Drummondville Voltigeurs' Anthony Brodeur makes 54 saves, including 33 in third period and OT: Thursday's 3 Stars

No. 1 star: Anthony Brodeur, Drummondville Voltigeurs (QMJHL)

While Martin Brodeur is mulling his future, his puck-stopping sons are having solid weeks. The one Brodeur who is still in the New Jersey Devils system continued his strong start with the Drummondville Voltigeurs by making 54 saves against the Halifax Mooseheads in a 3-2 road shootout loss.

Anthony Brodeur, like his father, also changed teams this season after falling out favour with with the Gatineau Olympiques (who now have overage Francois Brassard holding down the fort). The 19-year-old played the best 20 minutes of his season and a half in the Q during the third period when the Voltigeurs, playing on back-to-back nights, wore down. The Mooseheads and superstar Nikolaj Ehlers (2G, +1) took 33 shots on goal over the third period and overtime and somehow couldn't score.

Philippe Gadoury converted in the third round of the shootout and Cavan Fitzgerald capitalized in the fifth to get the Mooseheads the full result. The only reason the game reached that point was Brodeur.

Ehlers, the Winnipeg Jets first-rounder, had 12 shots on net.

No. 2 star: Andrew Mangiapane, Barrie Colts (OHL)

Mangiapane was clutch for the Colts with a third-period tying goal and the only conversion of the breakaway contest during a 2-1 shootout win against the North Bay Battalion that was permeated with a playoff-like atmosphere. The Colts, who moved four points up on the Battalion for the No. 2 playoff seed in the OHL's Eastern Conference, were bedevilled by Jake Smith (28 saves) throughout the night at Memorial Gardens. With 10:13 left, though, Ottawa Senators signing Ben Harpur set up Mangiapane, the OHL's sixth-leading scorer, who solved Smith to force overtime.

The Colts and goalie Mackenzie Blackwood (35 saves) weathered a 4-on-3 disadvantage in overtime. In the first round of the shootout, Mangiapane sped in on Smith, forced him into a split and scored glove side. Blackwood turned back all three Battalion shooters.

Colts star Kevin Labanc's 25-game point streak was snapped, but that probably wasn't too important to Barrie.

No. 3 star: Michael McNiven, Owen Sound Attack (OHL)

The 17-year-old goalie stopped 39-of-40 shots to back the Attack to a 3-1 win over the Peterborough Petes in the first leg of a Eastern Conference road trip. It was a one-goal margin in the second period when McNiven, who would lead the OHL in average and save percentage if he had played enough minutes to qualify, slid right to rob Greg Betzold on a partial break. Detroit Red Wings prospect Zach Nastasiuk (1G-2A, +2) set up the 2-0 goal moments later, keeping the Attack on cruise control.

Honourable mention: Anthony Stefano, Windsor Spitfires (OHL)

Stefano (2G-1A, +2) had a big night in his fourth game with the Spitfires, who pulled away from cellar-dwelling Sudbury 4-1. The 18-year-old snapped in his first of the night just 81 seconds after the Wolves had opened the scoring. The 1-1 deadlock persisted until 11:01 of the third, when overage Lucas Venuto (1G-2A, +3) and 16-year-old Logan Brown (1A, +3) worked to set up Stefano for the game-winner. Stefano, a Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., native who previously played in Peterborough, returned the favour by feeding Venuto for the clincher with fewer than five minutes to play.

Potent notables — NHL first-round hopeful Pavel Zacha (2G, +1) scored two third-period goals to give Sarnia a regulation tie in a 3-2 overtime loss to the Kitchener Rangers.

Neate Sager is a writer for Yahoo! Canada Sports. Follow him on Twitter @neatebuzzthenet.