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HALIFAX - Nikolaj Ehlers had two goals and two assists and Jonathan Drouin had four assists as the Halifax Mooseheads downed the visiting Gatineau Olympiques 6-2 on Saturday in Quebec Major Junior Hockey League playoff action. Drouin currently leads the playoffs in scoring with six goals and 19 points in six outings while Ehlers is second with six goals and 16 points in six games. Philippe Gadoury, Andrew Shewfelt, Matt Murphy and MacKenzee Weegar also scored for the Mooseheads, who lead the second-round series 2-0. Zachary Fucale made 25 saves for the win. Martin Reway and Vincent Dunn each had a goal and an assist for the Olympiques and Robert Steeves stopped 25-of-31 shots in defeat. --- DRAKKAR 5 HUSKIES 2 BAIE-COMEAU, Que. -- Maxime St-Cyr had a pair of goals as the Drakkar beat Rouyn-Noranda to go up 2-0 in their second-round matchup. Valentin Zykov had a goal and an assist for Baie-Comeau while Alec Jon Banville and Frederic Gamelin had the others. Philippe Cadorette made 20 saves for the Drakkar. Jack Nevins and Marcus Power supplied the scoring for the Huskies as Alexandre Belanger stopped 42-of-46 shots, including a Jeremy Gregoire penalty shot at 15:44 of the third period. --- FOREURS 4 VOLTIGEURS 3 (OT) VAL-DOR, Que. -- Louick Marcotte scored 2:04 into overtime as the Foreurs took Game 2 to even their second-round clash with Drummondville at a game apiece. Anthony Richard, Anthony Beauregard and Olivier Galipeau also scored for Val-dOr and Antoine Bibeau made 34 saves for the win. Olivier Caouette forced overtime for the Voltigeurs with a goal at 19:19 of the third period while Joey Ratelle and Matthew Boudens had the others. Drummondvilles Louis-Phillip Guindon stopped 33-of-37 shots in defeat. Jared Dudley Jersey . Rinehart joins safety Darrell Stuckey and linebacker Donald Butler as potential unrestricted free agents who are remaining with the team. Caris LeVert Jersey . 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This is a story of transition. Janssen, an impending free agent, has struggled in the second half of the season and likely is on his way out of Toronto. Sanchez is the organizations priority. Hes the first-round draft pick. Hes the one who throws a fastball, free and easy, in the 97-99 miles per hour range. Hes a big part of the future. Hes a big part of the present. If all goes well, one day the outgoing 22-year-old will be a commanding presence in the clubhouse. Right now, Sanchez is a respectful, quiet rookie who will pitch when hes told and say precious little. “When that phone rings and they tell me to get hot, thats what I do,” said Sanchez. On Wednesday night, a 7-4 win in Tampa Bay, Sanchez, not Janssen, closed the game. Sanchez had thrown on Tuesday night. Hed begun warming in the seventh inning, when the score was 7-2, and so he would be used based on the strategy the club is employing to maximize his innings. Sanchez can throw in back-to-back games, but not beyond, and, if he loosens up, it counts as a work day. The save situation emerged when, with Sanchez warming for a second time in the eighth, Dustin McGowan gave up a two-run home run to Evan Longoria to cut the Toronto lead to three runs. Its the save situation that complicated matters. If Sanchez wraps up a five-run win, theres no discussion. If Sanchez, not McGowan, is used in the eighth, the issue also is avoided regardless of the eventual result. Again, Sanchez will pitch when asked. “Thats my job is to go out there; however many outs that is, if its six outs, if its nine outs,” said Sanchez. “Whatever this team needs from me, Im going to go out there and work hard to do what I need to do and get the job done.” Its no secret that while theres no strict limit on Sanchezs innings, he is being closely watched. To date, Sanchez has thrown 124 innings (23 2/3 in the big leagues, 100 1/3 at two minor league stops). This is why hes in the bullpen. Entering next year, Sanchez hopes he gets a chance at cracking the starting rotation. “Going into spring training (2015), they told me I was going to be a starter,” said Sanchez. “The only reason why I got pushed to the bullpen was for a number of things: I was on an innings limit this year and this gave me a chance to pitch throughout the year. They kind of sat me down and told me, hey, if yyou were to get called up it would probably be out of the ‘pen because the guys weve had in the rotation have been nothing but awesome this whole year.dddddddddddd” VALENCIA IMPRESSING By the time this season comes to an end, Brett Lawrie will have appeared in about 62 per cent of Blue Jays games since the start of the 2012 season, his first full year in the big leagues. Danny Valencia, acquired from the Kansas City Royals in late July, has been one of the players who has stepped in for Lawrie in that other 38 per cent of games. “If he turns out to be a good player for us, which hes doing and he can help us, it might open up a spot for him,” said manager John Gibbons. “It might answer a question.” What kind of question would Valencia answer? “If hes a regular on this team or not,” said Gibbons. Where would he play? “I dont know. Maybe hes the third baseman, Bretts the second baseman. Who knows?” said Gibbons. Gibbons made it clear no decision has been made on how next years infield will be configured, but the Blue Jays must address the middle infield in the offseason. Jose Reyes is penciled in at shortstop, despite having his share of defensive difficulties this season. Second base has remained a position of need for the ball club since it entered camp with Ryan Goins as the starter and demoted him to Triple-A Buffalo just one month into the season. Its difficult to imagine Valencia being an everyday player unless he vastly improves his splits. He has a career .625 OPS against right-handed pitching while posting a .875 OPS versus lefties. CHALLENGING THE CHALLENGE Manager John Gibbons threw up a prayer challenge on a fielders choice ground out in the 10th inning of Thursdays 1-0 win in Tampa Bay. The called was confirmed, Kevin Kiermaier was safe at first base and the Blue Jays didnt get the double play. However, after the challenge was concluded, Rays manager Joe Maddon emerged and engaged in a brief, but heated, conversation with home plate umpire Lance Barksdale. Maddon, apparently, was upset that Gibbons challenged the play without going all the way out to second base umpire Gary Cedarstrom. In a situation when he knows hes going to challenge, Gibbons doesnt see the need to trek any farther than a few steps from the dugout. “Ive done that a few times this year and theyve mentioned to me, hey, go out to the base,” said Gibbons. “I got close to the line, I think. If theyre going to complain all the time about the game taking too long, thats a way to speed it up.” Maddons pleas went ignored and the game with the next hitter later when Casey Janssen got Ben Zobrist to fly out to leftfield. ' ' '