Trois-Rivières skates away with 3-1 win in Game 4

TROIS-RIVIÈRES, Quebec – The Trois-Rivières Lions defeated the Toledo Walleye 3-1 in Game 4 of the 2025 Kelly Cup Finals on Friday in front of a standing-room only crowd of 4,640 fans at Colisée Vidéotron. With the win, the Lions take a 3 games to 1 lead in the series.

Box Score

For the fourth consecutive game, and the 18th time in its 20 postseason contests, Trois-Rivières scored first. Jacob Paquette gathered in a pass from Alex Beaucage at the blue line, skated to the top of the left-wing circle and beat Jan Bednar for his first goal of the playoffs 7:32 into the second period.

Toledo pulled even at 17:12 when Brandon Hawkins redirected a Tyler Spezia shot past Luke Cavallin for his sixth postseason goal.

The Lions regained the lead 10:45 into the third period when Vincent Sevigny’s long-range shot from the left point eluded Bednar’s reach for his second goal of the playoffs.

Logan Nijhoff added an empty-net tally at 19:41 to set the final score.

Game 5 of the series is set for Saturday at 3 p.m. ET from Colisée Vidéotron. Catch all of the action live by tuning into FloHockey.

2025 Kelly Cup Finals
Game 1 –Trois-Rivières 1 at TOLEDO 3
Game 2 – TROIS-RIVIÈRES 5 at Toledo 1
Game 3 – Toledo 1 at TROIS-RIVIÈRES 3
Game 4 – Toledo 1 at TROIS-RIVIÈRES 3
Game 5 – Saturday, June 7 at 3:00 p.m. ET at Trois-Rivières
Game 6 – Tuesday, June 10 at 7:15 p.m. ET at Toledo (If Necessary)
Game 7 – Thursday, June 12 at 7:15 p.m. ET at Toledo (If Necessary)