French League Cup

In a sold out Meribel arena, Briançon won French Coupe de la Ligue beating 4-1 Morzine Avoriaz. For the first time since start of competition in 2006-07 there is a champion different from Rouen (two title) or Grenoble (three title)

Briançon - Morzine-Avoriaz 4:1 (1:1, 1:0, 2:0)
1:0 - 00.32 Jean François Caudron (Vanoosten, Castonguay)
1:1 - 18.26 Marko Makinen (Smyth, Shields) PP2
2:1 - 37.30 Braden Walls (Vanoosten, Castonguay) PP1
3:1 - 50.57 Edo Terglav (Bernier, Perez)
4:1 - 58.09 Steven Vanoosten (Bernier) PP1 EN
PIM: 8x2 - 7x2 Att: 2500 (sold out)